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  • Lockheed Martin Breaks Silence on Hypersonic SR-72, Blackbird's Successor Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Breaks Silence on Hypersonic SR-72, Blackbird’s Successor Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works broke its silence on plans to build the SR-72, a hypersonic spy plane successor of the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft. The SR-72 will have a combined cycle propulsion system that combines a supersonic jet engine with a rocket engine, Lockheed Martin’s advanced aircraft division told Aviation Week. According to specifications, the SR-72 will […] More

  • Lockheed's Sikorsky Arm to Give Smithsonian X2 Demo Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Sikorsky Arm to Give Smithsonian X2 Demo Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will donate an experimental aircraft that unofficially broke the rotorcraft speed record in 2010 to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Sikorsky designed the X2 Technology Demonstrator in a push to prove that helicopters can double the speed of conventional rotorcraft designs without having to […] More