Lockheed Skunk Works A-12

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Just as the iconic SR-71 Blackbird, the stealthiest jet at the time, was being unveiled to the
public, a similar, if not more agile aircraft was undergoing secret testing. And rather than coming
from the US Air Force, its development came at the request of the CIA in a project known as
Oxcart. On May 31, 1967, the American aircraft taxied at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa,
Japan, for her maiden flight. Codenamed BLACK SHIELD, the mission began with the secret jet
taking off in the rain, traveling 1,500 miles through North Vietnamese airspace, and swiftly
turning home. Lockheed Martin's highly-classified A-12 objective was to perform
reconnaissance missions while flying at three times the speed of sound. Well ahead of its time,
and built utilizing groundbreaking material technologies, the A-12 *seemed* to be the future of
modern covert reconnaissance…

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