Better Than The SR-71 - The Never Built Convair Kingfish, FISH and Super Hustler

While many viewers might know of the SR-71 Blackbird - few know about its rival secret project, the Convair Kingfish - a spy plane that could fly Mach 3.2 at over 90,000 feet. Convair was working on designs that could fly faster and higher than the Blackbird, beat anything the Russians threw at it, and could even be used to deploy then undeveloped supersonic nuclear weapons. Let’s jump into this black ops never-built project. The SR-71 blackbird has been hailed as an incredible machine that changed the world of international strategic reconnaissance forever - operating deep behind enemy lines, this aircraft didn’t have to worry about being shot down - it simply accelerated away from the threat at Mach 3.2 and 85,000 feet until it reached friendly airspace. But this legendary era almost didn’t happen, and back in the late 50s, the flip of a coin could have given us a very different aircraft. Our story begins in 1956, with the very first deployment of the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane. This