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Secret NOFORN
Appendix E
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![Image: A black-and-white photograph of an aircraft in flight, viewed from below, with visible wings and tail against a dark sky.]
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Project AQUILINE
Corporation for chainsaws
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In 1968 tests on an AQUILINE prototype at Randsburg Wash on the US Navy’s Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, California, showed that the aircraft was extremely difficult to see. To assist pilots of chase aircraft in keeping AQUILINE in sight, its entire upper surface was painted bright orange; even so, sighting remained difficult.
The testing process was very hard on AQUILINE because it was recovered by flying it into a net close to the ground, which almost always caused some damage to the wings or propeller. As a result, one
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Approved for Release: 2013/06/25