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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. When was Johnson's birthday?

2. What was the code name of the most sensitive project during Rich's years at Skunk Works?

3. How did Johnson's wife Althea die in 1970?

4. When was Skunk Works ordered to destroy all of the tooling for the drones?

5. Where was a piece of a drone found years after the project had been canceled?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was a model of the stealth ship tested?

2. Why did Rich turn down a project to design a hypersonic airplane?

3. Where was the drone built at Skunk Works?

4. What happened to a Blackbird flight pilot over West Virginia?

5. What type of a plane did Johnson propose to build after the U-2?

6. Why was the stealth project photographer getting fuzzy pictures of the stealth airplane model?

7. Why wasn't it possible to cut corners when building the Blackbird?

8. What shattered Dick Bissell's career?

9. What was done to win over the community of Susanville when they continually experienced the affects of sonic booms?

10. What was done to prepare the route for the truck that would carry the Blackbird to the test site?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why and how Rich would have implemented cost-cutting methods in the aerospace industry.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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