For 42 years, the legend grew—but no one could pinpoint the exact spot where the high-speed A-12 Oxcart came down.
It was known as the "Flying Dorito," and it looked more like something from H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds than it did a United States military program. But that was precisely what the A-12 Avenger II ...
At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an imposing spy aircraft stands outside the main entrance — a relic from a pivotal era of Cold War intelligence gathering that, in its time, pushed aerospace ...