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 Blackbird. -While both ...

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 the 1950s and 60s ...

[1] It was developed as a black projectfrom the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by Lockheed and its Skunk Works division. Renowned American aerospace engineer Clarence "Kelly ...

Lockheed's Model 12-A was a twin-engine transport plane that the aerospace firm manufactured between 1936 and 1942. It was designed as a smaller version of Lockheed's 10-A, sitting just over 36 ...