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The Lockheed YF-12 is an American Mach 3+ capable, high-altitude interceptor prototype, developed and manufactured by American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation. The interceptor was developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s as a potential replacement for the F-106 Delta Dart interceptor for the United States Air Force (USAF).
Crossing the extended runway centerline at an altitude of 50-70 meters, the commander began to level the right bank by turning left and also extended the landing gear. However, the Il-12 suddenly veered sharply to the left, lost speed, and entered a spin. At 05:44, it crashed into the ground with the right wing and engine at a 60° angle and ...
Y-12F: The latest development with almost everything redesigned: wider fuselage, new wings, retractable landing gear and more powerful PT6A-65B engines. [12] The Y-12F has higher cruise speed, longer range and can accommodate 19 passengers or 3x LD3 containers. [13] Design started in April 2005 and the maiden flight was on 29 December 2010. [14]
The Osprey aircraft crash that killed all eight service members on board last November off the coast of Japan was caused by “catastrophic failure” of a rotor gearbox and the pilot’s decision ...
The aircraft drifted left and left the runway, breaking off the landing gear. On 21 July 2010, Khabarovsk Avia Flight 9236, an An-12BK (RA-11376), went off the side of the runway on takeoff from Keperveyem Airport into a marsh, damaging the bottom of the fuselage and breaking off the landing gear before striking a barrier on the side of a helipad.
The YF-12 program was a limited production variant of the A-12. Lockheed convinced the U.S. Air Force that an aircraft based on the A-12 would provide a less costly alternative to the recently canceled North American Aviation XF-108, since much of the design and development work on the YF-12 had already been done and paid for. Thus, in 1960 the ...
Various ejection seats. In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency. . In most designs, the seat is propelled out of the aircraft by an explosive charge or rocket motor, carrying the pilot with
Lockheed's initial concept was a particularly large aircraft called CL-2016, nicknamed "battlecruiser" for its size, that resembled its SR-71/YF-12 with large delta wings and engines mounted in nacelles spaced away from the fuselage and would have had similarly high operating speed and altitude as a missile platform (or "missileer" per Lockheed).