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Well it all started with model 1600 in 1973. Deleting an engine wasn't a bad idea, you lower the operation costs by a third (actually less, let's say 20 per cent). MDD did that very same design studies more than once with DC-10 derivatives. The raison d'etre of the threes was actually to permit...

From "Flying" August 1945

Lockheed produced several initial designs leading to the Hummingbird. One of them was the GL-224-2 concept. Is there anyone who can help with a decent three view drawing or an other illustration about? The 'X' plane book No.5 -HPM Publications haves an illustration but in my copy the drawing...

Screen capture with rare view of YF-22NX (second, PW F-119 equipped prototype) with nose cone removed, towed from hangar after cosmetiс restoration of airframe, damaged by PIO crash in April 1992.

I always do that! Again, with the pictures...

I was wondering if anybody knows anything more about the NATF & pre-NATF Tomcat replacement proposals.The only one i know about is the Lockheed swing-wing NATF proposal that is based on the F-22.I've read that they chose swing-wings because it was the easiest way to offer F-22 performance and to...

BSP4 mentions proposals for air-launched versions of the Polaris and Pershing missiles for use on RAF Vulcans, does anyone have any performance estimates for these and how would they have compared to Skybolt?

I've missed this before. Just noticed a reference to a Westinghouse "KEMPSTER A" device mounted on A-12 131 or tests, which generated an electron cloud to reduce radar reflections.

<...A study was conducted to determinehhe impact of integrated flight, inlet, and engine control system architectures on system effectiveness (safety, mission reliability, maintainability, dispatchability, and availability) and life cycle cost (LCC). The aircraft is a modified Lockheed YF-12...

"Clearly, ATF was going to be superstealth and not a cousin of YF-12 or SR-71," explains Osborne. "I stopped the YF-12 derivative effort, and we started working on an F-117 derivative for ATF." The design submitted in the Lockheed proposal looked like a larger and elongated F-117 with some...

AlAA 90-2151 Airframe/Propulsion Integration of Supersonic Cruise Vehicles J. Anderson Lockheed Advanced Development Projects Burbank, CA "...A system performance study was conducted by the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects (ADP) organization under a subcontract to Pratt & Whitney in...

Do you mean this design ? This picture was shown on more than one site in the net, but IIRC in the FlugRevue, it was said, that it's a Sukhoi project ... ???

Looking for information on the Lockheed Twister high mobilty vehicle. I found this —link broken, removed — Anything further would be gratefully recieved. TIA, Robunos P.S. How do I make URLs clickable?

Hi, Did we speak about that Lockheed VTOL project before ?

Just wondering if anyone knows what the tested maximum altitude and speed of the A-12/SR71 was? I contacted the USAF recently and they simply stuck to the published figures saying it flew at 85,000ft and could reach Mach 3.3. This doesn't seem to make sense as variants of the F-4, F-104 and...

I'm looking for information about a little-publicized US program in the mid-to-late 1980s for an intercontinental cruise missile. It was intended to have a 6000 nm range, Lockheed, Boeing, and General Dynamics were the candidate contractors, and three designs (subsonic, supersonic, and...

I asked on the warships1 board whether the USAF had looked at a tanker version of the DC-8 in case there were problems with the KC135 and got a reply back saying that Lockheed had proposed a jet tanker that was apparently the favourite at one time. The USAF bought the KC-135 purely as a...

A-12 press pack, courtesy of flateric

Lockheed SR-71/YF-12 Blackbirds Excellent volume in the Warbird Tech series, good solid information from a good author. Recommended. ****

Blackbird: Beyond the Secret Missions A classic book, full of fascinating details about the design and operations of the A-12, YF-12 and SR-71, with good material on peripheral matters like Soviet MiG-25 and MiG-31 and Swedish JA-37 interceptions. <a...