Letter from Aviation History: The Truth is Out There

On April 12, 1955, legendary Lockheed designer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson flew over the Nevada desert with a CIA officer and a U.S. Air Force colonel in a Beechcraft Bonanza piloted by Lockheed’s chief test pilot, Tony LeVier. Johnson was searching for a secluded site where he could test an airplane so secret that few outside …

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