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Lockheed Skunk Works A-12

Just as the iconic SR-71 Blackbird, the stealthiest jet at the time, was being unveiled to the public, a similar, if not more ...
Key Points and Summary - After the U-2 shootdown in 1960, the CIA needed a reconnaissance aircraft that could outrun missiles and hide from radar. Lockheed’s A-12 Oxcart answered: a single-seat, ...
The U.S. Air Force flew a reconnaissance jet from the mid-'60s through 1990 that set a few long-standing speed and altitude ...
NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on ...
A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the ...
NASA and Lockheed Martin tested a supersonic jet designed to minimize noise, taking a step toward faster commercial travel. The X-59 jet, capable of flying faster than sound with minimal disturbance, ...
NASA and Lockheed Martin debuted their first test run of a low-volume supersonic jet that’s expected to allow air passengers to travel faster than the speed of sound.   The X-59 aircraft on ...
As I asserted in a recent article for The National Interest, of all the great geniuses in the history of military aviation history, none could quite compare to the late great Clarence “Kelly” Johnson ...