Interesting story of CIA- A-12 pilot


Message posted by Aaron johnson on November 21, 2003 at 2:20:23 PST:

Mele Vojvodich Jr., 74, a retired major general in the Air Force and a spy pilot who flew about two dozen top secret surveillance missions for the CIA during the Cold War, died Monday night at his home in Schertz.

Only 15 A-12s, which flew at Mach 3.1 at an altitude of 80,000 feet, were built as part of the Oxcart project before it folded in 1968.

In May 1967, five years after the A-12 was tested in Groom Lake, Nev., Vojvodich flew the first A-12 to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan

Oh it's a good one get too it quick, before the spin doctors do have fun!

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