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  2. Western Museum of Flight - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Northrop YF-23 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Lockheed YF-22 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. 411th Flight Test Squadron - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. General Electric YF120 - Wikipedia

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    For flight demonstration, YF120s were fitted with the larger fan, unlike the YF119 which used its original small fan. As a result, both demonstrator aircraft had higher performance with the YF120s than with the YF119s. [5] The YF120-powered the YF-22 and YF-23 to supercruise speeds of Mach 1.58 and Mach 1.72 respectively. [6] [7] [N 1]

  7. Advanced Tactical Fighter - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Supercruise - Wikipedia

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    The English Electric Lightning was one of the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight without using afterburning. Concorde routinely supercruised most of the way over the Atlantic, enabling it to travel from London and Paris to New York in just over three hours, a record which has yet to be surpassed by any other commercial aircraft.

  9. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Northrop YF-23

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    It is difficult enough finding detailed info on the YF-23. It took multiple references to cover the details in places. But I'm working on combining footnotes from sources I have and can check. There is no real conflict on the interim bomber use. The YF-23 was modified only for display use; believe only the cockpit was modified/updated..