Lockheed CL-915

What was its intended role?

I've had a quick look on the net and looked in Tony Buttlers American Secret Projects but the number was not listed - was it a real project?

Fantastic job as always - I have one of your Ardvaark Killers as my PC background.

Regards.
 
According to "Lockheed's SKUNK WORKS,The First Fifty Years,The Official History by Jay Miller",
1.CL-915 series(CL-915,CL-915-1 to CL-915-8) were designed before CL-1200.
2.High maneuverable aircraft.
3.Easy of maintenance.
4.Top speed Mach1.4 to 2.0
5.MTOW 15ton
Jozef! How about these explanations?
 
blackkite said:
According to "Lockheed's SKUNK WORKS,The First Fifty Years,The Official History by Jay Miller",
1.CL-915 series(CL-915,CL-915-1 to CL-915-8) were designed before CL-1200.
2.High maneuverable aircraft.
3.Easy of maintenance.
4.Top speed Mach1.4 to 2.0
5.MTOW 15ton
Jozef! How about these explanations?
Click to expand...

Has this book been reprinted as Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works: The Official History (Revised Edition) by Jay Miller?

http://www.amazon.com/Lockheed-Martins-Skunk-Works-Official/dp/1857800370/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247770353&sr=1-3

Double checking before I order. ;D
 
For those who don't have the original printing of this wonderful book, I do have it somewhere and could retrieve some info from there some time... in August, when I'm back from holiday (will be away for a fortnight starting tomorrow).
 
A bit off-topic but...I've always wanted to be a novel writer, but also to write books about aviation too, and just as important to preserve aviation books that have been out-of-print and fallen into obscurity. If anyone has any ideas, but in the mean time, ah well I guess....
 
Hi! Triton. Yes this book!! My book was printed in 1993.(First published.)
This is really wonderful book. Jay Miller's work is super as usual.
 
Matej said:
Now I started to wonder, if my copy is original or revised edition... The copyright year is 1993 so?
Click to expand...

I found a 1996 edition on Amazon:

# Paperback: 216 pages
# Publisher: Voyageur Pr; Rev edition (March 1996)
# ISBN-10: 1857800168
# ISBN-13: 978-1857800166

http://www.amazon.com/Lockheed-Martins-Skunk-Works-Official/dp/1857800168/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247785949&sr=1-7
 
This plane looks like the Lockheed 'Battlecruiser' design submitted to the early ATF RFI for concept definition. It was a 115 foot long, 52.7 foot span, ~110,000 lbs evolved A-12 fighter concept for over Mach 2 and 50,000 feet operation (HI-HI).
 
As always, the work is beautiful. I am always in awe of your talent.

I will show my ignorance, in that I teach biomedical rather than aeronautical engineering. But, what function would the (stationary ?) canards serve in conjunction with the large "leading edge root extensions?"
 
On my model (and I hope on simple source sketch, too) canards are not stationary
 
blackkite said:
According to "Lockheed's SKUNK WORKS,The First Fifty Years,The Official History by Jay Miller",
1.CL-915 series(CL-915,CL-915-1 to CL-915-8) were designed before CL-1200.
2.High maneuverable aircraft.
3.Easy of maintenance.
4.Top speed Mach1.4 to 2.0
5.MTOW 15ton
Jozef! How about these explanations?
Click to expand...

Miller states that:
Virtually all of these were configured to meet the somewhat ill-defined parameters that had been established for the forthcoming lightweight fighter.
Click to expand...

This would place the CL-915 series in the early to late 1960s.
 
Abraham Gubler,

The "Battlecruiser" concept was probably the CL-1980 or CL-2016
 
KJ_Lesnick said:
The "Battlecruiser" concept was probably the CL-1980 or CL-2016
Click to expand...

The C-1980 was a <60 foot long, ~25,000 lb aircraft where the Lockheed ATF RFP 'Battlecruiser' was >110 foot long, >100,000 lb aircraft. The CL-2016 is close but still a little bit under-developed to be the 'Battlecruiser'.

All this was explained earlier on this thread:

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=4758.0
 
and ortho views
 

Attachments

  • CL915_OrthoFront.jpg
    CL915_OrthoFront.jpg
    90.9 KB · Views: 668
  • CL915_OrthoRight.jpg
    CL915_OrthoRight.jpg
    147.2 KB · Views: 696
  • CL915_OrthoTop.jpg
    CL915_OrthoTop.jpg
    255.7 KB · Views: 611
All of this is extremely impressive. Thanks for sharing your amazing talent!
 
Is the Bald Eagle's head and star field color scheme based on a real squadron or demonstrator aircraft? Or is this artistic license?
 
royabulgaf said:
does anyone have dimensions for this beauty?
Click to expand...

The descendant of the Lockheed CL-915 was the Lockheed CL-1980 after Lockheed lost the follow-on prototype development and testing phase of the Light Weight Fighter (LWF) competition to General Dynamics and Northrop. According to Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works: The Official History by Jay Miller, the CL-1980 design was introduced in 1973. It was offered in a one and two seat configuration to the United States Navy, but the Navy at the time was more interested in the continued production of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. Miller does not explain the model of the CL-1980 in United States Air Force markings or when/or if it was offered for sale to the US Air Force. It seems too early to be a consideration for the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition.

The exterior dimensions of the Lockheed CL-915 should match the single seat Lockheed CL-1980.
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4758.msg37599.html#msg37599
 
Jay Miller would be extremely impressed with your artwork. It's TOP GUN!

Steve
 
Has anyone discovered the true proposed mission of CL-915? LRI, MRI, FX, ATF?...... -SP
 
Drawings of CL-915 used for 3D model are from Jay Miller book "Lockheed's Skunk Works 50th Anniversary" ( I have Czech version), page 205 but only with short info. No program is clear
 
Perhaps it was related to the Airborne Radar Location and Strike System (ALSS)?
 

Similar threads

Please donate to support the forum.

Back
Top Bottom