How to Hide a Top Secret Airplane - Dark Photos

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Two giant boxes are shown here, driven atop large flatbed trucks. A closer look reveals a police escort in the foreground to the left. It turns out that not all top secret planes fly at night to be mistaken for UFOs. Instead, in this case, it was determined that driving a classified aircraft between airports was the best way to keep it a secret before assembly. This 1962 photo, saved by Lockheed Skunk Works mechanic Dorsey Kammerer, captures the classified transportation of two top-secret shipments between Burbank and Palmdale, California. These trucks held A-12 planes, at the time the most technologically advanced of reconnaissance aircraft...

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