In 2018, I visited Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento ... And, while a two-seat U-2 cockpit is partially pressurized - to 29,000 feet, the height of Mt. Everest - that altitude isn’t low ...

The SR-72, known as the "Son of Blackbird," is poised to succeed the SR-71 Blackbird, one of the fastest surveillance planes ...

The U.S. Air Force is likely developing the SR-72, known as the “Son of Blackbird,” to carry on the SR-71’s legacy of ...

There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake ...