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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. When did Johnson want Rich to research liquid hydrogen?

3. How long were the rolls of film in U-2?

4. Where did Powers' fateful flight originate?

5. What bomber was the United States using to counter the Soviet heavy bombers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Johnson react when he saw a sketch of the Hopeless Diamond?

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

3. Why one morning when Ken Dyson flew Have Blue, did it appear on radar?

4. Why did Major Al Whitley and his crew chiefs come to Skunk Works in February 1982?

5. How did Johnson split his days at Lockheed when Rich first started at Lockheed?

6. What happened when the Skunk Works test pilot took up Major Whitley's F-117A?

7. What caused broken rubber seals inside engine valves and leaking pressure seals, and how did Skunk Works solve the problem?

8. What was so revolutionary about the plane Have Blue?

9. How did the Air Force decide to use the F-117As?

10. Why in Chapter 8 was Rich traveling around the country feeling like he was a secret agent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down by the Soviets. Discuss the mission, what went wrong, and the reactions to the failed mission.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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