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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).
A-12: Apr 26, 1962: CIA supersonic spyplane YF-12 Blackbird: Aug 7, 1963: supersonic interceptor prototype SR-71 Blackbird: Dec 22, 1964: USAF supersonic spyplane YO-3A Quiet Star: 1966: Reconnaissance LASA-60: Sep 15, 1959: Light Utility Sport Aircraft X-26B: Have Blue (XST) Dec 1977: stealth technology testbed F-117 Nighthawk: Jun 18, 1981 ...
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 ...
Primus made parts for airplanes, selling their products to both Airbus and Boeing. [11] In May 2012 PCC acquired Centra Industries Inc. a builder of aircraft parts for Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Spirit AeroSystems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Bombardier. They have two plants based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. [12]
Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for aircraft parts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. The federal ...
Heavy fighter/Interceptor Grumman Developed from the XF5F-1. Entered into a United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) contest for a twin-engine heavy interceptor aircraft. The USAAC placed an order for a prototype on 25 November 1939, designating it XP-50, but it lost the competition to the Lockheed XP-49. 1941 [24] Never 1 XP-60: Fighter Curtiss-Wright
The Hughes AIM-47 Falcon, originally GAR-9, was a very long-range high-performance air-to-air missile that shared the basic design of the earlier AIM-4 Falcon.It was developed in 1958 along with the new Hughes AN/ASG-18 radar fire-control system intended to arm the Mach 3 XF-108 Rapier interceptor aircraft and, after that jet's cancellation, the YF-12A (whose production was itself cancelled ...
Lockheed YF-12, a prototype interceptor aircraft. This page was last edited on 10 February 2020, at 15:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...