Lockheed A 12 The CIA s Blackbird and other variants 1st Edition Paul 1472801156 9781472801159

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• ISBN 10: 1472801156
• ISBN 13: 9781472801159
• Author: Paul Crickmore

During the early years of the Cold War, the most effective way to gather strategic intelligence about the Soviet Union and its allies was manned overflight. Lockheed’s U-2 was spectacularly successful in this role, however, much to the concern of US President Eisenhower, its shape meant that it could be tracked on Russian radars. Given the highly sensitive nature of such flights, the President insisted that every effort should be made to reduce to zero the U-2’s radar cross section (RCS), thereby making the aircraft invisible. When this was proven to be impossible, the stage was set for a U-2 replacement. Following a competition between Lockheed and Convair, the former was declared the winner and the result was the A-12. Designed to incorporate ‘stealth’ features before the term was even coined, the A-12 has to date proven to be the fastest, highest flying jet aircraft ever built. This book will also cover a two-seat variation of the design built as an advanced interceptor – the YF-12.

Table of contents:

Design and Development

Project Suntan

Supersonic Gusto

Convair’s competitor

The final competition

Mayday

Technical Specifications

A thermal thicket

General layout

Engines

Hydraulics

Fuel system

Air Inlet Control System (AICS)

Stability Augmentation System

Inertial Navigation System (INS)

Mission sensors

Crew Survival Systems

A-12 Projects and Variants

Mach 3 mothership: Project Tagboard and the M-21/D-21

Project Kedlock: the YF-12 interceptor

Operational History

Black Shield

North Korea and the Pueblo affair

Oxcart closedown

NASA operations

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