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Lockheed Martin Skunk Works P791 LTA ACLS
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kunk Works, an official alias for Lockheed
Martin's Advanced Development Programs and
formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development
Projects, is responsible for a number of
famous aircraft designs, including the U-2,
the SR-71, the F-117, and the F-22. Its
largest current project is the F-35 JSF
(Joint Strike Fighter), which will be used in
the air forces of several countries around
the world. Production is expected to last for
up to four decades.
The roots for the Skunk Works started in
Burbank, California when Lockheed was tasked
with building a high speed, highly
maneuverable fighter to compete with the
aircraft coming out of the Messerschmitt
factory. Lockheed Model 22 rolled out in
December 1938 and had her maiden flight on
January 27, 1939. This plane would later be
known as the P-38, and would be one of the
most successful aircraft in the U.S. military
for its time.
Lockheed considers June 1943 the birth month
of the Skunk Works known today:
The Air Tactical Service Command (ATSC)
of the Army Air Force met with Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation to express its need for
a jet fighter. A rapidly growing German jet
threat gave Lockheed an opportunity to
develop an airframe around the most powerful
jet engine that the allied forces had access
to, the British Goblin. Lockheed was chosen
to develop the jet because of its past
interest in jet development and its previous
contracts with the Air Force. One month after
the ATSC and Lockheed meeting, a young
engineer by the name of Clarence L. "Kelly"
Johnson and other associate engineers hand
delivered the initial XP-80 proposal to the
ATSC. Two days later the go-ahead was given
to Lockheed to start development and the
Skunk Works was born, with Kelly Johnson at
the helm. The formal contract for the XP-80
did not arrive at Lockheed until October 16,
1943; some four months after work had already
begun. This would prove to be a common
practice within the Skunk Works. Many times a
customer would come to the Skunk Works with a
request and on a handshake the project would
begin, no contracts in place, no official
submittal process. Kelly Johnson and his
Skunk Works team designed and built the XP-80
in only 143 days, seven less than was
specified as the maximum allowed under the
contract.[2]
Later, near the end of World War II, Skunk
Works was tasked with developing the United
States' first operational jet fighter—the
P-80 Shooting Star. A small team of engineers
led by Kelly Johnson created the first
prototype in only 143 days. (Kelly Johnson
headed the Skunk Works until 1975. He was
succeeded by Ben Rich.)
In 1955, the Skunk Works received a contract
to build a spyplane known as the U-2 with the
intention of overflying the Soviet Union and
photographing sites of strategic interest.
The U-2 was tested at Groom Lake in the
Nevada desert. The first overflight took
place on July 4th 1956. The U-2 ceased
overflights when Francis Gary Powers was shot
down during a mission on May 1, 1960, while
over Russia.
The Skunk Works had predicted that the U-2
had a limited operational life over the
Soviet Union. The CIA agreed. The Skunk Works
got a contract in late 1959 to build five
A-12 aircraft at a cost of $96 million
dollars. Building a Mach 3.0 aircraft out of
titanium posed enormous difficulties and the
first flight did not occur until 1962.
Several years later, the U.S. Air Force
became interested in the design, and it
ordered the SR-71 Blackbird, an improved
two-seater version of the A-12. This aircraft
first flew in 1966 and remained in service
until 1998.
The D-21 drone, similar in design to the
Blackbird, was built to overfly China. This
drone sat on top of a specially modified
A-12, known as M-21, of which there were two
built. No D-21s were successfully launched
from M-21s, although a few were deployed from
B-52s.
After the Cold War ended in 1989, Lockheed
reorganized its operations and relocated the
Skunk Works to Site 10 at U.S. Air Force
Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, where it
remains in operation today.
The term "Skunk Works" is a registered
trademark of Lockheed Martin; the company
also holds several registrations of it with
the United States Patent and Trademark
Office. They have filed several challenges
against registrants of domain names
containing variations on the term under
anti-cybersquatting policies, and have lost a
case under the .uk domain name dispute
resolution service against a company selling
cannabis seeds and paraphernalia, which used
the word "skunkworks" in its domain name
(referring to "Skunk", a variety of the
cannabis plant). Lockheed Martin claimed the
company registered the domain in order to
disrupt its business and that consumer
confusion might result. The respondent
company argued that Lockheed "used its size,
resources and financial position to employ
'bullyboy' tactics against
a very small company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_works
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| Forgotten Aircraft - Lockheed Constitution |
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The Lockheed R6V Constitution was a large,
propeller-driven, double-decker transport
aircraft developed in the 1940s by Lockheed
as a long-range, high capacity transport and
airliner for the U.S. Navy and Pan American
Airways. (The Constitutions were identified
as R6O until 1950.) Only two of the planes
were ever built, both prototypes. Although
these two planes went into service with the
Navy, the Constitution design ultimately
proved underpowered and too large for
practical airline use at the time. The
Constitution remains the largest fixed-wing
aircraft type ever operated by the U.S. Navy.
The Lockheed Constitution began life in 1942
as a joint study by the U.S. Navy, PanAm, and
Lockheed. The design requirements, initially
designated Lockheed Model 89, called for a
large transport aircraft to improve upon the
Navy's fleet of flying boats. PanAm was
involved in the study because such an
aircraft had potential use as a commercial
airliner. This transport would carry 17,500
pounds of cargo 5,000 miles at a cruising
altitude of 25,000 feet and a speed greater
than 250 mph. The aircraft would be fully
pressurized and large enough so that most
major components could be accessed and
possibly repaired in flight. For instance,
tunnels led through the thick wings to all
four engines.)
The aircraft was designed by a team of
engineers led by Willis Hawkins and W.A.
Pulver of Lockheed and Commander E. L.
Simpson, Jr. of the Navy. The name
Constitution was given to the project by
Lockheed president Robert E. Gross.
The Constitution design had a "double bubble"
fuselage, the cross section of which was a
"figure eight". This unorthodox design
utilized the structural advantages of a
cylinder for cabin pressurization, without
the wasted space that would result from a
single large cylinder of the same volume.
The original contract from the Bureau of
Aeronautics called for 50 Constitutions for a
total price tag of $111,250,000. However, on
VJ Day, the contract was scaled back to
$27,000,000 for only two aircraft.
The first Constitution, BuNo 85163, was built
in the summer of 1946 at the Lockheed plant
in Burbank, California. Because of the
aircraft's large size—the tail towered 50
feet—Lockheed had to build a special hangar
for final assembly. The $1,250,000 hangar,
Lockheed-California's Building 309, measured
408 feet long, 302 feet wide, and the
equivalent of six stories tall. The footprint
of the hangar covered four acres.
The R6O made its first flight on November 9,
1946. Joe Towle and Tony LeVier flew the
plane on a leisurely course to Muroc Air
Force Base. Once there, the plane underwent a
carefully documented test program. At this
time, electronic data recording technology
was not well developed, so instrument
readings were recorded by a movie camera
pointed at the instrument panel.
The first Constitution made a nonstop flight
from Moffett Field to NAS Patuxent River on
July 25, 1948. The pilot for the flight was
Commander William Collins (USN) and the
copilot was Roy Wimmer, Lockheed engineering
test pilot. Four days later, the ship was
formally christened by Mrs. John L. Sullivan,
wife of the Secretary of the Navy, at
Washington National Airport.
The R6O tested JATO takeoffs with six rockets
mounted on the rear of the fuselage. At full
gross weight, the rockets shortened the
takeoff run by 24%.
Ship No. 1 was delivered to Navy Transport
Squadron VR-44, based at NAS Alameda, on
February 2, 1949. Both it and its sister
ship, Ship No. 2 (which followed six months
later), flew the route between California and
Hawaii.
The second Constitution, BuNo 85164, first
flew on June 9, 1948. This aircraft, like its
predecessor, had a double-deck configuration.
The second aircraft, however, had an upper
deck fully furnished as a luxury passenger
transport, with accommodations for 92
passengers and 12 crew. The second
Constitution, like its predecessor, also made
a nonstop transcontinental flight. On
February 3, 1949, the aircraft flew its 16
crew and 74 members of the press from Moffett
Field to Washington National Airport. At the
time, this was the largest number of people
flown across the United States in a single
flight.
In the early 1950s, Ship No. 2 made a Navy
recruiting tour of 19 cities. The side of the
fuselage proudly advertised "YOUR NAVY—AIR
AND SEA." Some 546,000 toured the plane's
interior.
General characteristics
Crew: 12
Capacity: 168 passengers
Length: 156 ft 1 in (47.6 m)
Wingspan: 189 ft 1 in (57.6 m)
Height: 50 ft 4.5 in (15.4 m)
Wing area: 3,610 ft² (335.4 m²)
Empty weight: 113,780 lb (51,610 kg)
Loaded weight: 160,000 lb (72,600 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 184,000 lb (83,460 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radial
engine, 3,000 hp (2,240 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 303 mph at 25,000 ft (490 km/h
at 7,600 m)
Cruise speed: 260 mph (418 km/h)
Range: 5,390 mi (8,670 km)
Service ceiling: 28,600 ft (8,700 m)
Rate of climb: 700 ft/min (210 m/min)
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| LM's JLTV |
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Lockheed Martin's prototype Joint Light
Tactical Vehicle.
(Uploaded for use on Aviation Week's Ares
defense weblog
[http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/de
fense/].)
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| Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 52+ evaluation flight |
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Evaluation flight HAF F-16 block 52+ by USAF
pilot.The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multirole
jet fighter aircraft developed by General
Dynamics in the United States. Designed as a
lightweight fighter, it evolved into a
successful multi-role aircraft. The Falcon's
versatility is a paramount reason it was a
success on the export market, serving 24
countries. The F-16 is the largest and
probably most significant current Western
fighter program, with over 4,000 aircraft
built since production started in 1976.
Though no longer produced for the United
States Air Force, it is still produced for
export.
The Fighting Falcon is regarded as a superb
dogfighter, with innovations including a
frameless canopy for better visibility,
side-mounted control stick to ease control
while under high g-forces, and reclined seat
to reduce the effect of g-forces on the
pilot. It was also the first fighter aircraft
to be deliberately built to sustain 9g turns.
It is also one of the few jets with a
thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one,
giving the Falcon excellent acceleration.In
1993 General Dynamics sold its aircraft
manufacturing business to the Lockheed
Corporation, which in turn became part of
Lockheed Martin after a 1995 merger with
Martin Marietta.Block 50/52 Plus (F-16U)
Ordered by Polish Air Force. These
aircraft are fitted with the latest avionics
(including the ALE-50 Towed Decoy System) and
provisions for Conformal Fuel Tanks (CFTs).
On 9 November, 2006, it was unveiled that the
Polish F-16s will be named Jastrzab (Hawk).
Limited operational readiness will be
achieved in 2008 and last F16 should be
delivered by 2012. The Hellenic Air Force
ordered this version with the CFTs. All
two-seat "Plus" airframes include the
enlarged Avionics Dorsal Spine which adds 30
cubic feet (850 L) to the airframe for more
avionics with only small increases in weight
and drag. This version is sometimes called
F-16U and is the foundation of F-16E/F Block
60.[citation needed] The Republic of
Singapore Air Force (RSAF) also ordered
two-seat versions of the Block 52+.
Singapore's most recent order consists of an
aircraft model rumored to be the exact same
configuration as the venerable F-16I, but
re-designated to avoid sensitivity. The
latest D+ models ordered by the RSAF can be
noted to have the exact same antennas, sensor
locations, cockpit configurations as that of
the F-16I. These planes are also fitted with
DASH-3 Helmet-mouted sighting system,
600-Gallon tanks, CFTs, AMRAAM, HARM and
laser-guided weapons, fully-configured for
long-range strike. The Pakistan Air Force
ordered 18 Block 52 Plus F-16s with an option
for 18 more as part of a $5.1 arms package.
Pakistani F-16s will be equipped with
AIM-120C5 AMRAAM, AIM-9M-8/9, JDAM, Harpoon
Block II, Joint-Helmet Mounted Cueing System,
CFTs and possibly IRIS-T.
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| Lockheed-Martin "Skunk Works" P791 LTA ACLS dynmicpara |
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The first known way (that at least
establishment caveman-to-spaceman mythology
historians accept) for men to fly was by
Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) aircraft. Today's
Lockheed-Martin "Skunk Works" P-791 LTA
hybrid heavy lifter with an air-cushion
landing system (ACLS) to firmly connect the
airship to the ground in suction mode is a
good contrast for the LTA balloon attack
envisioned during the 1800s by Benjamin
Franklin and Napoleon.
http://www.combatreform.com/aircraftphotos.ht
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LTA hot air ballons probably were used by
even primitive ancient peoples. The U.S. Army
used observation balloons in the Civil War
saving us from disaster to ward off
Confederate counter-attacks that incompetent
General McClellan who dithered about invited.
Most know about WW1 observation balloons but
not that the Japanese used observation
balloons to direct artillery fire to compel
the British to surrender at Singapore in WW2.
High technology M113 Gavins should have a
small balloon unreel with a fiber-optic link
to a videocamera to have a "see over the next
hill" capability instead of launching model
airplanes (fixed-wing UAVs) that will crash
and be lost. Hyperblimps that are see-thru
look like a better option to fly ahead for
closer investigations. Leonardo Da Vinci may
have also discovered heated air LTA and
probably flew the first gliders by men in the
post-ancient era judging from his mysterious
art work showing scenes only perceptable from
the air and his strange health problems we
suspect received from glider crashes. Da
Vinci destroyed most of his books pertaining
to military inventions so one has to wonder
what he was actually able to do.
http://www.geocities.com/usarmyaviationdigest
/airborneaircraftcarriers.htm
LTA is making a big comeback since America's
military needs to move anywhere across the
globe and deliver tracked AFVs like M113
Gavin to then dominate a fight. Agile
see-thru blimps that can remain undetected
are also needed to provide 24/7/365
continuous overhead presence to smother
insurgencies in sub-national
conflicts--particularly securing border
fences and denying land mine layers access to
roads:
http://www.combatreform.com/johnpaulvann.htm
Agile Clear HyperBlimp Model shows Sky
Camouflage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kl3ofWXBP8
LTA is desperately needed to fix America's
Navy surface ship vulnerability against air,
missile and submarine attacks:
http://www.geocities.com/usarmyaviationdigest
/airborneaircraftcarriers.htm
Lockheed-Martin's P-971 looks like an ideal
candidate for such missions and should be of
a see-thru material so as to be invisible to
the naked eye. Even USAF officers are in
favor of LTA:
Air Force Journal of Logistics Volume XXIX,
Number 3/4 File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat -
http://www.aflma.hq.af.mil/lgj/06_Hist_Back_t
o_Future_Airships.pdf
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