Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More ‘We Broke the Limits’: The SR-71 Blackbird Was Flying a Mile Every 1.6 Seconds in a ‘Wartime Emergency’ On April 15, 1986, during Operation El Dorado Canyon, Maj. Brian Shul and RSO Maj. Walter Watson flew SR-71 #64-17960 over Libya on a... Stephen Silver19 minutes ago