Area 51 between Area 51 and Lockheed's Burbank, California offices. To preserve secrecy, personnel flew to Nevada on Monday mornings and returned to California on Friday evenings. Project OXCART established in August 1959 for "antiradar studies, aerodynamic structural tests, and engineering designs [and] all later work on the" Lockheed A-12 included testing at Groom Lake, which before improvements for OXCART had inadequate facilities: buildings for only 150 people, a asphalt runway, and limited fuel, hangar, and shop space. Selected for its seclusion and climate, Groom Lake had received a new official name "Area 51" when A-12 test facility construction began in September
Texas State Highway Spur 51 action was deferred, and later this plan of cancelling Spur 51 was gone. Texas State Highway Spur 51 Spur 51 is a state highway spur in Denton, Texas. It starts at State Highway 114 (SH 114), and ends on Elizabethtown Road. The road is not signed, but the designation has not been cancelled. The number originally belonged to Loop 51, designated on September 25, 1939, from U.S. Highway 77 (US 77) through Yoakum to US 77 (now Alternate US 77). The designation was changed to Business US 77-Q on June 21, 1990. The current route was designated on August 28,