Summary and Key Points: The A-12 Oxcart, predecessor to the famed SR-71 Blackbird, was a groundbreaking reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed’s Skunk Works in the late 1950s. -Designed to ...

The highly secretive A-12 Blackbird was relocated to a remote desert base in Nevada due to the size and security requirements for the high-speed jet. The jet's revolutionary structure consisted of 85% ...

Louis Wellington Schalk Jr., 76, original chief test pilot for the A-12 Blackbird spy plane built by Lockheed’s storied “Skunk Works” in 1962, died Friday in a hospice in Arlington, Va. The cause of ...

The Central Intelligence Agency is closing in on a high-value landscaping target: a 1960s spy plane called the A-12 Blackbird. The CIA plans to mount the once-secret, 102-foot-long supersonic plane on ...