Lockheed U-2 News

Alton D. Romig Jr. heads Lockheed Martin's weapons-development facility in Palmdale, Calif., dubbed "Skunk Works," which got its nickname because the plant used to be next to one with a pronounced odor.

The Obama Administration as part of the budget deal last year submitted a 2013 defense spending plan that cuts about $100 billion over the next five years.

Bill Flanagan, a board member on the Flight Test Historical Foundation and a Blackbird Airpark volunteer, sat in the cockpit of the SR-71 to give visitors a perspective of what it was like for the crewmembers who flew the reconnaissance airplane back in its day.

How do you hide an airplane behind a bird? Very skillfully. Lt. Col. William B. O'Connor flew the F-117 Nighthawk during the Bosnia Conflict, and in Stealth Fighter, he explains the history, operation, and soul America's most advanced stealth jet.