Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Hanyar wucewa: Gidan tafkin ya zama kyakkyawan yanki wanda zasu iya gwada jiragen sama, kuma tsaunukan tsaunukan Emigrant Valley da NTS kewaye, kimanin 100 mi (160 km) arewacin Las Vegas, sun kare wurin gwajin daga baƙi. CIA ta nemi AEC ta sayi ƙasar, wacce aka ayyana a matsayin "Yankin 51" a kan taswirar, kuma ta ƙara shi zuwa Nevada Test Site. Johnson ya kira yankin "Paradise Ranch" don ƙarfafa ma'aikata su koma wani wuri wanda tarihin CIA na aikin U-2 daga baya zai bayyana shi a matsayin "sabon kayan aiki a tsakiyar babu inda"; sunan ya ragu zuwa "Ranch". A ranar 4 ga Mayu, 1955, ƙungiyar binciken ta isa Groom Lake kuma ta shimfiɗa ƙafa 5,000 (1,500 m), arewa-kudu a kan kusurwar kudu maso yammacin tafkin kuma ta sanya wuri don kayan tallafi na tushe. "The Ranch", wanda aka fi sani da Site II, da farko ya ƙunshi kaɗan fiye da 'yan mafaka, bita da gidajen tirela waɗanda za su ba da ƙaramar ƙungiyarsa. A cikin fiye da watanni uku, sansanin ya ƙunshi hanya guda, da aka yi wa katako, da ɗakunan ajiya uku, da hasumiyar sarrafawa, da kuma wuraren zama na asali don ma'aikatan gwaji. Ƙananan abubuwan da ke cikin sansanin sun haɗa da gidan wasan kwaikwayo da kuma wasan kwallon raga. Ƙari ga haka, akwai ɗakin cin abinci, rijiyoyin ruwa da kuma tankunan ajiyar mai. A watan Yulin 1955, CIA, Air Force, da kuma Lockheed sun fara zuwa. Ranch ya sami isar da U-2 na farko a ranar 24 ga Yuli 1955 daga Burbank a kan jirgin saman C-124 Globemaster II, tare da masu fasahar Lockheed a kan Douglas DC-3. An kafa jiragen sama na Jirgin Sama na Soja na yau da kullun tsakanin Area 51 da ofisoshin Lockheed na Burbank, California. Don adana sirri, ma'aikatan sun tashi zuwa Nevada a safiyar Litinin kuma sun dawo California a daren Juma'a.  Tambaya: wanene ya kasance tare da isar da U-2 na farko?
Masu fasaha na Lockheed