The NTSB released details on two separate Lockheed 12A aircraft crashes in June: one fatal in Chino, CA, and another resulting in serious injuries in Jackson, GA. The Chino, CA crash, which killed two ...
A Cold War interceptor once did something that still sounds like a future weapons test. A Lockheed YF-12A flying at Mach 3.2 and 75,000 feet fired an AIM-47 missile at a QB-47 target aircraft skimming ...
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 ...
Parked on the ConocoPhillips Plaza at AirVenture is a freshly-restored Lockheed Model 12A Electric Junior that once belonged to the predecessor of the plaza’s namesake. The Phillips Petroleum ...
The highest, overall noise level (over 100 dB) business aircraft is the Lockheed JetStar with JT-12A engines. Source: NBAA This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence ...