Mar 122009
 

Two Lockheed designs circa late 1953/early 1954 for a high-altitude subsonic recon plane. The resemblance in design and concept to the U-2 is obvious, though the U-2 genesis is generally ascribed to the CL-282 (a long-span F-104 derivative). No further data.
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