My first sight and my first knowledge of what I was going to fly came when I went to Area 51 in October 1962. I walked into this hangar with someone who ended up being a friend of mine, Gen Doug Nelson, and here was this big, long, black, beautiful aircraft that almost looked like a spacecraft, in the filtered light coming through the hangar doors. It was just amazing. Not to go too far here, but it was almost breathtaking. I'd never seen anything like it before. That was my introduction to the A-12."
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