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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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