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The X-56A is based on Lockheed's earlier UAV work, showing influence from the Polecat, Sentinel and DarkStar UAVs. The program calls for the construction of two 7.5 feet (2.3 m)-long fuselages and a wingspan of 27.5 ft, [ 3 ] with four sets of wings being constructed for flight testing.
This list of United States Tri-Service aircraft designations includes prototype, pre-production and operational type designations under the United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system, which replaced the 1924 Air Force, 1922 Navy, and 1956 Army designation systems in 1962.
The first, the Bell X-1, became well known in 1947 after it became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. [7] Later X-planes supported important research in a multitude of aerodynamic and technical fields, but only the North American X-15 rocket plane of the early 1960s achieved comparable fame to that of the X-1.
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.
Lockheed Martin X-56, modular unmanned aerial vehicle designed to explore High-Altitude Long Endurance flight technologies Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination.
Cobra Eye – Boeing RC-135X reconnaissance aircraft with mission of tracking intercontinental ballistic missile reentry vehicles. [53] [54] In 1993, it was converted into an additional RC-135S Cobra Ball. [55] [56] The sole aircraft was converted during the mid-to-late-1980s from a C-135B Telemetry/Range Instrumented Aircraft, serial number 62 ...
Below is a list of "X-planes" designated before 1962. For a list of X-planes designated after 1962, see List of United States Tri-Service aircraft designations § X: Special research. X-1 – Bell (redesignated from S-1) X-2 – Bell (redesignated from S-2) X-3 Stiletto – Douglas (redesignated from S-3) X-4 Bantam – Northrop (redesignated ...
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