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SR-71: The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, the World’s Highest, Fastest Plane by Col. Richard H. Graham, USAF (Ret.), Zenith Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 2013, $35 Former SR-71 pilot Rich Graham has delivered a robust, coffee-table overview of the fabled SR-71 and the closely related A-12 and YF-12—collectively dubbed the Blackbird family. As the title …
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