Tacit Blue, nicknamed the Whale, was a super-secret prototype spy jet built by Northrop and tested at the government's mysterious Area 51 site in Nevada, according to CIA documents released in 2013. Click through the gallery for more on this plane and other remarkable exhibits at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
Area 51 Spy Plane And Other Aviation Tales -- Thom Patterson, CNN
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (CNN) -- It looks like an upside-down bathtub with wings, pretty odd for a spy jet that was among the nation's most highly classified pieces of military hardware.
As I stand in front of the plane code-named Tacit Blue at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, near Dayton, Ohio, I'm reminded that it still holds a bit of mystery.
Engineers made fun of Tacit Blue's design by nicknaming it the Whale, but the program -- declassified in 1996 -- was deadly serious. It was all about stealth. Pentagon Cold War strategists desperately wanted to build planes that could evade Soviet radar.
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My Comment: I am more interested in what they are not telling us .... but I suspect that there are some secrets that they will never be disclosed.
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