The A-12 went head-to-head with Lockheed’s SR-71 “Blackbird,” a secret derivative project from the A-12’s design, in a 1967 competitive reconnaissance fly-off codenamed NICE GIRL.The A-12 ...

Key Points – The A-12 Oxcart, developed by Lockheed’s Skunk Works for the CIA in the early 1960s, was the single-seat, Mach 3.29 (at 90,000 feet) precursor to the USAF’s more famous SR-71 ...

The Lockheed A-12 was an iconic US spy plane that despite its short-life set records and cast a long legacy. Creating a 'very fast, very high-flying' reconnaissance aircraft.

In another remarkable chapter in the history of the A-12 Oxcart (as well as the M-21/YF-12A/SR-71 family of Lockheed Skunk Works aircraft), Mr. Thornton D. “TD” Barnes, prolific author and ...

“Project Oxcart,” the Skunk Works project responsible for the development of the Lockheed A-12, created one of the fastest jet aircraft in history.The A-12 was enormously innovative, bearing a ...

The Archangel-12, or A-12 for short, is considered to be America's first supersonic spy plane. But the spy plane was retired after one year as its successor was already in development. Its design ...

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The A-12 was a mach 3 spy plane made for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) back in the 1960s, in case you wondered. Credit: Wikimedia CC Lockheed A-12 spy plane in flight. It was capable of ...

Produced from 1962 to 1964, a grand total of 13 A-12s flew missions over North Vietnam and elsewhere in southeast Asia during the height of the U.S. military campaign there before retiring in 1969 ...

With a top speed of Mach 3.35, or 2,221 mph, the Lockheed A-12 “Archangel” or “Oxcart” is the fastest air-breathing jet ever built—even faster than its larger two-seat cousin, the SR-71 ...

Grimes and Elon Musk welcomed baby boy X Æ A-12 on Monday. ... before sharing that a part of her son's name is a nod to the CIA's Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance plane. "A-12 = precursor to SR-17 ...