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 ...ECONNAISSANCE
Born-again Blackbird
Should the SR-71
be brought back?
The debate
continues.
RAMON LOPEZ/WASHINGTON DC
The supersonic Lockheed SR-71 Black bird is no longer a museum piece: no more is it a relic of the Cold War, gath ering dust...
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The F-5E is on loan to Northrop
Grumman under a pioneering co
operative research-and-develop-
ment agreement with the USAF,
which has provided the US Navy
aircraft in return for test results. •
SR-71 Blackbird
is back on song
GUY NORRIS/PALMDALE
L OCKHEED MARTIN is confident that it will be fund
ed to refurbish a third SR-71
Blackbird for the US Air Force in
1996, following the success...
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 ...t flew at three times the speed of sound.
Which may explain why all those
"UFO photos" are so blurry.
On its final flight, our SR-71 Blackbird set a transcontinental speed record when it flew coast
to coast in 64 minutes and 20 seconds. Designed and built in the 1960s, the Blackbird was tested exclusively at the govern
ment...
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 ...als
are adamant that, if the 2% reduc
tion in procurement costs is not
achieved, then some defence pro
jects will either have to be post
poned or cancelled. 3
Lockheed to start work on revived
SR-71s for US Air Force inventory
LOCKHEED ADVANCED Development expects to
receive the first of tfiree SR-7 Is by
the end of February for mainte
nance work before the aircraft re
enters the US Ai...
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 ...filGHT International, 21 December 1967 1047
A mock-up of the CA-31 at the Common-
wealth Aircraft Factory, Melbourne, indicates
the shape of one of the earlier proposals for
a light operational traine...
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 ...department its
nickname of the "Skunk Works."
From this organization has come the
series of aircraft known colloquially
as the "Blackbirds" because of their
sooty colouring: the A-ll, YF-12 and
SR-71, which were the first aeroplanes
capable of sustained Mach 3 cruising
flight above 80,000ft altitude. (The
world records set by the YF-12A on
May 1, 1965, for a straight-line speed
of 2,070...
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 ...first Vought A-7P Corsair II for the Portuguese Air Force on its maiden flight. Portugal will re
ceive 20 A-7Ps which are remanufactured and modernised from early model A-7s
North Koreans
shoot at SR-71
NORTH Korea fired an unknown type
of surface-to-air missile at a United
States Air Force Lockheed SR-71 off
the North Korean east coast on
August 26. The North Koreans have
complained repe...
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 ...PERATIONS: DEFENCE
Elta wins Australian
P-3 ESM contract
The SR-71 holds the sustained altitude record of 25,929m and speed record
Blackbirds going cheap
Israel Aircraft Industries subsidiary Elta has won the
$70 million contract to supply
electronic suppor...
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 ...upgrades include a new emergency-start and
electrical generator systems now expected to
increase die service life to 2020 and beyond.
The upgraded aircraft is designated U-2 S.
Customer: USA 36.
SR-71 BLACKBIRD
THE USAF'S Strategic Air Command first
deployed die SR-71 on reconnaissance missions
in 1966. It was die first operational aircraft capa
ble of achieving speeds above Mach 3. The
...
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 ...flying until at least 2002, using the
second batch of 20 launchers it has
just ordered, while the Ariane 5
proves itself commercially and
builds customer confidence. J
Clinton veto scuttles ASAT/SR-71
THE LOCKHEED SR-71 Blackbird and the develop
ment of a kinetic-energy anti-satel
lite (KE-ASAT) kill vehicle (KKV)
have fallen foul of US President
Clinton, who used the "line-item
veto" t...
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 ... experiments with aerospike in X-33 tests
NASA HAS successfully flown a 12.5m-long, one-tenth
scale model of the Lockheed
Martin X-33 advanced technology
demonstrator on the back of its
Lockheed SR-71. The model
reached speeds of up to Mach 1.2
over the Dryden Flight Research
Center, Edwards AFB, California.
The X-33 model contains an
aerospike rocket motor which will
be ignited for 2-3...
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 ...hed
uled refit, while PP2 at
Agusta continues to amass
flying hours.
Blackbird II
billed as
new black
programme
BURBANK
The US Air Force has finally
embarked on a successor to
the Lockheed SR-71 Black
bird, according to an article
that originally appeared in the
Armed Forces Journal.
Apparently the Lockheed
Aeronautical Systems Group
(ASG) is developing a succes
sor to the SR-71 ...
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 ...pdating SR-71 airframe and avionics is relatively straightforward
Aurora not up to
scratch yet?
Sir — In view of the detail on
operating and support costs
published since the withdrawal
from service of ...
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 ...uilt,
and 121 were upgraded to S-3 Bswidi improved
mission systems. A further 16 S-3 As were
modified to ES-3A Shadow electronic-war
fare/reconnaissance aircraft, but these have
been withdrawn.
SR-71 BLACKBIRD
Two SR-71 A strategic-reconnaissance aircraft
were returned to US Air Force service in 1995,
only to be withdrawn after funding was cut.
NASA and the USAF may continue to fly a sin...
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 ...ECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT STEPHEN TRIMBLE / WASHINGTON DC
Engine chosen for demonstrator
Lockheed Martin will adapt SR-71's powerplant to provide expendable strike vehicle with top speed of Mach 3
Lockheed Martin plans to adapt the
Rolls-Royce Allison Advanced Deve
lopment YJ102R engine, first tested
on the SR-...
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 ...rew ejected safely.
Royal Australian Air Force and Navy crews
are operating UH-I Iroquois in the Sinai as
part of the United Nations' Observer Force.
The aircraft are based at Etam
No Falklands
SR-71 flights
THE Pentagon denies reports that
Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbirds" are
providing the UK with reconnaissance
data on Argentina and the Falkland
Islands. The Pentagon does not nor
mally co...
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 ...The first of eight Fokker F.27-2OOs, EC-BMS, for Iberia was delivered on September 29. The ferry flight to Madrid's Barajas airport was
made non-stop from Schiphol, Amsterdam, flown by an Iberia crew....
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 ...niversary of
the United States Air Force. Aircraft on display
Silver day at Andrews AFB
Photographs by HOWARD LEVY
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ranged from a C-47D, still in service with Tactical Air Force, to a
Lockheed SR-71 (I), which took part in the flypast. 2 Lockheed EC-I2IT;
3 ECM antennae on the nose of an EB-57E and (4) under the rear fuselage;
5 Fairchild has converted 2b C-ll9s to K-model gunships, the r...
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 ...lies
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T-37 A-7 720 Piper Aztec Hug
•8 A-10 727 Piper Apache Hug
T-39 A-37 737 Piper Comanche Hug
F-100 S-3A 747 Piper Navajo
F-101 SR-71/YF-12 DC-8 Piper Pawnee Brave
102 C-5 DC-9 Beech Bonanza
104 C-9 DC-10 Beech Baron
105 C-141 880 Cessna 150
106 B-52 990 Cessna 172 y
111 KC-135 L-1011 Cessna 177
F-4 B-66 F-27 Cessna 180 ...
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 ...ashington Dulles International Airport.
The Center offers uncluttered views of historic r% *4l*
Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
craft like the Concorde, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the
Space Shuttle Enterprise. Opening December 15, in
celebration of the 100th anniversary of flight, the
Center is part of the world's largest aviation and space
museum compl...
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