Barnes’ photos include a look at the A-12 radar cross section testing model elevated on a stand in the Nevada desert. Unlike the later USAF YF-12A and SR-71, the A-12 Oxcart was a single seat aircraft, with the exception of one two-seat trainer version of the A-12, aircraft #60-6927, named the “Titanium Goose”. The A-12 was the precursor of the famed SR-71 Blackbird. The recent group of photos he posted on social media include a fascinating look into the secret development of the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart and its radar cross section testing in the emerging era of “stealth”. Barnes has also been featured in a pair of National Geographic documentaries and is a prolific author with over a dozen published titles on. He is the president of Roadrunners Internationale, an association of Area 51 veterans, and is the executive director of the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame. Today Barnes is the CEO of Startel, Inc., is a landowner and mines a quarry in Nevada. Barnes then founded his own exploration company that located and extracted petroleum and precious metals. Later, Barnes was a member of a classified special projects team at Area 51 for the Central Intelligence Agency. Rear view of the A-12 RCS model on the ground before being raised to the test stand.
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