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

722

Steve Douglass, 'Project Black: The hunt for secret stealth aircraft,' Intercepts Newsletter (December/January 1992/1993), 2.

723

Al Frickey [pseud.], 'Stealth — and Beyond,' Gung-Ho (February 1988), 41. The article makes a number of dubious claims — that the July 1986 crash near Bakersfield did not involve a stealth fighter, but rather a plane 'that was more conventional, but just as black,' or that the stealth fighter would be deployed in flight from a C-5. The rear doors would open, the stealth fighter would be extended out into the airflow on a hook, the wings would unfold, and it would be released. Once the mission was completed, another C-5 would make a midair pickup. This article also claimed the D-21 had a top speed of Mach 5. It also referred to Aurora and the possibility of captured flying saucers at Groom Lake.

724

Bill Sweetman and James Goodall, Lockheed F-117 (Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1990), 27, 28.

725

Private sources.

726

John W. R. Taylor, ed., Jane's All The World's Aircraft (London: Jane's Publishing Co., 1984), 439.

727

Douglass, 'Project Black,' 2.

728

'Multiple Sightings of Secret Aircraft,' 22.

729

'TR-3A Evolved from Classified Prototypes, Based on Tactical Penetrator Concept,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (June 10, 1991), 20.

730

Gregory T. Pope, 'America's Secret Aircraft,' Popular Mechanics (December 1991), 34.

731

'Multiple Sightings of Secret Aircraft,' 22; and Pope, 'America's Secret Aircraft,' 34.

732

Pope, 'America's Secret Aircraft,' 34, 109.

733

Private source. The author was given a drawing and a description of the 'F-121.'

734

Steve Douglass, 'Special Report: New Sightings and Evidence Reveal Existence of New Black Aircraft,' (n.p., 1994).

735

Private sources.