LOCKHEED YF-12/60-6935
Serial #: 60-6935
Construction #: 1002
Civil Registration:
None
Construction #: 1002
Civil Registration:
None
Model(s): YF-12A
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2021
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2021
History:
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 60-6933.
Delivered to the United States Air Force as 60-6933.
- BOC: circa 1963.
- Assigned to Edwards AFB, CA.
- 3/18/65: While flying at mach 2.2 and altitude of 65,000 feet, launched an AIM-47 missile successfully intercepting and destroying a Q-2C drone flying at 40,000 feet.
- 5/19/65: While flying at Mach 2.3 and altitude of 65,000 feet, launched an AIM-47 missile successfully intercepting and destroying a Q-2C drone flying at 20,000 feet.
- Transfered to storage, 1967.
- Used for a joint USAF/NASA investigation of supersonic cruise technology, to aid the SST program.
- 12/11/69: First flight of Coldwall project after three months of preparation and modifications.
- *During the program, the Air Force concentrated on military applications, and NASA pursued a loads research program. NASA studies included inflight heating, skin-friction cooling, coldwall research (a heat transfer experiment), flowfield studies, shaker vane research, and tests in support of the Space Shuttle landing program.*(NASA).
- Aircraft continued to make 145 flights in the program.
- Last operational flight, October 31, 1979.
- Ferry flight to U.S. Air Force Museum, Wright Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, November 7, 1979.
Photo Source(s):
Tony Andrews
Research Assistance:
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Tony Andrews
Research Assistance:
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