![]() ![]() Barnes has also been featured in a pair of National Geographic documentaries and is a prolific author with over a dozen published titles on. ![]() He is the president of Roadrunners Internationale, an association of Area 51 veterans, and is the executive director of the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame. ![]() Today Barnes is the CEO of Startel, Inc., is a landowner and mines a quarry in Nevada. Barnes then founded his own exploration company that located and extracted petroleum and precious metals. Later, Barnes was a member of a classified special projects team at Area 51 for the Central Intelligence Agency. Rear view of the A-12 RCS model on the ground before being raised to the test stand. Undaunted by the setback, TD Barnes went to work for NASA in Nevada on the X-15, XB-70 Valkyrie and several experimental lifting body programs. Unfortunately, Barnes suffered an injury forcing the end of his Army career. He also attended the Army’s Artillery Officer Candidate School. TD Barnes is a veteran of Army intelligence, a former missile and radar electronics operator and was a member of the first Hawk missile battalion deployed during the Cold War. The photo series was posted to Facebook by TD Barnes in the last few days. “TD” Barnes, prolific author and former Area 51 test engineer, has provided a series of fascinating photos from the early radar cross section tests of the Lockheed/CIA A-12. In another remarkable chapter in the history of the A-12 Oxcart (as well as the M-21/YF-12A/ SR-71 family of Lockheed Skunk Works aircraft), Mr. Former Area 51 Special Projects Team Member Provides a Remarkable Insight Into Shadowy A-12 Oxcart Project. ![]()
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