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This was followed by the "B" camera with a 36-inch-focal-length (910 mm) lens with F/10 and image motion compensation, resolving 100 lines per mm, and the ground resolution can be inferred by calculation to be 9.1 inches (23 cm). It was a panoramic camera which took pictures of an extremely large area of the earth's surface.
It contains numerous references to Area 51 and Groom Lake, along with a map of the area. [9] Media reports stated that releasing the CIA history was the first governmental acknowledgement of Area 51's existence; [53] [54] [15] rather, it was the first official acknowledgement of specific activity at the site. [50]
In December 2014, NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to study the feasibility of building the SR-72's propulsion system using existing turbine engine technologies, The $892,292 (~$1.13 million in 2023) contract funded a design study to determine the viability of a TBCC propulsion system by combining one of several current turbine engines, with a very low Mach ignition Dual Mode Ramjet (DMRJ).
A-12 60-6925, No. 122, mounted inverted for radar testing at Area 51. After development and production at Skunk Works, in Burbank, California, the first A-12 was transferred to Groom Lake test facility (Area 51). [16] On 26 April 1962 it was taken on its first (unofficial and unannounced) flight with Lockheed test pilot Louis Schalk at the ...
Famous aircraft such as the U-2 spy plane and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird were tested in the area, and some conspiracy theorists believe that is where the government does research on alien ...
[military aircraft can't account for] all the unknowns seen in the area. It might be that our star visitors are keeping an eye on Dugway too. ... [Dugway is] the new Area 51. And probably the new military spaceport." [23] Dugway Proving Ground has often made light of the rumors, satirizing the conspiracy on their official social media posts.
Alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione was flown back to the city from Pennsylvania in the department’s federally-funded spy plane. ... 51 a.m. on Dec. 19 and arrived in Blair County, Pa., at 10:24 a ...
O-57 Grasshopper at the National Museum of the United States Air Force A de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI (F-8) of the 654th BS, Eighth Air Force at RAF Watton, 1944 North American B-25D (F-10) Mitchell photographic reconnaissance and mapping aircraft North American P-51C-5-NT Mustang (F-6C) Serial No 42-103368 of the 15th TRS at St. Dizler Airfield, France, Autumn 1944.