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The museum has several rare aircraft among its collection, including the second Northrop YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) 5th generation stealth fighter demonstrator. Also on display is the first Northrop YF-17 Cobra, a lightweight fighter which was the basis for the Boeing (originally McDonnell-Douglas ) F/A-18 Hornet currently used by ...
Western Museum of Flight. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. "Northrop YF-23A "Black Widow II" ". Western Museum of Flight. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. YF-23 Walk Around and Design Features by Test Pilot Paul Metz. Western Museum of Flight, Torrance, California: Peninsula Seniors Productions. 6 September 2015. Event ...
The two teams, Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics and Northrop/McDonnell Douglas, were awarded $691 million contracts in FY 1985 dollars (~$1.66 billion in 2023) and would undertake a 50-month demonstration and validation phase, culminating in the flight test of the two teams' prototypes, the YF-22 and the YF-23; Pratt & Whitney and General ...
Wende Museum: Culver City: Westside: History: History and culture of the Cold War, particularly in East Germany, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Western Museum of Flight: Torrance: South Bay: Aviation: Operated by the Southern California Historical Aviation Foundation, collection of notable jet and propeller-drive airplanes Whittier Museum ...
The Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) was a program undertaken by the United States Air Force to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter to replace the F-15 Eagle in order to counter emerging worldwide threats in the 1980s, including Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 and Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters under development, Beriev A-50 airborne warning and control systems (AWACS), and increasingly ...
The 1988 crash of Delta Flight 1141 was the last major commercial accident at Dallas-Fort Worth. Ahead of the 35th anniversary, these Star-Telegram photos of the scene are published for the first ...
The 411th Flight Test Squadron is a United States Air Force squadron assigned to the 412th Operations Group of Air Force Materiel Command, stationed at Edwards Air Force Base, California. It conducted the Advanced Tactical Fighter program flyoff competition between the Lockheed YF-22 and Northrop YF-23 prototypes.
A Northern California family suffered just minor cuts after engine trouble on the plane they were on forced them to crash-land in the woods in Mendocino County Friday, authorities said.. The ...