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Jim Cunningham, 'Cracks in the Black Dike: Secrecy, the Media, and the F-117A,' Airpower Journal (Fall 1991), 22, 23.

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Washington Roundup, Aviation Week and Space Technology (October 12, 1981), 17.

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Sweetman and Goodall, Lockheed F-117 A, 28. Accounts differed as to why there was no 'F-19.' One version has it that Northrop wanted 'F-20' to symbolize a new generation of fighter. Another was that it was to avoid confusion with the MiG 19. This was not the only skipped F-number. There is no 'F- 13.'

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Benjamin F. Schemmer, 'Stealth Goes Public,' Armed Forces Journal International (October 1983), 23, 24.

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Richard Barnard, 'AF Abandons Stealth Reconnaissance Plane; Deploys Fighter Units,' Defense Week (November 21, 1983), 1, 6.

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Richard Dietrich, 'Design of 'stealth' plane kit a model of intelligence work,' San Diego Tribune, September 12, 1986, A-l.

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Ron Labrecque, 'Alone and without Stealth, John Andrews Makes Child's Play of the Pentagon's Most Secret Weapon,' People (no date on clipping), 127, 128; and Cunningham, 'Cracks in the Black Dike,' 20, 24, 25.

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Washington Roundup, Aviation Week and Space Technology (September 14, 1987), 21.

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Cunningham, 'Cracks in the Black Dike,' 25. The document control problem occurred because of standard Skunk Works practice. When a document was no longer needed, it was destroyed. When the air force showed up to conduct a classified document audit, they discovered there were no records of their destruction. As there was no record, the documents were ruled 'lost.' Later, a desk-by-desk audit system was established.

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Weekly World News, August 2, 1986.

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Cunningham, 'Cracks in the Black Dike,' 25.

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'Triangle over California,' TheAPRO Bulletin (vol. 33, no. 6, 1986), 6.

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William B. Scott, 'F-117A Crash Reports Cite Pilot Fatigue, Disorientation,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (May 15, 1989), 22; and Sweetman and Goodall, Lockheed F-117A, 81, 82.

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