Thomas’s interview is full of interesting nuggets, like how the SR-71's Mach 3 speeds, and the resulting air friction, heated the plane's windshield less than 4 feet from his face to an impressive 621 degrees Fahrenheit.

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The pilot, BC Thomas, details the meticulous detail that went into every mission, from the planning to flight stages.Thomas also reveals how U.S. President Ronald Reagan nearly opened fire on a North Korean missile battery that fired on a passing Blackbird. More than 30 years after its retirement from active service, the Lockheed SR-71’s hold on our imagination is still as powerful as ever. A large, matte-black, arrowhead-shaped airplane, the SR-71 looked like it was moving even when standing perfectly still. U.S. Air Force pilot BC Thomas was lucky enough to fly the “Blackbird,” which soared through the skies from 1968 until its retirement in 1990. In a new interview with the excellent aviation site Hush-Kit, Thomas lays out his experiences flying the world’s fastest aircraft. Thomas flew the SR-71 on missions over or near Asia and Europe, against Cold War adversaries including the Soviet Union and North Korea. Against the Soviet Union, Thomas's SR-71 spied on Soviet naval activities in the Murmansk region, monitoring the Soviet Atlantic fleet and gathering data the U.S. Navy would need if war broke out. Thomas also flew one particularly defiant mission over North Korea. That country had launched an SA-2 “Guideline” surface-to-air missile against a previous SR-71 overflight of its territory, reportedly enraging U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The Air Force launched a similar mission over the same spot, and Thomas had been informed that if the North Koreans attempted to shoot down a Blackbird again, it would trigger immediate retaliation, as an Air Force fighter jet would launch an air-to-ground missile against the offending missile battery.