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

'Pentagon seals plane crash site,' San Diego Union, July 12, 1986, sec. A.

462

'Triangle over California,' 6.

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Eric Malnic and Ralph Vartabedian, ' 'Stealth' jet said to crash in California,' Boston Globe, July 12, 1986.

464

'Stealth jet fighter fleet is put at 50,' San Diego Union, August 22, 1986, sec. A; and Cunningham, 'Cracks in the Black Dike,' 26. It has been claimed that the air force dug up a large area around the impact point to recover every scrap of debris, then scattered parts from an F-101 to deceive anyone entering the site. This is incorrect.

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Scott, 'F-117A Crash Reports Cite Pilot Fatigue, Disorientation,' 22, 23.

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Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 47–49, 51–53.

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Scott, 'F-117A Crash Reports Cite Pilot Fatigue, Disorientation,' 22, 23.

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'AF pilot killed in Nevada crash said to be flying Stealth fighter,' San Diego Union, October 16, 1987, sec. A.

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Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 50, 51; and Scott, 'F-117A Crash Reports Cite Pilot Fatigue, Disorientation,' 22.

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'A-7D Crash Accents Different USAF, Navy Emergency Rules,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (November 2, 1987), 31; and Giangreco, Stealth Fighter Pilot, 51.

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Benjamin F. Schemmer, 'Is Lockheed Building a Super-Stealth Replacement for USAF's Mach 3 SR-71?' Armed Forces Journal (January 1988).

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Al Frickey [pseud.], 'Stealth — and Beyond,' Gung-Ho (February 1988), 38.

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'Do It Your Stealth,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (September 14, 1987), 21.

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Doug Richardson, Stealth (New York: Orion, 1989), 122.

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Edwards AFB Air Show, October 23, 1988. The invisible 'F-19' was not the only stealth prank at the show. Around noon, the announcer came on the public address system and said that the B-2 had just taken off from Palmdale and would soon be arriving at Edwards. A few minutes later, it was announced that the B-2 would be making a flyby. One heard the engine noise, but, again, one did not actually 'see' it. The punchline came at the 1993 Edwards Air Show— three B-2s (two in flight, one on the ground), an F-117A