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

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Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, 289.

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Butowski with Miller, OKB MiG, 97.

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Photos of MiG unit patches.

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Butowski with Miller, OKB MiG, 178, 179.

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Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, 138.

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Berry and Schemmer, 'Soviet Jets in USAF Use,' 26, 27.

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Research File 'Groom Lake (Nevada), Area 51 and Project Red Light,' (W. L. Moore Productions, Compiled 1987).

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Butowski with Miller, OKB MiG, 150, 170, 195.

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Michael Skinner, Red Flag: Combat Training in Today's Air Force (New York: Berkley Books, 1989), 28, 29.

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Letters, Aviation Week and Space Technology (December 12, 1988), 146; and Talkback, Air International (March 1993), 157.

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MiG unit patch.

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Air Force Safety Agency, Bond accident report, '[deleted] Aircrew Training, November 1, 1979'; and 'Phase I Ground Training Program' (May 17, 1984). The low utilization rate of the U.S. MiGs is shown by the history of Bond's aircraft. In the three years before the crash, it had logged only 98.2 hours of flight time. Between its filial inspection oh March 15, 1984'and the crash, the plane had flown only 7.2 hours — a little more than one hour per week.

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James C. Goodall, America's Stealth Fighters and Bombers: B-2, F-117, YF-22 and YF- 23 (Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1992), 21; and Don Ecker, 'The Saucers and the Scientist,' UFO, vol. 5, no. 6 (1990), 17.

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Research File 'Groom Lake (Nevada), Area 51 and Project Red Light,' (W. L. Moore Publications: Compiled 1987). If it was a later-model MiG 21, it would indicate that the Egyptian MiGs were being delivered as early as the summer of 1978.

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