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A-12 Oxcart Spy Plane, a History: On October 30, 1967, a CIA spy-plane soared eighty-four thousand feet over Hanoi in northern Vietnam, traveling faster than...
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A-12 Oxcart Spy Plane, a History: On October 30, 1967, a CIA spy-plane soared eighty-four thousand feet over Hanoi in northern Vietnam, traveling faster than...
Back when my very first 19FortyFive article was published, discussing the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, several of our readers requested that I follow up by...
In 2009, an explorer found the location of a crashed CIA A-12 spy plane that went down somewhere in the Nevada desert on a...
The Soviets wouldn’t be able to stop it. The idea: take the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart spy plane and convert it into a bomber or...
A former Air Force Pilot Trainee explains the story of the A-12: During the most intense years of the Cold War, the CIA relied on...
A-12 Avenger – The US Navy’s stealth bomber mistake? It was a great concept but also a cautionary tale about how not to run a...
A-12 Oxcart – Yes, the CIA Had Its Very Own SR-71 Spy Plane – When CIA planners decided to update their aerial reconnaissance abilities,...
The A-12 Oxcart, the CIA’s Very Own SR-71? The Lockheed SR-71 has been widely hyped for its abilities. Developed in secret in the late 1950s, the...
Yes, the SR-71 Spy Plane made some serious history during the Cold War. And yet, the CIA had a similar spy plane that also...
Sure, the A-12 Oxcart might not get the press the SR-71 does or even the mythical SR-72 or SR-91. And yet, its place in...