Area 51 Palmdale facility. A search for a suitable testing site for the U-2 was conducted under the same extreme security as the rest of the project. He notified Lockheed, who sent an inspection team out to Groom Lake. According to Lockheed's U-2 designer Kelly Johnson: The lakebed made an ideal strip from which they could test aircraft, and the Emigrant Valley's mountain ranges and the NTS perimeter, about north of Las Vegas, protected the test site from visitors. The CIA asked the AEC to acquire the land, designated "Area 51" on the map, and add it to the Nevada Test Site.
Utah State Route 51 of the oldest grade separated interchanges in Utah still in use. Although portions of Interstate 15 were constructed in 1955, the Beck Street interchange (I-15/US-89) is the only original structure from 1955 still in use. Utah State Route 51 State Route 51 is a short highway completely within Utah County in northern Utah that connects SR-147 to US-89. The highway runs for three miles (5 km) and is an old routing of U.S. Route 91. The route begins at the intersection of 400 North (SR-147) and Childs Road in Spanish Fork, SR-51 heading northeast as a two-lane undivided highway on