SECRET FLIGHTS IN 1980s TESTED STEALTH RECON
Over three years, beginning in 1982, the U.S. Air Force made 135 flights with a stealthy, low-speed, long-endurance surveillance aircraft, the product of a classified program named Tacit Blue. The aircraft, which resembles a streamlined loaf of bread with wings, was the first to demonstrate low...
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