On a bet, Richard Macon, a Birmingham native andgraduate of Miles College in Fairfield, AL with abachelor’s degree in mathematics, took the entranceexams for the U. […]
n January 5, 1967, a sister-ship of our museum’sLockheed A-12 (Article 131) was returning from atraining flight to the now well-known CIA’s advancedaviation research facility base […]
Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flight of the Wright Flyer I, heavier-thanair powered aircraft built by Orville and Wilbur Wright. It took place on […]
n the 1960s, Lockheed’s secret Skunk Works developed the Mach 3, A-12 reconnaissance aircraft for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) along with the concept of a long-range drone that used much of the A-12’s technology.