| Tom Alison | SR-71 pilot and Det-1 Commander | |
| Blair Bozek | SR-71 RSO; one of the last 8 US Air Force blackbird crews | |
| Donn Byrnes | SR-71 flight test engineer and co-author of Blackbird Rising | |
| Buz Carpenter | SR-71 pilot | |
| Rich Graham | SR-71 pilot, Squadron Commander, Wing Commander and author of SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story | |
| Jim Greenwood | SR-71 pilot; one of the last 8 US Air Force blackbird crews | |
| Bill Groninger | SR-71 pilot | |
| Mort Jarvis | SR-71 RSO | |
| Joe Kinego | SR-71 pilot, Squadron Commander, and Air Force Wing Commander | |
| Curt Osterheld | SR-71 RSO who appeared in SR-71 Blackbird: The Secret Vigil; worked in the Pentagon during the blackbird's 1990 retirement | |
| Lou Schalk | Lockheed test pilot; first person to fly any blackbird | |
| Jim Shelton | SR-71 pilot and squadron commander | |
| Doug Soifer | SR-71 RSO; flew 11.5-hour mission in 1987 | |
| Frank Stampf | SR-71 RSO | |
| John Storrie | SR-71 pilot and Wing Commander; retired Maj. General; gave Sen. Barry Goldwater his check ride in the SR-71 | |
| BC Thomas | SR-71 pilot; logged more hours than any other blackbird pilot | |
| Tom Veltri | SR-71 RSO; worked in the Pentagon during the blackbird's 1990 retirement | |
| Dewain Vick | SR-71 RSO; he and Tom Estes received the Harman and Mackay trophies in 1971 for their endurance flight in 968 | |
| Ed Yeilding | SR-71 pilot; he and JT Vida flew the coast-to-coast speed record run in 1990. |
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