“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…
## Secret NOFORN
Index
390
WHALE TALE
247, 249
Wheelon, Albert (Bud)
240, 287, 333
Wheelus AFB
121
White House
33, 43, 97, 109, 111-112, 120, 122,
128, 154, 172, 186, 189
Wienberg, Charles F. (Bud)
7, 11-12
Wiesbaden, Germany
80, 95, 104-105, 108, 114-115,
120-121
Wiesner, Jerome B.
37
Williams, John J.
185
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
222
Wilson, Charles
126
wind currents
87
wind tunnels
269
wing teeth
277
wings
5, 8, 11, 23-25, 42, 45, 47, 66, 68,
72, 75-76, 80, 89, 95, 129, 148-149,
199, 242, 248, 251, 271, 274, 277,
286, 312, 340
wiretaps
2
Wonsan Harbor
307
Worcester, Massachusetts
62
world press
85, 122
World War I
1
World War II
1-2, 4, 7-8, 13, 15, 17, 22, 42,
49, 56, 62, 87, 95, 97, 124, 135,
214, 222, 232, 317, 322, 327-331
Wright Air Development Command
4-5,8,12,14,18,35,73
Wright-Patterson
73
WRINGER
2
WS-461L
144-145
Wu-ch'ang, China
228
## X
XF-104
(See Lockheed Day Fighter)
X-16
9, 13, 15, 26, 34-35
X-band radar pulses
335
X-rays
291
## Y
YAK-25RM
(See Mandrake)
YAK-26
(See Mandrake)
Yakovlev
148
Yakovlev-25
148
Yale University
15
Yancey, William F.
75, 77-78
YC-97 Boeing Stratocruiser
13
Yerevan, Soviet Union
124
YF-12A
285, 291, 294, 308
50z(See also AF-12)
Yokota AFB, Japan
134
## Secret