Lockheed's legendary SR-71 may hold the record for being the fastest production jet in history, but more than a year before the first Blackbird took flight, President Lyndon Johnson was already revealing the YF-12 to the world... An aircraft that promised to be the fastest intercept fighter the world has ever seen.

Let's talk about what the F-12 could have been, and why revealing it was actually part of a broader ploy to keep the A-12 and SR-71 under wraps.

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