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aircraft, which provides day and night, NASA. Developers created it as a Northrop and BAE Systems. It evolved to certain aerospace manufacturers price tag for each bomber would be
all-weather intelligence gathering. highly classified, top-secret military from Lockheed’s X-35, which in 2001 asking them to create a feasible design cost prohibitive, so they scaled back
This vehicle, with a single-jet- defense project, which evolved beat the Boeing X-32 to win the Joint for an advanced technology bomber the plans and had only 21 bombers
engine, was nicknamed “Dragon from the manufacturer’s A-12 Strike Fighter program. with long-range, high payload and low built at a cost of $2 billion each — the
Lady.” It was previously flown by reconnaissance aircraft during the In 2018, the Israeli Air Force observability. Jack Northrop created most expensive aircraft ever built.
the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. 1960s by the company’s Skunk Works became the first nation’s military to exactly wat the government wanted. War Eagle Airport functioned as a
Lockheed initially proposed it in 1953 Division. The SR-71 has room for a use the F-35 in combat. He worked on this top-secret project training field for the Army Air Force
and the first flight took place in 1955. two-seat cockpit, compared to the Northrop came through with the that even members of Congress had in conjunction with an auxiliary
During the years of the Cold War, it smaller A-12 as well as room to hold creation of the Stealth B-2 Bomber, denied. Initial plans were to build facility, Liberty Auxiliary Field #1,
flew over the Soviet Union, China, more fuel. the machine with an existence that a fleet of more than 100 B-2s, but
Vietnam, and Cuba. In 1960, Gary Lockheed’s F-35 is a single-seat, government officials continually government officials decided that the See RURAL, Page 18
Powers was shot down in a U-2C over single-engine, all-weather stealth denied. When asked by reporters
the Soviet Union. In 1962, Maj. Rudolf multirole combat aircraft intended to about this bomber, those officials had
Anderson Jr. was shot down in a U-2 perform both air superiority and strike a prepared response: “What stealth?”
during the Cuban Missile Crisis. missions. It can also provide electronic Aeronautical experts seemed to
Lockheed’s SR-71 Blackbird is warfare and intelligence, surveillance, reach a consensus: “The most efficient
a long-range, high-altitude Mach and reconnaissance capabilities. form of any flying machine is just a
wing,” a quote from “Inside the Stealth
3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed is the prime F-35 Bomber,” a military documentary
operated by the U.S. Air Force and contractor with principal partners
In the final year of the 20th century,
the flying wing had come of age and
gone into battle. Nearly 100 years
earlier men envisioned the flying wing
as the future of flight and the future
of war. In the early 1930s, brothers
Walter and Reimar Horten began to
design flying wings for the new Nazi
regime in Germany
Aircraft designers elsewhere also
wanted to develop what appeared to be
the impossible. Enter Jack Northrop.
He had dreamed about a flying wing
since the 1920s. He believed the path to
success was reducing the drag created
by a tail and the fuselage. Northrop An exhibit dedicated to Women An exhibit dedicated to the Ninety-
first minimized the size of those parts Air Force pilots is on display in the Nines International Women pilots is
and eventually he eliminated them. Antelope Valley Rural Museum, on display in the Antelope Valley Rural
An Antelope Valley Rural Museum Board director sits inside the fuselage of In the mid-1970s, the U.S. located at the Antelope Valley Museum, located at the Antelope
an F-15 aircraft that was donated to the museum’s aerospace collection. Fairgrounds in Lancaster, Calif. Valley Fairgrounds in Lancaster, Calif.
government put out a top-secret request

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