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...Many wrote Lockheed off after this debacle, but the company had some ideas of its own. In an industry made cautious by military cutbacks, huge development costs and quick obsolescence, it has moved ahead with such exotic projects as the U2, the 2,000-m.p.h. A11 interceptor, and the still-secret RS-71 world-spanning reconnaissance plane. Lockheed has not only earned a reputation as the most imaginative of the aerospace firms, but has translated its flights of fancy into highly successful products. Result: it has surged to the top of the aerospace industry, with sales of $1.93 billion...
...Under the Sea. Last week, giving further evidence of its imagination, Lockheed revealed plans for a bullet-shaped, delta-winged rocket plane that by 1975 may be carrying ten passengers and a crew of two on regular trips between earth and an orbiting space station. Like the U2, the A11 and the RS-71, the rocket plane is being developed in Lockheed's famous "Skunk Works," presided over by Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson, the company's engineering genius...
...told a Washington aeronautical conference that ground dwellers cannot adjust to the SST's shattering sonic boom, suggested "careful routing" of the planes at a cost in time and fuel. Last week Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, the Lockheed vice president who designed both the U-2 and the A11, said as he received an achievement award from the National Aviation Club: "I am very concerned about the sonic boom where the SST is concerned. Something must be done, or a technical breakthrough achieved to get the boom reduced...
...A11 is powered by a pair of new J58 jet engines, developed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. over the past eight years. But its real secret lies in the metal of which it is largely made: titanium, which can withstand the searing heat that is generated in flight at many times the speed of sound. Titanium had long resisted the best efforts of engineers to fabricate it as the major metal in any aircraft...
...months, U.S. planemakers, watching the development of the British-French, Mach 2 airliner called Concorde, have worried that the U.S. was falling behind in the field of supersonic flight. Now, with the development of the A11, the U.S., instead, has reached a critical take-off ahead of the rest of the world. In so doing, it may well have revolutionized manned aircraft...