Archangel: CIA's Supersonic A-12 Reconnaissance AircraftTable of Contents: From Drawing Board to Factory Floor; Lockheed's Aviation Genius; Breaking Through Technological Barriers; Full Stress Testing; Hiding OXCART in Plain Sight; Finding a Mission; A Futile Fight for Survival; References; A-12 Schematic; Timeline of OXCART Milestones; Inventory of A-12s; BLACK SHIELD Missions; The OXCART Family; Bibliography. |
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20 October 303 Committee A-12 missions A-12 program air defenses Air Force Archangel Log Article 131 August aviation Bill Park Bissell BLACK SHIELD Mission BLACK SHIELD Reconnaissance camera Central Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency CIA's cockpit codenamed Collins Convair crash degrees F deploy Director of Central drones DS&T ECMs February feet flew flown inlet J58 engines Jack Layton January July June Kadena Kadena Air Base Kelly Johnson later launch Layton lbs Cruise Mach lbs Fuel Weight Lockheed's Mach Marshall Carter McCone military missile North Korea North Vietnam November Number October officials Okinawa operational operationally ready overflights OXCART aircraft OXCART Mission OXCART program personnel photographs President Johnson problem Pueblo radar Ramjets reconnaissance aircraft refueling Rich and Janos runway Schalk September 1966 SHIELD Reconnaissance Missions Skliar Skunk Soviet Union speed and altitude SR-71 Blackbird Sullivan supersonic target temperatures test flight Titanium Turbojets Vojvodich Zero Fuel Weight