sličica|Area 51 sličica|SR-71 (A-12) z D-21 na hrbtu sličica|A12 sličica|Lockheed Have Blue sličica|F-117 Nighthawk sličica|F-22 in suho jezero Groom v ozadju Area 51, znano tudi kot Območje 51, je letalska baza Ameriških letalskih sil, v kateri so v preteklosti razvijali in testirali skrivnostne vojaške projekte, kot so vohunsko letalo Lockheed U-2, visokohitrostno letalo Lockheed A-12 (SR-71), brezpilotni dron Lockheed D-21 in stealth bombnika Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.
Baza je tudi znana pod imeni Dreamland in vzdevki Paradise Ranch, Home Base in Watertown. Oznaka 51 naj bi pomenila 51. ameriška zvezna država.
Glej tudi Skunk Works Boeing Phantom Works Kapustin Jar, Sovjetska zveza Woomera Prohibited Area, Avstralija Tonopah Test Range, znan tudi kot Area 52
Bibliografija Rich, Ben R.; Janos, Leo (1994). Skunk Works: A personal memoir of my years at Lockheed. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-74300-6 Darlington, David (1998). Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6040-9 Patton, Phil (1998). Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51. New York: Villard / Random House ISBN 978-0-375-75385-5 Area 51 resources at the Federation of American Scientists. Lesley Stahl "Area 51 / Catch 22" 60 Minutes CBS Television 17 March 1996, a US TV news magazine's segment about the environmental lawsuit. Area 51 related article archive from the pages of the Las Vegas Review-Journal Jacobsen, Annie (2011). "Area 51". New York, Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-13294-7 (hc)
Zunanje povezave
Dreamland Resort – Detailed history of Area 51 Roadrunners Internationale – Covering the history of the U2 and A-12 Blackbird spy plane projects "How Area 51 Works", on HowStuffWorks
Zemljevidi in fotografije The site Wikimapia Dreamland Resort's map of Area 51 buildings Dreamland Resort Maps – Maps of Area 51 and Google Earth plug-ins Topographic Map of the Emigrant Valley / Groom area Aerial photos of Area 51 show the base's growth since 1959 Photographs of McCarran EG&G terminal and JANET aircraft Official FAA aeronautical chart of Groom Lake Historical pictures of Groom Lake, Groom Lake Mining District , Department of Special Collections, Digital Image Collections, University of Nevada, Reno, accessed 30 January 2009
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