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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. Who was the U-2 built for?

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

3. What size wooden model was tested of the Hopeless Diamond?

4. How did Rich's wife Faye die?

5. How long did it take McDonnell Douglas to build the fighters it began building at the same time Skunk Works was building stealth fighters?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Johnson begin his career at Lockheed?

3. Why did General Jones want the U-2 designation changed?

4. Whose employees were the pilots who flew the U-2 and how were they paid?

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

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

7. What was the U-2 used for after the Powers tragedy?

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

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

10. By 1954, for what design had Rich earned a patent?

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

Discuss reasons why drones were favored for gathering sensitive information over manned spy planes.

Essay Topic 3

The division Johnson and Rich headed up at Lockheed had an unusual name. Discuss the origins of Skunk Works and how Skunk Works got its name.

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