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

289

Wagner, Lightning Bugs and Other Reconnaissance Drones, 24, 25, 191, 192, 197, 199, 200, 209, 213. Much of the original work on the 147SD's systems was actually done for the Model 1241 reconnaissance drone built for Israel in the early 1970s. This was a ground-launched drone able to fly both high- and low-altitude missions.

290

William Wagner and William P. Sloan, Fireflies and other UAVs (Arlington, Tex.: Aerofax, 1992), 36, 37.

291

Ibid., 38–40.

292

Ibid., 40, 41.

293

Ibid., 28–34, 41. Following a U-2 crash in the late 1950s, a small-town newspaper agreed not to publish a photo of the wreckage. By 1969, the press's attitude toward 'security' had changed.

294

'Secret Plane Test Disclosed,' New York Times, August 7, 1969, 24.

295

Wagner and Sloan, Fireflies and other UAVs, 29, 30.

296

Ibid., 42–45.

297

Ibid., 45–47.

298

Jay Miller, Lockheed's Skunk Works: The First Fifty Years (Arlington, Tex.: Aerofax, 1993), 135.

299

Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works (New York: Little Brown, 1994), 263, 264.

300

Interview with Keith Beswick, January 12, 1994.

301

Miller, Lockheed's Skunk Works, 135.

302

Rich and Janos, Skunk Works, 264, 265.

303

'Kelly's Way': The Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works (Edwards AFB: Air Force Flight Test Museum, 1993), videotape.