CIA File of the Day
OXCART Program
A May 1962 memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence on the OXCART program. It reports that the official first flight of OXCART A-12 aircraft no. 1, using Pratt & Whitney J-75 engines with afterburner, took place on the morning of 30 April 1962. The aircraft, flown by a Lockheed Aircraft Corporation test pilot, was taken off at 170 knots, at a gross weight of 72,000 pounds, and climbed to 30,000 feet.
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