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The Lockheed/ Boeing/ General Dynamics YF-22 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The design team, with Lockheed as the prime contractor, was a finalist in the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition, and two prototypes were built ...
YF119-PW-100L: Prototype engine for the YF-22; rated 30,000 lbf thrust class. YF119-PW-100N: Prototype engine for the YF-23; rated 30,000 lbf thrust class. F119-PW-100: Production engine for the F-22A with larger fan and increased bypass ratio (BPR) rated for 35,000 lbf thrust class. YF119-PW-611: Prototype engine for the X-35.
The engine for the YF-22 featured a two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzle that could vector in the pitch direction. This capability gave the aircraft a serious advantage in pitch agility by greatly increasing the amount of nose pitching moment available to the aircraft.
The aircraft had single-expansion ramp nozzles (SERN) and, unlike the YF-22, did not employ thrust vectoring. [29] As on the B-2, the exhaust from the YF-23's engines flowed through troughs in the aft deck lined with heat-abating tiles to shield the engines from infrared homing (IR) missile detection from below.
The first YF-23 with P&W engines supercruised at Mach 1.43 on 18 September 1990 and the second YF-23 with GE engines reached Mach 1.72 on 29 November 1990. [N 11] [54] [56] The first YF-22 with GE engines achieved Mach 1.58 in supercruise and the second YF-22 with P&W engines also achieved Mach 1.43. Maximum speed of both prototype designs in ...
General Electric developed a variable cycle engine, known as the GE37 or General Electric YF120, for the YF-22/YF-23 fighter aircraft competition, in the late 1980s. GE used a double bypass/hybrid fan arrangement, but never disclosed how they exploited the concept.
The V-22 Osprey is a troop transport with a helicopter's versatility and a turboprop's speed. But the V-22 has crashed several times since becoming operational in 2007, killing over 50 people.
The YF-22 and YF-23 in formation during flight testing in the early 1990s The squadron was first activated as the 6511th Test Squadron in March 1989 to conduct the Advanced Tactical Fighter program. It began flying the Northrop YF-23 on 27 August and the Lockheed YF-22 on 29 September 1990, flying both through December 1990, though the ...