Dark Eagles: A History of the Top Secret U.S. Aircraft

197

McIninch, 'The Oxcart Story,' 45.

198

Ibid., 46–48.

199

Crickman, Lockheed SR-71: The Secret Missions Exposed, 1–8, 34, 41.

200

McIninch, 'The Oxcart Story,' 49, 50. Years later, the SR-71 operations building at Kadena was still known as the 'Oxcart' building. After nearly a quarter century in storage, JP-7 fuel was still found in the A-12 tanks when they were disassembled for transfer to museums. The fuel had not evaporated even after all those years.

201

William Wagner, Lightning Bugs and Other Reconnaissance Drones (Fallbrook, Calif.: Aero Publishers, 1982), 6-14.

202

Ibid., 15–22.

203

Ibid., 23–32.

204

Ibid., 35–41.

205

Dino A. Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1991), 104, 105, 116, 117.

206

Chris Pocock, Dragon Lady: A History of the U-2 Spyplane (Shrewsbury, England: Airlife, 1989), 93, 196.

207

Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 133, 135-40.

208

Ibid., 51, 153, 157, 159, 164, 166, 181-86.

209

Ibid., 187–217.

210

Pocock, Dragon Lady, 78–80.

211

Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 217, 254, 276, 277, 296, 363, 364, 452, 453.

212

'One Minute to Midnight: The Real Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis' (NBC News special, October 24, 1992).