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Expeditions
Groom Lake and the Imperial Production of Nowhere (experimental
lecture)
Goatsucker
(experimental lecture)
Telephotography
Books and Writing Projects
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Places in CA and NV |
Groom Lake, NV Tonopah
Test Range, NV Nellis Range, NV
Beale AFB, CA
Edwards AFB, CA
Vandenberg AFB, CA
Mojave Desert Facilities, CA
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Military Programs |
Drones and UAVs Have Blue / Stealth
Fighter A-12, SR-71, M-21
U-2 |
| Have Blue was the code-name
for the prototype Stealth Fighter program. It was the first
airplane designed from an electrical engineering (rather than
an aerodynamic) perspective. The aircraft's plate-like, faceted
shape was designed to deflect electromagnetic waves, making
the plane essentially invisible to radar.
Two Have Blue planes were built to test both
the flight dynamics and radar-returns of the stealth concept.
These prototypes flew at Groom Lake, NV between 1977 and 1979.
Both planes were lost in crashes, and the debris from these
aircraft was buried near the lake bed.
"Even though the test site was
in a remote location, our airplane was kept under wraps
inside its hangar most of the time. Soviet satellites made
regular passes, and every time our airplane was rolled out
everyone on the base who wasn't cleared for Have Blue had
to go into the windowless mess hall and have a cup of coffee
until we took off."
- Ben Rich, director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975-1991

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