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Re:Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51 by LoganCale on Saturday April 27, 2013 @12:55PM (#5618286)
It was a heavily classified project, as evidenced by the enclosure to hide its shape. I don't think they would want to be flying it out of Burbank in plain view of everyone. Additionally, its first test flight occurred at Area 51, after this move, which is an ideal location for testing such things. Test flights near a city are probably not a good idea.
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Re:Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51 by noonespecial on Saturday April 27, 2013 @01:14PM (#5618346)
All they have to do is issue a press release saying that it most definitely was not a UFO and the rest will take care of itself.
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Re:Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51 by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 27, 2013 @01:26PM (#5618385)
Had this been a few years later, they could've transported it via helicopter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-12

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Re:Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51 by ChuckMcM on Saturday April 27, 2013 @01:52PM (#5618472)
Perhaps, but then this Russian helicopter, which the US didn't learn about until much much later, would have taken it home to Mother Russia :-)
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Re:Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51 by kpao on Saturday April 27, 2013 @01:05PM (#5618314)
I also doubt they would have long enough runways in Burbank to take off with that beast.
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Re:Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51 by mds on Saturday April 27, 2013 @02:21PM (#5618574)
Burbank is actually somewhat infamous for having one of the shortest runways in the US used by full sized jets.
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