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

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Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 17, 22, 185.

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Pocock, Dragon Lady, 10–14.

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Miller, Lockheed U-2, 19, 20.

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U.S. Air Force Oral History Interviews, Maj. Gen. Osmond J. Ritland, March 19–24, 1974, vol. 1, 142-44 (Edwards AFB History Office, Ritland Files).

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Brackley Shaw, 'Origins of the U-2: Interview with Richard M. Bissell Jr.,' Air Power History (Winter 1989): 18.

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Clarence L. 'Kelly' Johnson and Maggie Smith, Kelly: More Than My Share of It All (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985), 122, 123.

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Pocock, Dragon Lady, 14.

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Miller, Lockheed U-2, 20.

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Johnson and Smith, Kelly, 123-25.

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Skip Holm, 'Article Airborne,' Air Progress Aviation Review (1986): 25–29. Different sources give contradictory dates for the U-2's first flight.

This article is composed of the transcripts of the radio communications, notes, and LeVier's postflight reports.

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Pocock, Dragon Lady, 15.

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Miller, Lockheed U-2, 22, 23.

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Pocock, Dragon Lady, 19, 20; and Kenneth W. Weir, 'The U-2 Story,' Society of Experimental Test Pilots 1978 Report to the Aerospace Profession, 186. Officially U-2 stood for 'Utility,' a cover for its reconnaissance role (much as the 'X' was a cover for the X-16).

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Shaw, 'Interview with Bissell,' 18.

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Pocock, Dragon Lady, 16, 17, 20–23. The X-16 cancellation was also a case of history repeating itself — although Bell had invented the Black airplane with the XP-59A, it was Lockheed's P-80 that won the production