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Posted: 5/19/2019 3:50:32 AM EDT


The Lockheed Senior Prom was a classified black program conducted by the United States Air Force in conjunction with the Lockheed Corporation's Skunk Works for the development and testing of a cruise missile using stealth technology. Based on the company's Have Blue demonstrator, the six Senior Prom vehicles proved successful in testing conducted at Area 51 in the late 1970s; despite this, the aircraft was not selected to enter production, and the program was terminated in the early 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Senior_Prom
and now Ben Rich's personal papers on the project:





Link Posted: 5/19/2019 3:51:00 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/19/2019 3:51:11 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/19/2019 3:52:55 AM EDT
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Is it written in code?  What's all that scribble mean?

Very cool, OP.
Link Posted: 5/19/2019 3:54:35 AM EDT
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Holy wall of gibersish batman.

No cliff notes, no care.
Link Posted: 5/19/2019 4:28:32 AM EDT
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F117 Missile

sweet
Link Posted: 5/19/2019 7:05:00 AM EDT
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You expect me to read that? In long hand?
Link Posted: 5/19/2019 7:12:21 AM EDT
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I read through it and it was an interesting project.

As I was reading it I realized that longhand cursive is an archaic form of writing nowadays.  Because of computers nobody uses cursive anymore.  It has been a long time since I have seen anything written in cursive.
Link Posted: 5/19/2019 7:14:37 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/19/2019 10:56:15 AM EDT
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Cool read, amazing effect Skunk works had on the US.
Link Posted: 5/19/2019 3:27:10 PM EDT
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I've seen photos of the test articles before but never together with the name SENIOR PROM.  It was always "stealth cruise missile test article."
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