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... aircraft was rolled out at the Northrop Corp. plant in Hawthorne, Calif. The YF-17 and the YF-16 being built by General Dynamics Corp. marked the first Air Force effort to ... on paper studies by using an advance prototyping concept. The USAF would evaluate the YF-16 and YF-17 in a 12-mo flight-test program before making a commitment to production ...

... 1975. ''(NASA Release 72-218)'' Designation of two new, lightweight, fighter prototype aircraft as YF-16 and YF-17 was announced by Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. Robert C. Seamans , Jr. YF-16, powered by one Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine, had swept-wing, under-fuselage inlet, single vertical tail, and forebody strakes. YF-17, powered by two General Electric YJ101 turbojet engines, had twin tail, highly-swept-wing ...

... test flights in mid-May to aid designers of future highly maneuverable aircraft. The YF-17, built by Northrop Corp. for the Air Force's lightweight fighter program, is a ... . Under a $255 000 contract funded jointly by NASA and the U.S. Navy, the YF-17 would be flown for about 8 wk by Gary Krier, DFRC's YF-17 project pilot. (DFRC Release 7-76) April 1976 April May 1976 May May 1 ...

... at LaRC 's Impact Dynamics Research Facility, the Langley Researcher reported. The Navy's XFV-12A plane built by Rockwell International 's Columbus Aircraft Div. was the only one of its ... thrust-augmented wing concept in supersonic flight. The tests at LaRC had tethered the XFV-12A to the gantry by a single cable from a powerful winch mounted 210ft above ground ... operated at full power. Using results of the static tests, LaRC had put the XFV-12A through dynamic tests, permitting greater freedom of motion, as he aircraft was not restrained by ...

... Northrop Corp.'s YF-17 lightweight tactical fighter prototype air-craft made its first flight, from Edwards Air Force ... speed of 740 km per hr. All flight objectives were met. The YF-17 joined the General Dynamics Corp. YF-16, which had made its first flight 2 Feb., in the lightweight ...

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... September 1937 Geoff Godwin was dispatched to Lockheed in Burbank California to purchase a Lockheed 12A aircraft. In June 1939 engineer Samuels was replaced by Chief ground engineer AC Warren. On ... of World War 2. On 28th January 1940 the Maharaja Umaid Singh donated his Lockheed 12A to the RAF. Godwin flew the plane to Delhi where it was redesignated with an ...

... the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio, for installation in the YF-12 triple-sonic aircraft shortly to par­ticipate in a flight research program. Use of XB-70 transducers in the high-temperature environment to be encountered by new YF-12 aircraft would save Government more than $950 000 in instrument development and production costs ...

... Lockheed Aircraft Corp. x-ray astronomy experiment. Rocket and instruments functioned satisfactorily. ''(SR list)'' USAF YF-12 aircraft, one of two in joint NASA-USAF aeronautical re- search program to advance ... Edwards AFB, Calif. Both pilots parachuted to safety. Coincidentally, NASA announced addition of another USAF YF- 12 to program. New aircraft was specially instrumented for inflight propulsion studies of engine internal ...

... said, would be to follow the Air Force lightweight fighter prototype program-including the YF-16 and YF-17--with an ACF development program. Advocates later said the ACF could defend bases ...

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