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From: UKdragon@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 22:53:44 -0800 |
Famed Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier died last Saturday. I think he was 84. His accomplishments were many, and his exploits were legion. His relevance to this list is that he claims the credit for choosing Groom Lake as the most suitable site for flight testing the U-2. The rest, as they say, is history. As some readers may know, I offer a revisionist interpretation, based on a couple of archive documents. These suggest that Col Ozzie Ritland, assigned to the CIA's U-2 program from the Pentagon, played the major role in determining where the U-2 should be flight-tested. I've just read David Darlington's book AREA 51 THE DREAMLAND CHRONICLES. The author interviewed LeVier, who not surprisingly stuck by his version of events. After all, he had been dining out on that story for years! LeVier's account of subsequent early U-2 flight testing also differs in some significant details from from others of Kelly's early flight test group out at the Ranch, whom I have interviewed. But hey, that shouldn't detract from the memory of one of the great test pilots. Tony was still entertaining audiences, formal and informal, with his splendid recollections of an amazing career, until a few weeks before he died. May he rest in peace. Regards Chris Pocock "Information is useless without Intelligence" UKdragon@aol.com [ Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles... http://www.ufomind.com/catalog/d/darlington/ ] +--------------------------------------------------------------- | UFOMIND MAILING LIST - Supporting the Ufomind/PsiSpy Website | http://www.ufomind.com/misc/ - Glenn Campbell, Moderator | "unsubscribe"/"subsingle" to: ufomind-request@lists.best.com | Submissions to: ufomind@lists.best.com | | RELEVANCE OF THIS MESSAGE: Area 51 | | Index: Base History +---------------------------------------------------------------
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