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- p. 6 …Project OXCART, 1956-1968
The Evaluation of Designs for a Successor to the U-2 260…
- p. 22 …retired from the Air Force to become the assistant director
of Lockheed's Advanced Development Program…
- p. 24 ORN
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gravity (g's) instead of the military…
- p. 27 …He later advanced to the rank of brigadier general in the reserve.
For Strong's contacts…
- p. 32 …lithium deuteride, a tech-
nology more advanced than the heavy water method used by US
BEACON…
- p. 33 …between the
developed and undeveloped nations. This aggressive Soviet foreign
policy, combined with advances in nuclear…
- p. 58 …secrecy in the new project, Kelly Johnson
placed it in Lockheed's Advanced Development facility at…
- p. 65 …His software algorithms made it possible to model
lens designs and determine in advance the effects…
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advanced gear for the U-2 pilots. David Clark expert…
- p. 111 …of Soviet
advances in long-range bombers and missiles. The initial sighting of
the new Soviet…
- p. 114 …Adenauer be informed in advance of US plans to
overfly the Soviet Union from bases in…
- p. 174 …concentrating on developing the
more advanced solid-fueled missiles rather than increasing the num-
ber of…
- p. 191 …the cover story that had been prepared and distributed in advance of
the mission. The first…
- p. 250 …so
urgent that the Defense Department finally re ente
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Advanced ECM Equipment for
Demand…
- p. 265 …the U-2R needed a camera that incorporated the many im-
portant advances that had occurred…
- p. 266 …This camera
was actually a very advanced version of the original B camera with a
new…
- p. 282 …aircraft from
the small inventory of its most advanced bomber. Even had the B-58B
program…
- p. 295 …In fact, it was an advanced version of the highly reliable
B camera developed for the…
- p. 307 …he an-
nounced the successful development of an -advanced experimental
jet aircraft, the A-11. which…
- p. 310 …It was now time to find
work for the most advanced aircraft ever conceived and built…
- p. 321 …advanced aircraft ever built was to be put out to pasture. The aban-
donment of the…
- p. 325 …when the OXCART program
ended in the summer of 1968, no more advanced successor was wait…
- p. 326 …The most advanced aircraft
of the 20th century had become an anachronism before it was ever…
- p. 333 …ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY
One very important byproduct of the CIA's manned reconnaissance
program was the…
- p. 334 …the end of the usefulness of the world's most
advanced aircraft; its offspring, the SR…
- p. 335 …Thus,
the CIA sponsored the development of the world's most advanced
aircraft—the OXCART—and…
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First flight of the U-2,
4 August 1955
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With Kelly Johnson watching from a chase plane and giving a con-
stant stream of instructions, LeVier made three more unsuccessful
landing attempts. With the light fading and a thunderstorm fast ap-
proaching from the mountains to the west, LeVier made one last ap-
proach using the method he had advocated: letting the aircraft touch
on its rear wheel first. This time the U-2 made a near-perfect landing,
which came just in the nick of time. Ten minutes later, the thunder-
storm began dumping an unheard-of 2 inches of rain, flooding the dry
lakebed and making the airstrip unusable.''
Now that the first problems in flying and landing the U-2 had
been worked out, Kelly Johnson scheduled the "official" first flight
for 8 August 1955. This time outsiders were present, including
Richard Bissell, Col. Osmond Ritland, Richard Horner, and Garrison
Norton. The U-2 flew to 32,000 feet and performed very well. Kelly
Johnson had met his eight-month deadline."
" Ibid.. pp. 21-22: Johnson, "Log for Project X," 4 August 1955.
" Johnson. "Log for Project X," 8 August 1955.
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