Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
My wife's uncle, an aeronautical engineer, work for Lockheed during the development of the U2 and the A12 which later became the SR71.
He didn't say much about any of the projects he worked on their, he did mention fbeing flown from Burbank Airport up to Air Force Plant 42 and then later the same day being flown over to Groom Lake, AKA area 51.
I've stood and looked at the Lockheed's house bird SR71 stored in a Hanger at Edwards Air Force base several times when they would have an open house, Man I love that plane bow up
I've saw it being flown once, it was way up high in SO CA over Edwards AFB probably near 30,000 FT, I could barely see it with my set of 50x7.50 Binoculars, it was hauling the mail bow


Jim Goodall fully restored one (SR-71) and got it back into flying condition, they had to raise a ton of cash, find parts, it took them years. Then some gov't d-bag ordered it to be taken from them and put on a post in front of the CIA building where it now rots. Real nice huh...