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  2. Flight (2012 film) - Wikipedia

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    The film stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board. Although hailed a hero, an investigation soon begins to cast the captain in a different light.

  3. Lockheed YF-12 - Wikipedia

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    A fourth YF-12 aircraft, the "YF-12C", was actually the second SR-71A (AF Ser. No. 61–7951). This SR-71A was re-designated as a YF-12C and given the fictitious Air Force Serial Number 60-6937 from an A-12 to maintain SR-71 secrecy. The aircraft was loaned to NASA for propulsion testing after the loss of YF-12A (AF Ser. No. 60–6936) in 1971.

  4. Pratt & Whitney J58 - Wikipedia

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    The Pratt & Whitney J58 (company designation JT11D-20) is an American jet engine that powered the Lockheed A-12, and subsequently the YF-12 and the SR-71 aircraft. It was an afterburning turbojet engine with a unique compressor bleed to the afterburner that gave increased thrust at high speeds.

  5. Lockheed A-12 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. YouTuber crashed his plane for views, then lied about it ...

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    After the crash, Jacob hiked to the wreckage and collected footage from the plane’s video cameras — which he strapped to the aircraft — that captured it crashing into a “dry brush area ...

  7. List of 2012 films based on actual events - Wikipedia

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    Act of Valor (2012) – action war thriller film based on real US Navy SEALs missions around the world [6] Aftershock (2012) – disaster horror film based on true events from the 2010 8.8 earthquake in Chile [7] Amen (2012) – Indian drama short film inspired from the life of the human right activist Harish Iyer [8]

  8. James Irwin - Wikipedia

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    Irwin was also a developmental test pilot for the Lockheed YF-12, the Mach 3 fighter-interceptor variant which preceded the SR-71 Blackbird. His first flight of that aircraft was on the day that one of his five children was born. [7] In 1961, a student pilot that Irwin was training crashed the plane they were flying on a training mission.

  9. Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior - Wikipedia

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    A Lockheed 12 appeared as the French airliner in the climactic final scene from the 1942 film Casablanca. [44] (The aircraft carries the Air France seahorse logo, [45] although Air France did not actually operate the type 12A). A "cut-out" stood in for a real Lockheed 12 in many shots. No real aircraft appeared in the movie.