Lockheed pre-ATF & ATF studies

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Doesn't seem to have been posted before?

Acquisition for the 21st Century: The F-22 Development Program - Michael D Williams

https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/139705/1999-03_Acquisition_21_Century.pdf (better colour scan)
https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/dashboard/searchResults/titleDetail/ADA421919.xhtml (poor scan)

 

[Dew]

from Lockheed Horizons #17 Feb '85


from Lockheed Horizons #18 Jun '85

from Lockheed Horizons #21 Sept '86

 

[Forest Green]

3rd from right on bottom row would seem to indicate LM didn't need to see the YF-23 in order to consider the butterfly tail and "trough" exhaust. So much for them "copying" the Yf-23s design.

The two right of it look like Tempest.

 

[Forest Green]

An image of a Lockheed YF-22A concept from the René Francillon Photo Archive at SDASM Archives.Source:

https://flic.kr/p/wU9Fdv

View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/20280853649/in/album-72157651530128190/

Serious aero question. Can such a design with the intakes inline, below and rear of the canards actually work well?

 

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine 1987.

 

[djfawcett]

One thing that is bothering me, was there once a Lockheed ATF design that looked almost like a mini SR-71? I can't remember where I saw it exactly. :-\

A little late, but you might be thinking of these. CL-1000-53

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

CL-1000 is for FX (1967-68)

 

[djfawcett]

CL-1000 is for FX (1967-68)

Hi, I did realize it was an FX design, but I thought it best fit the description by Fighterjock. Sorry for confusing anybody.

 

[hesham]

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-1-4613-8961-3_9.pdf

from
INVESTIGATION OF NON-SYMMETRIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL
NOZZLES INSTALLED IN TWIN-ENGINE TACTICAL AIRCRAFT
T. A. Sedgwick
Lockheed-California Co.
Burbank, California
1975

Study was conducted for the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory under Contract F33615-74-C-3051

 

[Orionblamblam]

Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, but this is probably the patent related to the 8-missile rotary launcher described in Lockheed's ATF proposal.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=svk3AAAAEBAJ

Anybody got a successful link to this?

 

[flateric]

Patent US4681013A

US4681013A - Rotary launcher system for an aircraft - Google Patents

The invention is a rotary launcher system for an aircraft having a weapon bay with an opening in communication with the exterior of the aircraft. The system comprises a plurality of doors which are mounted to the aircraft and movable from an open position to a closed position. In the closed...

patents.google.com

Patent US4637292A

US4637292A - Rotary launcher system for an aircraft - Google Patents

The invention is a rotary launcher system for an aircraft having a weapon bay with an opening in communication with the exterior of the aircraft. In detail, the system comprises a plurality of first doors mounted on the aircraft which are movable from an open position to a closed position...

patents.google.com

bonus Patent US4679751A

US4679751A - Weapon dispensing system for an aircraft - Google Patents

The invention is a weapon dispensing system for an aircraft. The system includes a weapon positioning assembly for positioning the weapon in a stored position and a release position. The weapon positioning assembly comprises a weapon support rack and a pair of fore and aft links having first and...

patents.google.com

 

[Orionblamblam]

Thanks. Sad when links get abandoned. Will nobody think of the links?

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

its best the mention the patent number in the post, that way if the URL changes we can find it again.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Two variants of the Cl-2016, from a current project.