Northrop A-9 AX Design Evolution

Regarding the A-X/N-308/Turbo-pusher, do we have any performance figures? Speed, altitude, endurance, agility, G limits, etc? I've seen a few pictures but not numbers.
 
Northrop YA-9 photographs on the Flickr stream of

Keith Svendsen​

("Retired USAF flight test engineer and test program manager.")

Most of them taken at Edwards Air Force Base in 1972.

Nice photos of cockpit and front panel also.

[Note: for those interested, Keith has also many photos of other hot aircraft like F-20 Tigershark, AFTI/F-16, F-16XL in his Flickr stream (a few of them also visible in Tony Landis book about F-16XL).]

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YA-9 - Northrop's AX Contender

Explore this photo album by Keith Svendsen on Flickr!
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Was it true that when the Su-25 was refered as the mirror image of the A-10 they were actually refering to the A-9? Something that has been bugging me for years. :confused:
 
bercr said:
Northrop YA-9A Cobra photo.
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The YA-9A never had any "popular" name at all.
Besides, "Cobra" was already actively in use for another Northrop product, the YF-17A.
 
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Plus there was already a Cobra on active duty anyways.

AH1 Cobra.

The military generally tries to avoid having two peaces o gear call the same name after the M1 fun.
 
I know that picture showing the first Northrop YA-9 prototype (S/N 71-1367) was taken in November 1998, so I wonder what the actual restauration status at Edwards AFB is today? Here another picture from April 2006.
According to Google Maps and Microsoft Bing, it and its wings are still hanging there around at the scrapyard at Edwards AFB.
Link (Google Maps):
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34°56'25.3"N 117°53'52.1"W

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fightingirish said:
According to Google Maps and Microsoft Bing, it and its wings are still hanging there around at the scrapyard museum outdoor storage yard at Edwards AFB.
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A/C 1 was originally on display at the Castle AFB museum; then later disassembled and relocated to Edwards.
A/C 2 was originally on display at the March Field museum and remains there today, albeit at the new museum location outside the fence.
 
zjz said:
Considering its age, I think the airframe looks to be in good condition .... no rust or whatsoever, maybe because of the dry weather?
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Yep, that part of California is a long way away from the ocean, so no salt air and very little humidity. It's why the big tank boneyard is in that part of California, and Davis-Mothan and Pima are in Arizona.
 

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