“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
Chapter 1
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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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Chapter 1
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
Chapter 6
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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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This statement had been prepared for a "best case" scenario, that
is to say, one in which neither the pilot nor the plane and film sur-
vived. However, pilots had bailed out from extremely high altitudes
and survived, and there was even evidence from previous U-2 crashes
that much of the aircraft itself could be salvaged. The small destruc-
tive charge aboard the U-2 was not sufficient to destroy much more
than the camera. The tightly rolled film, which could reveal the exact
purpose of the mission even if the pilot and aircraft did not survive,
was very hard to destroy. Kelly Johnson later conducted an experi-
ment that revealed film taken out of a completely burned-out aircraft
could still provide usable imagery." After almost four years of suc-
cessful U-2 missions, Richard Bissell and the rest of the Development
Projects Division had become overconfident and were not prepared
for the -worst case" scenario that actually occurred in May 1960.
This failure played directly into the hands of Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev, who shrewdly decided to release information about the
downed U-2 a little at a time, thereby encouraging the United States
to stick with its vulnerable cover story too long. As he later wrote,
"Our intention here was to confuse the government circles of the
United States. As long as the Americans thought the pilot was dead,
they would keep putting out the story that perhaps the plane had acci-
dentally strayed off course and been shot down in the mountains on
the Soviet side of the border." '4 The first word from the Soviet Union
came on Thursday, 5 May, when Premier Khrushchev announced to a
meeting of the Supreme Soviet that a US "spyplane" had been
downed near Sverdlovsk. He made no mention of the fate of its pilot.
Khrushchev's announcement aroused considerable interest in the
media in the United States, and that same day the State Department
and NASA issued another statement that continued the "weather
plane" cover story, adding that the pilot became lost during a routine
mission near the Caucasus Mountains. Soon afterward, the US
Ambassador to Moscow cabled a report to the State Department indi-
cating that the pilot might be alive after all. Two days later, on 7 May
1960, Khrushchev confirmed this report by revealing that the U-2 pi-
lot was alive and had admitted his mission of spying on the Soviet
Union.
" Geary interview.
Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, p. 507.
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