Defense contractor Lockheed Martin recently announced plans to developed the SR72 – a hypersonic unmanned aircraft that would be the successor to the famous SR71 BlackBird long-range reconnaissance aircraft developed in the 1960’s. The new aircraft will be able to fly 6 times the speed of soun...
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is proposing to develop a new aircraft for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions that is capable of Mach 6.0 flight, or nearly twice the top speed of the long-retired SR-71 Blackbird. The newly-branded SR-72 unmanned aircraft would ta...
Lockheed Martin has begun work on a successor to the supersonic Blackbird SR-71 spy plane. 美国国防工业巨头洛克希德已经着手打造将以六倍音速飞行的新一代无人侦察机“黑鸟之子”——SR-71“黑鸟”间谍飞机的下一代。 The unmanned SR-72 will use an engine that combines a turbine and aramjet(冲压式...
Lockheed’s SR-71 Blackbird first flew in 1964 and was decommissioned in 1999. Not known until the mid nineties is that the SR-71 was developed from the top secret Lockheed A-12. The A-12, project Oxcart, was build for the CIA as high speed and high alti
Lockheed Martin has begun work on a successor to the supersonic Blackbird SR-71 spy plane. 美国国防工业巨头洛克希德已经着手打造将以六倍音速飞行的新一代无人侦察机“黑鸟之子”——SR-71“黑鸟”间谍飞机的下一代。 The unmanned SR-72 will use an engine that combines a turbine and aramjet(冲压式...
It's not strictly car news, but if you like fast things and stunning feats of engineering, you need to know this: Lockheed Martin is developing a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest aircraft in history. If you're not now jumping up and down and screaming with excitement, you...
SH: This is kind of a theme with the Blackbird, right? That the physics you're normally working with are all totally different because of the speed? RM: Right. Everything is different. In that first six months of training, they had to break all your habits you had from your first ten...
Lockheed said the aircraft should be operational by 2030. The SR-72 is being developed at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works R&D centre in California that designed and built the original Blackbird. That aircraft first flew in 1964 and was a mainstay of US Air Force spying and surveillance work ...
“It still looks like something from the future, even though it was designed back in the 1950s,” Peter Merlin, an aviation historian and author of “Design and Development of the Blackbird,” said in a phone interview. “Because of the way the fuselage bends and the wing curves and tw...