The story of the battle between engineers and the laws of physics, which created an aircraft whose capabilities are still amazing. Welcome to the Age of Archangels.

The A-12 is a high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft created by the Lockheed Skunk Works division for the CIA under the Oxcart program in the early 1960s. The breakthrough design and power plant gave the aircraft the ability to fly at a cruising speed of more than Mach 3, which, for that time, was a revolutionary achievement.
The Oxcart project and the A-12 itself, led by the CIA for a long time, were strictly classified. This, along with the limited number and duration of service, was the reason why the strategic reconnaissance plane SR-71 became the famous representative of the heirs of the Archangel, although the A-12 was the founder of this family.
Today we will get acquainted with the A-12, its history and design and try to figure out why it became such an iconic aircraft.

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00:00 - Age of archangels
00:53 - Problems and their solutions
02:54 - GUSTO and OXCART
06:27 - Airframe
09:03 - Landing gear
10:05 - Fuel
14:56 - The heat
17:18 - The turboramjet engines
22:34 - Cockpit and equipment
25:04 - Flight on a meteorite
31:55 - Going out the world