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DARK EAGLES

Curtis Peebles

PRESIDIO

A History of Top Secret US, Aircraft Programs

Revised Edition

This revised edition printed 1999

Published by Presidio Press

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Novato,CA 94945-1340

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Peebles, Curtis.

Dark Eagles : a history of top secret U.S. aircraft programs / by Curtis

Peebles.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-89141-535-1 (hardcover)

ISBN 0-89141-696-X (paperback)

1. Aeronautics, Military—Research—United States—History. 2. Air-

planes, Military—United States—History. 3. Defense information, Classified—

United States. I. Title.

UG643.P44 1995

623.7'46'0973—dc20

95-11086

CIP

Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Introduction

1 The First Black Airplane:

The XP-59A Airacomet

2 The Angel of Paradise Ranch:

The U-2 Aquatone

3 The Archangel from Area 51:

The A-12 Oxcart

4 Alone, Unarmed, Unafraid, and Unmanned:

The Model 147 Lightning Bug

5 Orphaned Eagle:

114

The Model 154 Firefly

6 The Last Blackbird:

119

The D-21 Tagboard

7 The Dark Eagles of Dreamland:

135

The Have Blue Stealth Aircraft

8 The Black Jet of Groom Lake:

158

The F-117 A Senior Trend

9 The Return of Black Reconnaissance:

199

HALSOL and the GNAT-750

10 The MiGs of Red Square:

217

Have Doughnut and Have Drill

11 Still Black:

244

The Enigmatic Shamu

12 Tales of Darkness and Shadows:

251

The Illusive Aurora

13 Invisible Horizons

280

History, Stealth, and Innovation

Notes

293

Index

341

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