Aerospace & Defense
Lockheed once sketched a carrier-based Blackbird. The A-12CB would have left an aircraft carrier deck with Rocketdyne boosters borrowed from the F-104G zero-length-launch program,...
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Lockheed once sketched a carrier-based Blackbird. The A-12CB would have left an aircraft carrier deck with Rocketdyne boosters borrowed from the F-104G zero-length-launch program,...
Gen. Curtis LeMay and SAC commander Gen. Thomas Power both took interest in the RB-12 in 1961, but the XB-70's backers inside the Air...
The SR-71 Blackbird did not dodge missiles so much as it made the intercept mathematically unaffordable, arriving and departing faster than the defense could...
From 1991 through 1999, NASA flew the SR-71 Blackbird after the aircraft was retired from the U.S. Air Force. The aircraft was flown for...
The SR-71 Blackbird Story (and Nearly Forgotten A-12) The SR-71 Blackbird was a fantastic aircraft. It was designed and built by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson’s...
The survival of Ken Collins in the 1963 crash of the A-12 Oxcart remains one of the most surreal chapters of Cold War aviation....
Key Points and Summary – The A-12 Oxcart was the CIA’s secret predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird, designed under Project OXCART to solve the...
Summary and Key Points: The YF-12 was a Mach 3 interceptor variant of the iconic SR-71 Blackbird’s predecessor, the A-12 Oxcart. -Developed to counter...
Meet the A-12 Oxcart: The CIA and the Air Force teamed up in the 1950s with Clarence “Kelly” Johnson’s Lockheed Skunk Works to work...
Summary and Key Points: The CIA’s A-12 Oxcart, a top-secret Cold War spy plane, was built to fly faster and higher than any predecessor,...