“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…
Neptune bomber
3
Privateer patrol aircraft
3
Naval Ordnance Test Station
340
U.S. News and World Report 99
US nuclear test monitoring system 139
US nuclear tests 147
US Senate, Armed Services Committee 88,99,185
US Senate, Foreign Relations Committee 165,185
US 6th Fleet 153
US 7th Fleet 215
USS Kitty Hawk 247
US Intelligence Board (USIB) 196-197,225,228,249,332,336
USS Ranger 250
utility aircraft 66
## V
Vance, Cyrus 238,300,309-310
Venezuela 211
vernier adjustment 76
very-high-acuity lenses 50
Viet Cong 230,243
Vietnam 190,216,221-222,230-231,233-234, 242-243,246,301,304-308,311,336, 342-343
Vito, Carmine 65,105,124-125,214
Vladimirovka, Soviet Union 171
Secret NOFORN
Index
389
Vladivostok, Soviet Union
3, 126
Vogt, Richard
8
Voigt, Woldemar
8
Volga River
22
von Fritsche, Werner
1
## W
WADC's Bombardment Branch 8
Wake Island 305
Walker, Christopher H. 155
wallpaper 130
Walter Reed Hospital 96
Warsaw Pact 87
Washington University, St. Louis 29
Watertown Strip 57
Watton RAF Base. England 156
"weather plane" cover story 179
weather research 85-86,89-90,132,182
Weatherwise 216
Wendover, Utah 295
West Potomac Park 42
Western Europe 20,85,140
Western Hemisphere 211
"wet-wing" design 68