Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the LA Times: “… the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. Well, now, for the first time, someone is ready to talk … Colonel Hugh ‘Slip’ Slater, 87, was commander of the Area 51 base in the 1960s. Edward Lovick, 90, featured in ‘What Plane?’ in LA’s March issue, spent three decades radar testing some of the world’s most famous aircraft (including the U-2, the A-12 OXCART and the F-117). Kenneth Collins, 80, a CIA experimental test pilot, was given the silver star. Thornton ‘T.D.’ Barnes, 72, was an Area 51 special-projects engineer. And Harry Martin, 77, was one of the men in charge of the base’s half-million-gallon monthly supply of spy-plane fuels.”
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