New Lockheed A-12 Cygnus in development

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I had been working on a brand new SR-71 model for FSX, however after the announcement by Milviz of their forthcoming SR-71, I decided to rework the aircraft into the faster, higher flying father of the SR-71, the Lockheed A-12 Cygnus developed by Lockheed under the project codenamed 'Oxcart'. The programme was setup to develop a higher flying and faster successor to the Lockheed U-2.

I present to you screenshots of my forthcoming release. All is work in progress, especially the cockpit.

Hope you like it.















and a shot in P3D, although it's being developed for FSX primarily.

[bubba620]

Love it. Love it. Can't wait. I will keep watch on your future post. Thanks Brian

[000rick000]

David this is fantastic! I will be supporting this project! If you need anything let me know. I have come across some large digital photos from Lockheed which show images of the A12#1 and M/D21 inflight that o have never come across anywhere else. I can send you the links if you like...for repaint purposes. Of you jave them or jave seen them, then oh well!

[000rick000]

Well known photo



Much lesser known photos (at least to me)

FIRST FLIGHT FROM ABOVE

You can see how reflective the skin was by the reflection near the engines on the wing surface.



MD21

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[DBushell]

Hi Rick,

Yes please, if you have any big A-12 photos that would be great! support @ glowingheat.co.uk

Thanks for the kind comments

David.

[skipph1]

David, I hope you start considering developing for P3D. I am currently using the B-58 in Version 3.1 successfully . The new features of P3D as well as shadows and lighting are great . I am just imagining going into the avatar mode and doing a walk around of the A-12. Will be supporting any of your efforts, Skip

[DBushell]

Hi Skip,

The final image in the first post was taken in P3D V3 - haven't installed V3.1 yet, but it looks great in V3. I will need to purchase a developer's licence to develop for P3D which at the moment I can't afford, being only a single developer working on this. But hopefully before release things might change and enable to take a deeper look in P3D.

All the mappings will be SDK standard for FSX, with spec, bump, reflection etc all controlled, so the new scenery reflections in V3.1 of P3D should work too

Thanks

David.

[Samro]

I have your B-58 FSX & the old Alpha Sim SR-71, im looking to replace the latter and dropped buy to see what your FSX offering was like or weather to wait for the Milviz SR-71... now seems im going to have to buy an A-12 as well ;-p looks superb very exciting! [so much so I made an account just to post this ;-p]

[DBushell]

Thanks Samro, it's a very overlooked aircraft, although somewhat unjustly since the Lockheed A-12 was actually faster and flew higher than the heavier SR-71, but the project was short lived as the SR-71's came online there was no need to continue to operate two Mach 3+ types, and since the SR-71 had been made public the CIA operated A-12s were sent to Palmdale in California for storage.

Contrary to popular misconception, the SR-71 was never to my knowledge operated from Area 51, only the A-12 was flight tested and operated from Area 51 after being constructed in and transported from Burbank.