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Mary Golda Ross was a pioneer in the fields of interplanetary space travel and rocket science.

A LOCKHEED Martin boss has refused to explain a video splashed on social media showing a UFO saucer-like aircraft being wheeled into a top-secret US m

Share Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works plans to begin flight-testing the Speed Racer vehicle in the near future. Credit: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has taken the wraps off an experimental, air-launched unmanned aircraft system called Speed Racer that is meant to validate a new manufacturing process as much as a possible new weapon system. A company-produced video released on the eve of the virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium that ran Feb. 24-26 reveals a small, jet-powered unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with a hexagonal fuselage, folding and swept wings, plus two sh...

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   Feb 20, 2021 11:38 PM EST The new top-secret Unmanned Aircraft System made by the Skunk Works of Lockheed Martin might be ready for trials soon. The U.S.-made x-craft have been unequaled by its adversaries and technically superior. It is related to such aircraft as the SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, and the U-2 Dragon Lady, all top secret in classified tech. The U.S. owns these planes, and no country has replicated them, even tech stealing China. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works says that that they are developing a new unmanned flight vehicle called Speed Racer, ...

This spy plane played a key role in many Cold War episodes. Key point: The A-12 helped fill a missing capability as Soviet air defenses were able to threatend the U-2. Here is how the CIA used the A-12. But the Blackbird’s was actually an enlarged evolution of the Lockheed A-12, designed for service with the Central Intelligence Agency. The single-seat A-12 could fly slightly faster and higher, but it was doomed to be replaced by its heavier Air Force spinoff. By the late 1950s, aviation engineers knew that new Soviet surface-to-air missiles could effectively threaten high-altitude U-2 spy...