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Old 1st Oct 2016, 15:47
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Kubarque
 
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The Inquisitive Angel - film

This video was produced for the CIA c/a 1956-57. It was made for showing to the very few senior leaders who were cleared for the program at that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvJim_o7Dp0

There is a sequence showing the high speed taxi test a few days before the official "first flight".

The aircraft in the bogus Lockheed Martin "first flight" video referenced by Jhieminga
bears the marking "344" at the tip of the vertical fin. Article 344 was not delivered to the test site till 20 November 1954, nearly 4 months after the first U-2 flight.

Parts 2 and 3 of THE INQUISITIVE ANGEL are here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTNKqQum4e0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRoC0Lo8Ylw

In total, almost an hour-long discussion of the aircraft and its reconnaissance systems
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