Yep.

Something about the posts above this one bothered me and that was the claims this craft could outrun missiles. No plane can outrun missiles! The inclusion of a pilot into said plane limits the acceleration force that can be archived as the human becomes the threshold. Missiles do not have such a limitation, having no pilot, and can reach accelerations far greater then any plane. This has always been the way, even in the cold war where missiles and planes where a bit slower then today standards.

For example, lets use the S-300, cold world version. The maximum speed of the earlier versions of this missile was 1,698.752 meters per second, they have only gotten faster since then but we are focusing on the cold war as I mentioned. The maximum speed of the blackbird was 1,088.928 meters per second which is a mind boggling speed for a human to move. Sadly, a rough 600 or so meters slower then the missile in question.

Hence the missile out runs the jet, every time!

Now, I do believe they where meaning to refer to the fact that the extremely high altitude and the tiny radar shadow would mean the Blackbird would be long gone before the missile could be launched. After all, when it comes to SAM sites your only option is to be long gone before the operator knew you where there... aka, the very same stealth technology which the blackbird excelled in. It is one of the beautiful things about this plane, actually, how much they went to this extreme with technology that is now half a century out of date to give it such a tiny radar shadow that it would be difficult to near impossible to identify. Maybe the biggest reason why I love it still, they knew that stealth was the way to go... just as you said.

Sadly my issue still is with the loose claims of 'out running missiles,' as it will always lead to a communication error when someone hears it. Those words, out ran, produce an image of the plane being able to move faster then the missile. So I say to those who use the word out run in this situation: please be a little more definitive with how you are using the English language to ensure no errors in communications occur. In fact, use the word out ranged because that is what you are really talking about:

That the blackbird would be out of the missiles range before the missile operator could identify the target and launch.