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

736

Peter Grier, 'The (Tacit) Blue Whale,' Air Force Magazine, (August 1996): 51– 55.

737

Michael A. Dornheim, 'Testbed For Stealth,' Aviation Week & Space Technology (May 6, 1996): 20,21.

738

David A. Fulghum, 'Secret Flights In 1980s Tested Stealth Reconnaissance,' Aviation Week & Space Technology (May 6,1996): 20,21, and 'Air Force answers questions on 'Tacit Blue' program,' Northrop Grumman Newsbriefs (May 13, 1996): 2–4.

739

Private Sources. The 'F-121's' antigravity motor was claimed to have come from captured UFO technology. The 'F-121' was featured in an early episode of The X-Files. It features a Groom Lake- like base (in the mid-west!).

740

'Mach 4, 200,000-Ft.-Altitude Aircraft Defined,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (January 29, 1979), 141.

741

Craig Covault, 'Advanced Bomber, Missile in Definition,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (January 29, 1979), 113, 121.

742

Rene Francillon, Lockheed Aircraft Since 1913 (London: Putnam, 1982).

743

''Unclassified' report brings no comment,' San Diego Union, February 10, 1985, sec. A; and Michael G. Crutch, 'Project Aurora: The Evidence So Far,' Aviation News (9- 22 October 1992), 496.

744

'Swift, high-flying new Stealth jet being developed,' San Diego Union, January 10, 1988, sec. A.

745

Benjamin F. Schemmer, 'Is Lockheed Building a Super-Stealth Replacement for USAF's Mach 3 SR-71?' Armed Forces Journal (January 1988). This article was the first to use the term 'F-117' for the stealth fighter.

746

Al Frickey [pseud.], 'Stealth — and Beyond,' Gung-Ho (February 1988), 37–43. The article claimed that aircraft had been developed that could change color to match their background and self-correct battle damage in flight. It also claimed that the F-117 did not have an inflight refueling receptacle, as such a fixture could not be made stealthy.

747

Timothy Good, Alien Contact (New York: William Morrow, 1993), 255.

748

Elaine de Man, 'Shooting the Stealth,' Air and Space (August/September 1990), 93.

749

'Multiple Sightings of Secret Aircraft Hint at New Propulsion, Airframe Designs,' Aviation Week and Space Technology (October 1, 1990), 23.