Milestones of Innovation 12: Overflight Of Russia’s Ultimate Weapons
Xconomy
JULY 1, 2016
The glider-like U2’s development at Kelly Johnson’s famous Lockheed “Skunk Works” in Burbank, CA, had gone into high gear only two years before, leading to a first test flight from a secret field in Nevada in the summer of 1955. Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Simon and Schuster, 1995, Sloan Technology Series.
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