“Lockheed”60+ pages
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Lockheed CL-282 Supporters and the CIA... 13
Scientists and Overhead Reconnaissance... 17
The BEACON…
- p. 6 …260
Competition Between Lockheed and Convair... 267
The Selection of the Lockheed Design... 270
Efforts To…
- p. 12 …excellent technical study of the U-2: Lockheed U-2 (1983).
There has also been a…
- p. 22 …Immediately after returning to California, Carter proposed to Lockheed Vice President L. Eugene Root (previously the…
- p. 23 …competition for a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft
Lockheed also submit a design. Carter noted that the…
- p. 24 …it to General Schriever, who then asked Lockheed to submit a specific proposal. In early April…
- p. 25 …Seaberg and his colleagues carefully evaluated the Lockheed submission and finally rejected it in early June…
- p. 26 …Despite the Air Force's selection of the X-16, Lockheed continued to work on the…
- p. 27 …Proposals for special reconnaissance aircraft have been received in the Air Staff from Lockheed, Fairchild, and…
- p. 28 …range are not as good as the Lockheed CL-282. $ ^{23} $
Gardner's enthusiasm for the…
- p. 29 …Few details about Dulles's precise attitude toward the proposed Lockheed reconnaissance aircraft are available, but…
- p. 30 …At this point, the summer of 1954, Lockheed's CL-282 proposal still lacked official support…
- p. 37 …ISP chairman Baker then urged Donovan to travel to southern California to evaluate the Lockheed design…
- p. 39 …Thus, even though the Lockheed CL-282 had several important sources of support by September 1954…
- p. 40 …Council.46
## Project Three Support for the Lockheed CL-282
Even before the final Technological Capabilities…
- p. 42 …Agency. $ ^{49} $
Land learned the details of Lockheed's proposed CL-282 aircraft soon after he…
- p. 43 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 1
briefly mention a Lockheed design for a high-flying aircraft at the…
- p. 44 …During September and October the Project Three study group met frequently to discuss the Lockheed design…
- p. 47 …The Lockheed super glider will fly at 70,000 feet, well out of the reach of…
- p. 48 …Putt, to oppose the adoption of the Lockheed design. The officials argued that the Bell X…
- p. 49 …He used Gardner's statement to convince Lockheed's senior management to approve the project, which…
- p. 50 …small group of prominent scientists that the Lockheed design represented the best possible overhead reconnaissance system…
- p. 53 …Eventually Bissell asked who was going to pay for the airframes to be built by Lockheed…
- p. 55 …This category included maintenance and support personnel from Lockheed (five per aircraft), the pilots, and support…
- p. 56 …to be settled, including the contract with Lockheed. Nevertheless, work on the U-2 began as…
- p. 57 …A general contractor such as Lockheed can purchase much, if not all, of the supplies needed…
- p. 58 …During the final contract negotiations in the spring of 1958, Lockheed and the US Government agreed…
- p. 63 …1954, even before the CIA adopted the Lockheed proposal. Baker quickly recognized, however, that he would…
- p. 69 …in a small Beechcraft plane piloted by Lockheed's chief test pilot, Tony LeVier. They spotted…
- p. 70 …By July 1955 the base was ready, and Agency, Air Force, and Lockheed personnel began moving…
- p. 74 project—the construction and testing of the aircraft—remained the exclusive province of Lockheed. $ ^{29} $
As…
- p. 77 …The first model of the pressure suit, used by Lockheed test pilots, made no provision for…
- p. 79 …Geary told Culbertson that the Lockheed CL-282 was going to be known officially as the…
- p. 81 …runway took the plane to 50 knots. Lockheed's chief test pilot, Tony LeVier, was at…
- p. 84 …article 341 before moving on to other Lockheed flight test programs in early September. This first…
- p. 85 …how to transfer Lockheed employees from Burbank to Area 51 without arousing a great deal of…
- p. 88 …Colonel Yancey was in charge of six SAC pilots who were to be trained by Lockheed…
- p. 90 …CIA, which then placed an order with Lockheed for 29 U-2s in configurations to be…
- p. 107 …U-2 cover story stating that a Lockheed-developed aircraft would be flown by the USAF…
- p. 143 …Lockheed mechanics had mounted the various RAINBOW devices on the prototype U-2, a Lockheed test…
- p. 144 …Unable to restart the power plant, Lockheed test pilot Robert Sieker bailed out but was struck…
- p. 145 …The loss of one of Lockheed's best test pilots, as well as the prototype "dirty…
- p. 157 …As a substitute, Lockheed began working to develop a paint with radar-suppressant qualities, but this…
- p. 162 …After a series of tests over Edwards AFB, Lockheed began coating the U-2s with a…
- p. 188 …Although it had been refurbished by Lockheed and now had the more powerful J75 engine that…
- p. 199 …In the meantime Powers began working for Lockheed as a U-2 pilot. In March 1963…
- p. 209 …Some poetic justice in this. $ ^{2} $
One week later Colonel Geary called to order Lockheed to…
- p. 211 …In May 1961, Lockheed began modifying Agency U-2s so that they could be refueled in…
- p. 220 …story, which was that its pilots were Lockheed employees on a ferry flight to Puerto Rico…
- p. 230 …2Cs for Detachment C
Late in 1958, Lockheed began refitting the Agency's 13 remaining U…
- p. 235 …STPOLLY added the more advanced Lockheed P3A in 1963. Between 1955 and 1967, when the CIA…
- p. 236 …U-2 missions, and the Air Force, which had
Lockheed P-2V7 and P3A reconnaissance aircraft
- p. 238 …The planes were maintained by Lockheed mechanics under contract to the CIA. The Agency attempted to…
- p. 255 …All Air Force and CIA U-2s were ordered back to Lockheed for ultrasonic inspection of…
- p. 260 …The Agency dispatched several pilots to Taiwan under the cover of Lockheed employees working on a…
- p. 264 …G in California-with three more at Lockheed undergoing repair. The Agency had originally ordered 20…
- p. 265 …Francis Gary Powers was one of the Lockheed test pilots who checked out this new aircraft…
- p. 266 …began coming off the production line at Lockheed in-the autumn of 1968, CIA and the…
- p. 275 …Personnel at Lockheed's Skunk Works referred to these aircraft concepts as "Archangel-1," "Archangel-2…
- p. 276 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 6
Lockheed design for a hydrogen-powered aircraft (the CL-400). The committee…
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Secret NOFORN
Chapter 3
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facilities available, and the film had to be flown to Wiesbaden, adding a 10- to 15-hour delay. During the gradual buildup of the crisis, this delay had been tolerated, but, once actual hostilities broke out, US decisionmakers needed a more rapid response. On 29 October, Richard Bissell ordered Lundahl to establish a film-processing facility at Adana. Two PID employees went to Adana on 13 November to set up the facility, and two photointerpreters moved from Wiesbaden to Adana to help in the effort. Forward processing was, however, hampered by the location of the Adana facility on a flat, arid plain in southern Turkey, 35 miles from the Mediterranean at the very end of a long supply line.
The PID team obtained and outfitted a trailer for film processing, but many problems had to be overcome. The first major problem was obtaining enough clean water. Detachment B personnel, therefore, purchased large amounts of borax locally for use in purifying water. In fact, they bought so much borax on the local market that one of them was arrested by the Turkish police, who believed he was using the chemical to make drugs. It was also difficult to obtain a constant source of developers and fixers for processing the U-2 film, since the large Air Force supply facility at Wheelus AFB in Libya refused to provide the needed photographic chemicals. When PID personnel accompanied processed film from Turkey to the United States, they returned to Turkey sitting atop cartons of chemicals for the next day's processing. At first, film was developed in improvised tanks using flimsy wooden spools and hand-turned cranks to move the film through the solutions. Later, the Adana facility moved from its trailer to a building and received more up-to-date processing equipment. As was the case with the photo lab in Germany, the Adana lab's personnel came from the Agency and the armed forces. $ ^{57} $
The need to produce very timely intelligence diminished after the British and French agreed to a cease-fire on 7 November 1956. By the end of the month, foreign troops began evacuating Egyptian territory, and the pressure on the Adana photointerpretation unit eased. The facility remained in existence, however, and was used twice in December 1956 and 11 times in the first half of 1957. It was then placed in caretaker status, for emergency use only.