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- p. 6 …267
The Selection of the Lockheed Design... 270
Efforts To Reduce the A-12's Radar…
- p. 7 …319
Advances in Technology... 320
Cooperation With the Air Force... 321
Impact of the Overhead Reconnaissance…
- p. 11 …the CIA developed a successor to the U-2, the A-12 OXCART, but this advanced…
- p. 22 …retired from the Air Force to become the assistant director of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program…
- p. 32 …the development of advanced reconnaissance vehicles. One of the report's key recommendations called for the…
- p. 33 …between the developed and undeveloped nations. This aggressive Soviet foreign policy, combined with advances in nuclear…
- p. 36 …Because of advanced warning from either radar or agents inside British intelligence, the overflight did not…
- p. 58 …secrecy in the new project, Kelly Johnson placed it in Lockheed's Advanced Development facility at…
- p. 65 …His software algorithms made it possible to model lens designs and determine in advance the effects…
- p. 76 advanced gear for the U-2 pilots. David Clark expert Joseph Ruseckas then developed a complex…
- p. 111 …of Soviet advances in long-range bombers and missiles. The initial sighting of the new Soviet…
- p. 114 …Adenauer be informed in advance of US plans to overfly the Soviet Union from bases in…
- p. 152 …Saryshagan later became the center for the development of the Soviet Union's advanced antiballistic missile…
- p. 174 …concentrating on developing the more advanced solid-fueled missiles rather than increasing the number of obsolescent…
- p. 183 …if the Soviet SAMs received sufficient advanced warning, they posed a major threat to the U…
- p. 191 …the cover story that had been prepared and distributed in advance of the mission. The first…
- p. 235 …STPOLLY added the more advanced Lockheed P3A in 1963. Between 1955 and 1967, when the CIA…
- p. 236 supplying the Nationalist Chinese Government with the most advanced reconnaissance aircraft available, the U-2. The…
- p. 249 …The Defense Department feared that the loss of this device with its highly advanced traveling-wave…
- p. 250 Secret NOFORN
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## Advanced ECM Equipment for Detachment H
Demand for overhead photography of the…
- p. 252 …In addition, the Project TACKLE U-2s began receiving even more advanced ECM equipment. $ ^{60} $
- p. 265 …the result of technological advances. The initial order for eight of the new version of the…
- p. 266 …This camera was actually a very advanced version of the original B camera with a new…
- p. 282 …aircraft from the small inventory of its most advanced bomber. Even had the B-58B program…
- p. 295 …In fact, it was an advanced version of the highly reliable B camera developed for the…
- p. 296 …Prospective pilots had to be qualified in the most advanced fighters and be emotionally stable and…
- p. 307 …which he announced the successful development of an "advanced experimental jet aircraft, the A-11, which…
- p. 310 …It was now time to find work for the most advanced aircraft ever conceived and built…
- p. 321 …advanced aircraft ever built was to be put out to pasture. The abandonment of the OXCART…
- p. 325 …As a result, when the OXCART program ended in the summer of 1968, no more advanced…
- p. 326 …The most advanced aircraft of the 20th century had become an anachronism before it was ever…
- p. 333 …The OXCART is an even better example of the technological advances generated by the CIA's…
- p. 334 …the end of the usefulness of the world's most advanced aircraft; its offspring, the SR…
- p. 335 …Thus, the CIA sponsored the development of the world's most advanced aircraft—the OXCART—and…
- p. 352 …They believed that recent advances in the miniaturization of electronic technology would make possible the development…
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OXCART pilot suit
(B-120) characterized by great strength, relatively light weight, and good resistance to high temperatures, but high in cost. As strong as stainless steel, titanium weighed slightly more than half as much. Obtaining sufficient quantities of titanium of a quality suitable for fabricating aircraft components proved very difficult because methods for maintaining good quality control during the milling of titanium were not fully developed. Up to 80 percent of the early deliveries from Titanium Metals Corporation had to be rejected. It was not until 1961, when company officials were informed of the objectives and high priority of the OXCART program, that problems with the titanium supply ended. Even after sufficient high-quality titanium was received, Lockheed's difficulties with the metal were not over. Titanium was so hard that tools normally used in aircraft fabrication broke; new ones therefore had to be devised. Assembly line production was not possible, and the cost of the program mounted well above original estimates. $ ^{22} $
The high temperatures that the OXCART would encounter also necessitated planning for the pilot's safety and comfort because the inside of the aircraft would be like a moderately hot oven. To save
"OXCART Story," p. 5 (S); OSA History, chap. 20, p. 33 (TS Codeword).