GoPro POV: SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Experience a first-person flight aboard the legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Departing Beale Air Force Base on a routine high-altitude reconnaissance sortie. This first-person cockpit footage captures a standard operational flight profile of the SR-71 Blackbird, conducted in controlled airspace and outside of any combat operations. Recorded during an era when missions like this were rarely discussed and never seen, the footage offers a rare perspective from inside the