This document has already been referenced in this forum, but I will include the link anyway because it is a very concise summary of the Air Force's search for a truly new advanced fighter:
Lyons, Major Robert P. Jr. (3 April 1986)
"The Search for an Advanced Fighter: A History from the XF-108...
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Hi,
in article about Lockheed projects in Luftfahrt 2/1983,there is a section about ring wing aircraft,they displayed some Lockheed Models and aircraft,I am not sure of all of those 5 drawings to Lockheed or not,some help please.
"Kelly" Johnson's concept of a carrier based A-12 for the US Navy.
Remember Kellys unwritten and non-official rule according to the book "Skunk Works" written by Ben Rich:
"Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. They don't know what the hell they want and will drive you up a wall...
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Hi everyone,remember the MRF(multi role fighter) program from the 90`s, the one canceled in 1993? Thanks to all of your pictures posted here in the forum, i build two years ago a model of one of the proposals for that program,the one from McDonnell Douglas which was one of my favorite designs,so...
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I recently acquired a copy of Aerofax "Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker" by Robert Hopkins III. In the book, he notes that Lockheed "won" the competition for the KC-135 though Air Research Development Command, with Lemay's concurrence, had already ordered 29 (followed by 88 more) of...
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Hi,
The Lockheed had old project called C-130J,it was developed
from C-130E with increase aileron and rudder chords,wider u/c
track,improved braking system and additional armoured protection;
do you have a drawing to it ?,(of course I know there was a new project
to lockheed in 1996 called...
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Of mild interest to those of us in the UK is that Space Cargo modified C-5C 80216 arrived at Mildenhall yesterday.
The aircraft (along with 80213) has been subject to a degree of interest over the years in connection with various projects, alleged Boscombe Down debris retrieval etc and rarely...
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Hi,
the Lockheed L-1449 was a redesigned version of Super Constellation
but had a block speed 70 mph faster than any aircraft of 1955.,it had
a new thin wing and powered by four P&W PT2 turboprops,many
other alternative engines was available...
Before they were canceled Lockheed recieved an order for 93 production F-12B LRIs to serve in the USAF Air Defense Command. I believe this photo from LM illustrates what a production F-12B would have looked like.
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Overscan: your satisfaction is very important to all of us! Attached is no. 53 of the (Qty. 91) Lockheed CL-1000 studies. Planform is clearly derived from other, then-operational Lockheed products. Please note this late 1960s project is unrelated to the 1942 L-1000, which was the turbojet...
Hi,
here is some aircraft and one airship fpr the Lockheed-Martin as VLST Very
Large Subsonic Transports aircraft,notice the Lockheed-Dornier one.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960023624_1996039479.pdf
My biggest question regarding the Lockheed Suntan program is why they bothered investigating hydrogen turbojets in the first place. The best advantage I can think of was the ability to achieve the desired speed and range with an airframe that was much lighter than anything else in its size...
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No further data apart from whats on the drawings (better version on my blog - http://up-ship.com/blog/). These precede, at least numerically, the CL-282, which was Lockheed's first official stab at the U-2. They look to be lighter-constructed than the U-2.
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