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Built in total secrecy under the CIA’s Project Oxcart, the Lockheed A-12 Archangel was the direct predecessor to the SR-71 and, in many ways, its superior. Designed as a single-seat reconnaissance ...

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The future of aviation takes flight as the X-59 soars above California. Discover the cutting-edge technology behind this ...

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Despite a massive search effort nearly 50 years ago when 20-year-old Casper woman Celeste Hensley Greub vanished, she was never found. Now the son of ...