Skunk works department of Lockheed, tasked with black projects throughout the cold war, was already working on A-12. This was a project financed by that shady CIA money and made to replace U-2 ...

In 1963, the Lockheed A-12 (code-named “Archangel”) became America’s first supersonic stealth plane. Incredibly fast, much faster than today’s sixth-generation stealth bomber, the A-12 ...