Featured in OxcartBYSarah Scoles—Popular ScienceJan 5, 2021ShareAn A-12 Oxcart Spyplane Crashed Near Area 51 In 1967. This Is How One Explorer Found It.Some people hunt for buried gold, a small number of others hunt for bits of titanium laced with aerospace history. BYSarah Scoles—Popular ScienceJan 5, 2021ShareBYTyler RogowayMay 6, 2020ShareElon Musk And His Partner Grimes Name Their Newborn After The A-12 Spy PlaneThe kid’s full name is “X Æ A-12,” the latter part being a tribute to Lockheed Skunk Works’ Mach 3-capable jet it built for the CIA in the 1960s. BYTyler RogowayMay 6, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019ShareAir Force Wanted To Turn Skunk Works’ Mach 3 Capable Recon Drone Into A Nuclear BomberThe concept would have given the service a penetrating high-speed strike asset, something it is still interested in to this day. BYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019ShareBYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019ShareCIA And Skunk Works Secretly Planned To Turn The A-12 Spy Plane Into A Space Launch MothershipThe proposal sheds more light on decades of secretive U.S. work to realize air-launched space access capabilities. BYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019ShareBYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareAre Some Of The UFOs Navy Pilots Are Encountering Actually Airborne Radar Reflectors?Submarine-launched, radar reflector-toting balloons used to stimulate enemy air defenses can be traced back to a Cold War era Skunk Works program. BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019Share
BYSarah Scoles—Popular ScienceJan 5, 2021ShareAn A-12 Oxcart Spyplane Crashed Near Area 51 In 1967. This Is How One Explorer Found It.Some people hunt for buried gold, a small number of others hunt for bits of titanium laced with aerospace history. BYSarah Scoles—Popular ScienceJan 5, 2021Share
BYTyler RogowayMay 6, 2020ShareElon Musk And His Partner Grimes Name Their Newborn After The A-12 Spy PlaneThe kid’s full name is “X Æ A-12,” the latter part being a tribute to Lockheed Skunk Works’ Mach 3-capable jet it built for the CIA in the 1960s. BYTyler RogowayMay 6, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019ShareAir Force Wanted To Turn Skunk Works’ Mach 3 Capable Recon Drone Into A Nuclear BomberThe concept would have given the service a penetrating high-speed strike asset, something it is still interested in to this day. BYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019Share
BYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019ShareCIA And Skunk Works Secretly Planned To Turn The A-12 Spy Plane Into A Space Launch MothershipThe proposal sheds more light on decades of secretive U.S. work to realize air-launched space access capabilities. BYJoseph TrevithickDec 1, 2019Share
BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareAre Some Of The UFOs Navy Pilots Are Encountering Actually Airborne Radar Reflectors?Submarine-launched, radar reflector-toting balloons used to stimulate enemy air defenses can be traced back to a Cold War era Skunk Works program. BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019Share