Winning the ATF by Sherman N. Mullin - Development of the F-22

[Mark Nankivil]

Hi All -

Thought you might find this read of interest:
http://www.afa.org/mitchell/reports/MP9_ATF_0612.pdf Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[flateric]

cool find! thanks

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

A nice document, thanks for the link.

 

[flateric]

Since Lockheed management had a very strong historic dislike of Northrop, we had no interest in them.

Nonetheless, in early 1986, Heppe and I had a lengthy teaming discussion with
McDonnell Aircraft President Donald Malvern and the McDonnell Vice President for
ATF, J. J. Burns. Again, McDonnell was fairly cocky and largely noncommittal. At the
end of the meeting, however, Malvern did say: “Only one thing is certain: We will
never team with Northrop.” Six months later, McDonnell and Northrop teamed on
the F-23 ATF program, with Northrop as prime.

;D ;D ;D


we need the same from Thomas Rooney

 

[Stargazer]

Very interesting. Reminds me now that there has never been (to the best of my knowledge) any association of Lockheed and Northrop on any known project...

 

[GTX]

Very interesting. Reminds me now that there has never been (to the best of my knowledge) any association of Lockheed and Northrop on any known project...

Except F-35...

 

[quellish]

Very interesting. Reminds me now that there has never been (to the best of my knowledge) any association of Lockheed and Northrop on any known project...

X-47B has heavy Lockheed involvement.

 

[Stargazer]

Very interesting. Reminds me now that there has never been (to the best of my knowledge) any association of Lockheed and Northrop on any known project...

X-47B has heavy Lockheed involvement.

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of that.