Area 51 : : the Graphic History of America's Most Secret Military Installation
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The origin of Area 51: from Roswell to Oxcart -- From Oxcart to the dawn of the drones -- Unleash the drones -- Going underground -- From Hopeless Diamond to Have Blue to F-117A Nighthawk -- Beware the Predator -- Test bed for technologies, not operations -- Flights or fantasies? -- The outing of Area 51 -- The future of Area 51.
Though nearly everyone has heard of it, almost no one has known anything about it... until now. Located in the remote Nevada desert near the dry bed of Groom Lake, Area 51 is the most famous military installation in the world that doesn't "officially" exist. In Area 51, author Dwight Zimmerman and artist Greg Scott unravel the real history -- minus the aliens and sci-fi movie plots -- revealing in detail how for more than 60 years, the CIA, the U.S. Air Force, and aerospace company Lockheed Martin have all used Area 51 as a staging ground for test flights of experimental or highly classified aircrafts. Scott illustrates the Archangel-12 as well as follow-on aircrafts, such as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter, while author Zimmerman tells the history of how they sprang from the research and development conducted at Area 51. This first-of-its-kind graphic history strips away the fantastical aspects of this mysterious location and establishes the actual, significant history made there.
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PUBLISHED
Minneapolis, MN : Zenith Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 91 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Graphic Novel
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780760346648
076034664X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Scott, Greg,
SUBJECTS
Military bases, American -- Fiction.
Airplanes, Military -- Testing -- Fiction.
Area 51 (Nev.) -- History -- Fiction.
Graphic novels.