“Lockheed”60+ pages
- p. 4 …Search for a New Reconnaissance Aircraft 8
Lockheed CL-282 Supporters and the CIA 13
Scientists…
- 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).
E0129581.131d111>10<25Yrs…
- p. 21 …August 1953, OS1 records (S).
" Jay Miller, Lockheed U-2, Aerograph 3 (Austin, Texas: Aerofax, 1983…
- p. 22 …Immediately after returning to California, Carter proposed to
Lockheed Vice President L. Eugene Root (previously the…
- p. 23 …high-altitude
reconnaissance aircraft
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Lockheed also submit a design. Carter noted that the…
- p. 24 …Miller, Lockheed U-2, p. 12. For more details on Kelly Johnson's original proposal.
see…
- p. 25 12
The Lockheed CL-282
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Development Planning. According to Wienberg, General LeMay…
- p. 26 …Despite the Air Force's selection
of the X-16, Lockheed continued to work on the…
- p. 27 …six days before the Wright Air Development Command
began to evaluate the Lockheed proposal. Gardner described…
- p. 28 …range are not as good as the
Lockheed CL-282.
Gardner's enthusiasm for the CL…
- 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 …Chapter 1
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briefly mention a Lockheed design for a high-flying aircraft at the
24…
- 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 ar-
gued that the Bell…
- 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 reconnais-
sance…
- p. 52 …afternoon of 3 December, they
Although the Lockheed CL-282 was not designated as the U…
- p. 53 …Eventually Bissell asked who was
going to pay for the airframes to be built by Lockheed…
- p. 55 …This category in-
cluded maintenance personnel from Lockheed (five per
aircraft), the pilots, and support personnel…
- p. 57 …Then on 22 December 1954, the Agency
signed a letter contract with Lockheed, using the codename…
- p. 58 …The U-2 would have a
The Lockheed "Skunk Works" was named after the Kickapoo Joy…
- p. 59 …Johnson, -A High-Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft, - 9 December 1954,
Lockheed Contract Files, OSA Records (S).
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- p. 61 …Reconnaissance Aircraft, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Report 10420. 28 January 1955.
pp. 7-9, OSA Recordsi \ (5…
- p. 63 …1954, even before the CIA adopted
the Lockheed proposal. Baker quickly recognized, however, that he
would…
- p. 69 …Miller, Lockheed U-2. pp. 19-20.
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- p. 74 …aircraft—remained the ex-
clusive province of Lockheed:9
As a result of this agreement, CIA…
- 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 …former director of Lockheed's Skunk Works,
to Donald E. Welzenbach, 14 March 1986 (U): Miller…
- p. 84 …7 (TS Codeword); Miller, Lockheed U-2, p. 22.
OSA History, chap. 8, pp. 12-14…
- p. 85 …how to transfer Lockheed employees
from Burbank to Iwithout arousing a great deal of curiosity.
The…
- p. 88 …Colonel Yancey was in charge of six SAL 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 Sicker bailed out but was struck…
- p. 145 …The loss of one of Lockheed's best test pilots, as well as the pro-
totype…
- p. 157 …As a substitute,
Lockheed began working to develop a paint with radar-suppressant
qualities, but this…
- p. 162 …a series of tests over Edwards AFB. Lockheed began coating
the 11-2s with a standard…
- p. 188 …Although it haL refurbished by
Lockheed and now had the more powerful 175 engine that would…
- p. 200 …Beschloss claims that Powers was fired by Lockheed
for criticizing the Agency in his memoirs (which…
- p. 209 …Some poetic justice in this.'
One week later Colonel Geary called to order Lockheed to up…
- 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…
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Late in 1958, Lockheed began refitting the Agency's 13 remaining
U…
- p. 264 …1966 decided to place an order with Lockheed for ei g ht more aircraft
to be…
- 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. 273 …SP-1362, "History of the OXCART Program,"
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA. 1 July 1968, p…
- p. 275 …Personnel at Lockheed's Skunk Works referred to
these aircraft concepts as "Archangel-1," "Archangel-2…
- p. 276 RN
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Johnson, "Archangel log," 17-24
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Lockheed design for a hydrogen…
- p. 280 …During the first half of 1959, both Lockheed and Convair
worked to reduce the radar cross…
- p. 281 …In early June, Lockheed submitted a design for a ground-launched
aircraft known as the A…
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launched to take advantage of a newly discovered change in the
west-to-east jet stream. Normally, this fast-moving air current stayed
at an altitude of 55,000 feet, but, during June and July, it turned
abruptly upward over the Bering Sea just west of Alaska, climbed to
110,000 feet, and then reversed direction. One of the key arguments
that convinced the President to approve the project was Quarles's
claim that the balloons' "chance of being detected is rather small and
their identification or shootdown practically nil." 96
Release of the balloons took place from an aircraft carrier in the
Bering Sea on 7 July 1958. Nothing was heard about them until 28
July, when Poland sent a note protesting the overflight of a US-made,
camera-carrying balloon that had fallen to earth in central Poland.
The loss of this balloon was because of human error. Each balloon
was equipped with a timing device that would cause it to drop its
camera and film payload after crossing the target areas. An Air Force
technician aboard the aircraft carrier had calculated that the balloons
should cross the Eurasian landmass in about 16 days. Thus, he ad-
justed regulators aboard the balloons to cause automatic descent after
400 hours aloft. When bad weather delayed the launch for three suc-
cessive days, however, the technician forgot to reset the timing de-
vices. As a result, one payload fell into Poland. None of the three
WS-461L balloon payloads was recovered."
The Polish protest was quickly followed by a Soviet note pro-
testing the balloons' violation of the Soviet Union's airspace. Several
months later, the Soviets placed the US balloon and photographic
equipment on display in Moscow for the world's press. President
Eisenhower was angry that the Defense Department's assurances that
the balloons would not be detected had proved false. Even worse, one
of the balloons had been recovered by the Poles because the Air Force
had disobeyed his instructions for the balloon project. When the Air
Force had proposed the use of timers to bring down the balloons at
the end of the mission, Eisenhower had said no, fearing that a mal-
function could cause the balloons to come down prematurely. Furious
at the Air Force's insubordination, the President ordered General
Andrew J. Goodpaster, Memorandum for the Record. 25 June 1958, WHOSS, Alpha,
DDEL (TS).
Donald E. Welzenbach, "Observation Balloons and Weather Satellites," Studies in
Intelligence 30 (Spring 1986): pp. 26-28 (S).
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