Here’s What You Need to Remember: Before the famous SR-71, there was the YF-12, which emerged from Lockheed Martin in the 1960s. During its nine years of existence, the YF-12 had slightly less than ...
During its nine years of existence, the YF-12 had slightly less than 300 flights, of a total of about 450 flight hours. And it was thought to be one of the fastest jets ever to fly. Before the famous ...
An aircraft unlike any other appeared suddenly on Feb. 29, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson announced the existence of the Lockheed “A-11,” a real aircraft with a purposely fake designation. The ...
Skunk works department of Lockheed, tasked with black projects throughout the cold war, was already working on A-12. This was ...