“Nevers”34 pages
- p. 13 …Without their help a good deal of this story could never have become known. The assistance…
- p. 44 …the CL-282; in fact, there may never have been a formal decision as such. In…
- p. 74 …fly, Lockheed engineers had to solve problems never before encountered. Among these problems was the need…
- p. 84 …Flight tests continued, with the U-2 ascending to altitudes never before attained in sustained flight…
- p. 102 …put aside for further thought (which it never received), and Bissell's weather research cover remained…
- p. 138 …William Shelton, raised an important question that had never been considered: what would happen if an…
- p. 147 …Peninsula, because of bad weather and, therefore, never entered Soviet airspace. A second attempt to photograph…
- p. 157 …2 flight over the Black Sea that never violated Soviet airspace revealed 12 attempts at interception…
- p. 159 …Six of the men on board were killed and the remaining 11 were never heard from…
- p. 160 …Although this new Berlin crisis never became as threatening as the blockade of 1948-49, President…
- p. 165 …The Air Force never equipped its original U-2s with the J75 engines. $ ^{106} $
Detachment C…
- p. 189 …Powers never made it past Sverdlovsk. Four and a half hours into the mission, an SA…
- p. 194 …2 program in 1974, but RAF pilots never again conducted an overflight in an Agency U…
- p. 208 …very good reason, and such a situation never developed, in part because satellite photography gradually began…
- p. 210 …Since this never happened, Francis Gary Powers' flight on 1 May 1960 proved to be the…
- p. 223 …Responsibility for photographic coverage of Cuba remained with the Air Force; Agency pilots never flew another…
- p. 227 …Both were experienced with World War II aircraft, although Vito had never flown the rebels' fighter…
- p. 248 …It was short of both pilots and planes and never had more than three U-2s…
- p. 257 …This was an electronic intelligence mission that, in accordance with the new guidelines, never came closer…
- p. 264 Secret NOFORN
Chapter 5
There was never another Agency U-2 mission from an aircraft carrier…
- p. 290 …the OXCART aircraft for its own use, never adopted the laminated vertical stabilizers. $ ^{18} $
## THE OXCART…
- p. 294 …Scott employed concepts never before used in camera systems. These included the use of a reflecting…
- p. 298 …above water. $ ^{29}$ As it turned out, the J58 was never used in a Navy aircraft.
- p. 299 …This new delay was caused by leaking fuel tanks, a problem that would never be solved…
- p. 303 …the J58 had to reach performance levels never before achieved by a jet engine, while operating…
- p. 313 …even though the SKYLARK contingency plan was never put into effect. Since U-2s continued to…
- p. 316 …Moreover, the Soviets never operated the radars in the tracking and lockon modes, a fact that…
- p. 317 …strongly opposed it and the 303 Committee never forwarded the proposal to President Johnson. $ ^{59} $ The…
- p. 318 …The OXCART, which had never operated in heavy rain, taxied to the runway and took off…
- p. 326 …collector of strategic intelligence, the OXCART was never used for this purpose. Its brief deployment was…
- p. 328 …Yet, the President never went so far as to eliminate the overflight program. As Commander in…
- p. 333 …in 1962, its speed and altitude have never been equaled. The development of this aircraft also…
- p. 348 …System-II, a communications and navigation system, never worked properly and was canceled. System-III, a…
- p. 349 …a mission over the Soviet Union that never took place. Systems-XI through XV were ECM…
RB-58 aircraft
22
Reber, James
81, 114-115, 154, 332
reconnaissance
1-9, 12-19, 21-25, 27, 30-37,
39, 41, 43, 46, 49, 52, 55, 59,
61-62, 66, 80, 84, 94, 96, 98, 109,
113, 115-116, 119, 122, 126-127,
133, 153-154, 161-162, 188-193,
196-197, 201, 205-206, 208, 210-212,
216, 222-223, 226, 228, 230-233, 240,
249, 253-254, 260, 262-263, 267-268,
270, 287, 291-292, 295, 297-299, 301,
303-304, 308-309, 311-313, 319-322,
327-331, 333, 339, 341-344
reconnaissance aircraft competition
reconnaissance aircraft competition 9
reconnaissance drones 301
reconnaissance satellite project 161
"reconnaissance strike"
295
Reconnaissance Systems Branch 4
records, altitude 302
records, speed 302
RED DOT
254
reflecting cube 281
reflective system 55
refueling
114, 198-200, 231, 237, 241,
302, 306, 308
refugees 2
Republic RF-84F Thunderflash 22
Research, Directorate of 192,287
Research and Development, Director of 66
Research and Reports (ORR), Office of 21,81,237
Returnee Exploitation Group (REG) 2
Revolutionary Council 212
Index
Ridenour, Louis N.
18
Ridenour Associates, Inc. 18
Ritland, Osmond 56,61,70,78
ROBIN
23
ROBIN HOOD
211
Robinson, Robert 164
rocket planes 60
rocket-powered aircraft 312
Rodgers, Franklin A.
129, 267-268, 274, 332
Rodgers' Effect 267
Rolls-Royce Avon-109 engines 5,23
Romania
101
Root, L. Eugene 9,24
Rose, Wilburn S.
40, 79-80
Ruseckas, Joseph 63
Rusk, Dean 183,201,209,236,293,304,307