Message posted by Wolfbane on March 18, 2002 at 15:42:12 PST:
FYI: There a number of contractors that did "black-aircraft" For eaxample, Senior Citizen (a Northrop product), flown at Groom, but moved to other locations; McDonnell Douglas/USN Quiet-Attack prototype, which flew at China Lake; and Teledyne Ryan, White Sands/Holloman AFB. And Aeroenvironment was under sub-contract to the Skunk Works which had a DARPA contract for a solar- Wolfbane
program work, but all of it was done at Groom. Groom
has almost always been the Skunk Works' playground, so to speak.
powered recce (unmanned) aircraft - code name Teal
Cameo. This was the so-called HASOL type. What's is
really ironic is that Lockheed (Skunk Works) built and
flew a 1/3-scale version of HASOL as long ago as 1976.
Then not classified Top Secret, and was reported in a
1976 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. The
sub-contractor to the Skunk Works to build the 1/3 scale solor-powered model was Astro....something. I can look up the exact article and post it here, if you
like.
In Reply to: Quite a slanted viewpoint posted by F-117A Webmaster on March 16, 2002 at 16:29:37 PST:
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