Secrets of the A-12: the SR-71 Blackbird's predecessor

For close on eight years, from selection to the programme’s termination, Ken Collins lived and breathed the CIA’s Project ‘Oxcart’ — testing the Mach 3-plus Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft from Area 51 and operating it over North Vietnam on the ‘Black Shield’ deployment, all in conditions of the utmost secrecy Article 129, A-12 serial 60-6932, and CIA pilot Jack Weeks were lost without trace on 4 June 1968 during a check flight out of Kadena AB, Japan. USAF My first