
“The A-12 trainer during a test flight,” Jacobsen writes in “Area 51.” “Note two canopies, one for the instructor pilot and another for the trainee. The A-12 trainer aircraft could not reach the upper Mach numbers; CIA pilots experienced that remarkable feat on their own.”
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