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The Lockheed Martin SR-72, colloquially referred to as "Son of Blackbird", [1] is an American hypersonic UAV concept intended for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) proposed privately in 2013 by Lockheed Martin as a successor to the retired Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. In 2018, company executives said an SR-72 test vehicle could ...
Lockheed Martin SR-72, a proposed hypersonic airplane under development by Lockheed Martin State Route 72, several highways numbered 72 in the US Topics referred to by the same term
This is a list of aircraft produced or proposed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from its founding as the Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1926 to its merging with Martin Marietta to form the Lockheed Martin Corporation in 1995. Ordered by model number, Lockheed gave most of its aircraft astronomical names, from the first Vega to the C-5 Galaxy.
The Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most recognizable aircraft designs in history. Few other planes have captured the public's attention and imagination in quite the same way as the ...
SR-71A was the main production variant. SR-71B was a trainer variant. [187] SR-71C was a hybrid trainer [188] aircraft composed of the rear fuselage of the first YF-12A (S/N 60-6934) and the forward fuselage from an SR-71 static test unit. The YF-12 had been wrecked in a 1966 landing accident.
LASRE was a small, half-span model of the X-33's lifting body with eight thrust cells of an aerospike engine, rotated 90 degrees and mounted on the back of a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, to operate like a kind of "flying wind tunnel." The experiment focused on determining how a reusable launch vehicle's engine plume would affect the ...
A pilot in a U-2 cockpit in 2010 at 70,000 ft wearing a pressure suit similar to that used in the Lockheed SR-71. Not all U-2 incidents were so benign, with three fatal accidents in 1956 alone. The first was on 15 May 1956, when the pilot stalled the aircraft during a post-takeoff maneuver that was intended to drop off the wingtip outrigger wheels.
A Martin 4-0-4 painted to represent the prototype Martin 4-0-4, a converted Martin 2-0-2. The Glenn L. Martin Aviation Museum was founded in 1990. [2] As part of preparations for the nascent museum, two RB-57s were acquired from the Aberdeen Proving Ground, where they had been used as targets. After an initial attempt was postponed due to fog ...