A-12

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A-12 OXCART

Designation: A-12 Manufacturer: Lockheed Nationality: American First Flight: April 25, 1962 Remarks: A high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft built for the CIA during the early 1960s, which was different from--but served as the basis of the design for--the later SR-71. Variants: YF-12, M-21

[edit] Timeline

• April 25, 1962 The A-12 makes its first flight^[1].

[edit] Sources

• Wikipedia entry for A-12
• Archangel: CIA's Supersonic A-12 Reconnaissance Aircraft  at CIA.gov
• A-12 OXCART Reconnaissance Aircraft Documentation  at CIA.gov "approximately 1,500 pages of material, consisting of about 350 documents, maps, diagrams, and photographs dealing with the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft"
• The Road to Area 51  at Los Angeles Times contains excerpts from interviews with several participants in Project OXCART

[edit] References

1. ↑ https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/a-12/index.html