£0 12958 3.3(b) (1) >25¥r8 (s) MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence RU + DDIR suBsECT: + OXCART Progren eS . z le te official first flight of CXCART snl? Mreraftt fl, uifltsing Pratt & Whttney J-75 engines with efterbumer, took place at| Nevada, the morning of 30 April 1962. ‘the aircraft piloted by Loskheed AMreraft Corporation test pilot, Mr. Loula Schalk was taken off at 170 knots per hour, at a gross weight af 72,000 1bs., and climbed to 30,000 feet. A speed of 340 knots wes indicated on clinh out but due to @ minor problem, involving @ fairing benting, the sireraft speed for the flight ves held to @ limit of 250 knots. During flight, instrumentetion calibration and preliminary stebility end control checks were made. ‘The aircraft stebility ani augmentation systen was tumed off during flight and yeweroll (lateral directionel coupling) was checked. ‘he aircraft handled exceptionally vell in these maneuvers dow to very low speeds. ‘the test was concluied after 59 minutes of flight with touchdown of the aircraft on the runvay occuring at s speed of 170 knots per hour. ‘The pilot, Mr. Schalk, reports thet the aircraft feels good in all regimes tested, bss good responce to contrels and is extremely steble with or without stebility eugnentors in the speed regimes tested, Minor squeaks concerning the aircraft, requiring corrective action, included: (ada ‘vent fairing (corrected either by spring-losding or beefing up the fairing). (bo) Two slightly Graging wheel brakes requiring adjustment, and, (¢) edjust- ment of a rudder trim actuator, Mr. C. L. Johnson, designer of the OXCART aircraft, reports this to be the smoothest official first flight of any APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE: AUG 2007‘streraft be has designed end tested. Photographs of OXCART Atreraft fi in flight are attached to this report. 2, The second test flight of OKCART A-12 Aircraft #2 conducted 4A May, with Mr. Louis Schalk, Lockheed test pilot at the controls, was satisfactorily completed after # total of one hour end twelve minutes in the air. take off occured at a gross weight of 77,300 lbs. with @ repid clinb-out to « scheduled altitude of 40,000 feet and scheduled altitude of 40,000 feet and scheduled maximm speed of 340 kote per hour indicated. Actual top speed for the flight was mach 1.1 et 110,000 feet. ‘The atreraft was checked throughout the transonic range and performed exceptionally well. In low subsonie ranges, the atreraft performance vas excellent. Gross evaluation vas male of single engine performance ani handling characteristics at altitutes from 7,000 to 30,000 feet. Wo atreraft problens were encountered duxing the flight exeept @ minor instrumentation problem relating to @ fuel tank venting system. According to Mr. Q. L. Johnson the eireraft performed well ‘throughout the flight renge covered thus fer in tests, 3+ Three test flights of Aircraft #1 are scheduled for 8 Nay. Within three weeks test flights ere scheduled in the mach 2.2 enf up to 60,000 feet areas. OXCART Aircraft #2, the AR(anti radar) configured aircraft, ie scheduled for delivery in June 1962 end intensive ground pole testing on the anti-ratar test range to be followed by extensive flight tests.ERODE STATUS 4, tthe Pratt end Whitney JTLLD-20 (358 CKCART configuration) engine develoguent progran is now in the phase of intensive ground endurmee tenting preparatory to flight qualificstion, Four 50 hour preliminary endurance engine tests have been completed. of the nine engines in the developaent program, five now are on test with the other four being overhauled preparatary to further testing. Test tine ecoumlation now stends as follows: Total Engine Time (Various J-58 configurations) 3833 hours Afterturner ‘Tine 548 hours JTLID-20 Configuration Time 1030 hours Mach 1.5 Temperature Ee hours Mach 2.0 Temperature Time '3 hours Mach 3.0 Teuperature 89 hours ‘Turbine 276 hours Bngta Tine With buvountle, Contrels 295 hours Significant progress has been realized since Fevruary 1962 in the major problem area of hydraulic pump durability, coubusion teuperature distribu- ‘tion ax it affects turbine durability, end engine controls development. Further engine development anf endurance testing is required in orier to eateblish flightworthiness, The officiel 50 hour preliminary flight rating test to establish flight worthiness 1s scheduled for June 1962. A strong effort is being made to accelerate the development end testing program, Also, back-up alternate design work has been accelerated on key engine components as insurance to the program, An efiditional hot test stend fectlity has been authorized st Pratt & Wiitmey's Florida test center end a mofification of a test stend at the Pratt and Whitney willgoos facility in Connecticut to accomodate the J-50 engine in onler ‘to speed up endurance engine testing. S Production delivery engines ere on or slightly shed of schedule at this time. ‘the first production engine targeted for a 30 June 1962passed the initial acceptance test anf now is being resssenbled for the | final aceeptance test. ‘The second engine targeted for @ 31 July 1962 delivery has been ssseubled anf is being prepared for en initial. accep- tance test rm. ‘he third ani fourth production engines are an schedule, Cal. Beerli Avtochuent: