Inside Area 51 | Bill Yoak’s Time With Lockheed and Skunk Works in Groom Lake

Bill Yoak tells his story about working in Area 51, meeting Kelly Johnson and working on secret programs, followed by an original documentary about the U-2 Spy plane, and a documentary about Kelly Johnson, the mastermind behind Skunk Works. Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility is officially called Homey Airport (ICAO: KXTA, FAA LID: XTA)or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield). Details of its operations are not made public, but the USAF says that it is an open training range, and it is commonly thought to support the development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons USAF and CIA acquired the site in 1955, primarily for flight testing the Lockheed U-2 aircraft. The intense secrecy surrounding the base has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component of unidentified