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Monday, August 23, 2010

The Truth is Out There | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine

The Truth is Out There | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine: "'And you'll see a very long runway right...there.' Our aircraft commander jabbed a finger at a small, cross-hatched circle on the U.S. Air Force navigation chart. 'But, even if we lose all four engines,' he said, 'we will not land on it.”

“Why not, sir?” I asked.

“We’d be there a long time and have to answer a lot of questions,” the commander replied, then moved on to the next day’s mission preview. A four-stripe sergeant leaned toward me. “That’s Groom Lake,” he said under his breath. “That’s where the really secret [stuff] happens.”"

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