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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the temperature at 8 a.m. on an August day in 1979?

2. How many hours could the U-2 fly without refueling?

3. What was the Taiwanese U-2 squadron nicknamed?

4. During his fifteen years of flight testing for Skunk Works, how many times did Bill Park have to bail out?

5. What were the Soviet bombers nicknamed that Khrushchev had overfly the May Day parade in 1954?

Short Essay Questions

1. Until Overholser discovered the Ufimtsev theory, what possibilities had been know to reduce an airplane's radar detection?

2. What was Rich told by experts in the field of liquid hydrogen?

3. Why did the CIA reject the idea of building a hydrogen airplane?

4. Why did Johnson tell Rich to have the government reclassify the security for Have Blue?

5. How did the CIA finance the U-2?

6. What happened during the first taxi test in the U-2?

7. How did Rich manage his employees when he took over at the Skunk Works?

8. Was Skunk Works able to make money on the F-117 stealth fighter?

9. What was so unusual about the contract the Air Force signed to purchase a stealth fighter?

10. Why did Rich go to work for Johnson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the technical and logistical problems involved in building the stealth fighter and how these problems were solved.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the missions that pilots and Reconnaissance Systems Officers undertook when flying Blackbirds.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, discuss why Soviet military operations seemed to be more of a threat than usual at the beginning of Kennedy's presidency.

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