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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 ...
General Electric (GE) began developing the GE37, which would become basis of the XF120 and YF120, for the Joint Advanced Fighter Engine (JAFE) program in the early 1980s aimed at supplying the powerplant for the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) and the Navy's Advanced Carrier-Based Multirole Fighter (VFMX); JAFE was later renamed the ATF Engine (ATFE) following VFMX's cancellation.
Then, within seconds of being near the Mustang, that same trooper bumps it at 103 mph. The Ford spins counterclockwise, misses a concrete barrier, and slides into a grassy ditch. Thankfully, the ...
A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a train near a state historic site, Lexington police say. Around 8:45 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to the incident in the 200 block of Waveland ...
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.
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 ...