Clarence L. 'Kelly' Johnson with Maggie Smith, Kelly: More Than My Share of It All (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985), 96–98.
Curtis Peebles, Guardians (Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1987), chap. 1.
Paul F. Crickmore, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (Osceola, Wis.: Motorbooks, 1986), 9.
Curtis Peebles, The Moby Dick Project (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 99, 100, 119, 120.
Paul Lashmar, 'Skulduggery at Scuhhorpe,' Aeroplane Monthly, (October 1994): 10–15.
Robert Jackson, Canberra: The Operational Record (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 60. These early overflights took advantage of the commitment of the Soviet air force to the Korean War. The first Soviet MiG 15s saw action in November 1950. Between then and the spring of 1953, when the Soviet 'Honchos' were withdrawn, a full twelve air divisions had seen action. The result was to strip the western Soviet Union of air defenses. The story is told of an RB-45C that overflew Moscow.
Richard H. Kohn and Joseph P. Harahan, ed., Strategic Air Warfare (Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1988), 95, 96. The mission was as much a show of force as it was for reconnaissance. Strategic Air Command chief Gen. Curtis E. LeMay later said that the loss rate of SAC bombers, had there been a war with the Soviet Union during the 1950s, would have been no higher than that of the peacetime accident rate.
Jay Miller, Lockheed U-2 (Austin, Tex.: Aerofax, 1983), 10–12.
Jay Miller, The X-Planes: X-l toX-31 (New York: Orion, 1988), 131-33.
Miller, Lockheed U-2, 12, 15–18.
Central Intelligence Agency, Memorandum for Record, Subject: Special Aircraft for Penetration Photo Reconnaissance, (Washington, D.C.: May 12, 1954).
Chris Pocock, Dragon Lady: The History of the U-2 Spyplane (Shrewsbury, England: Airlife, 1989), 8.
Edwin H. Land, Memorandum for: Director of Central Intelligence, Subject: A Unique Opportunity for Comprehensive Intelligence (Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, B.C.: November 5, 1954).
A. J. Goodpaster, Memorandum of Conference with the President (Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kans.: November 24, 1954).
