Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 114 p. — ISBN: 1841760595. A study of Blackworld Skunkworks U2, SR-71 and F-117, three military jets from the same manufacturer. It explains, in uncluttered language, the reasons why it was necessary to design and build them, the challenges faced by their Skunkworks designers and test pilots, and how these challenges were overcome. It also describes...
Osprey Publishing 2021. — 752p. — ISBN: 978-1-4728-4648-8 (eBook). For more than 75 years, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has been doing what it does best, enabling our customers’ most challenging missions by creating amazing aircraft and advanced technology solutions. Just the name Skunk Works conjures up images of doing things differently, and to those in the Aerospace and...
Zenith Press, 2010. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0760332398. For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird takes readers along on an operational mission that only a few Air Force pilots have ever experienced. The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, was an...
Midland Publishing Ltd. Aerofax 1993. — 217p. — ISBN: 1-85780-037-0. Having authored more than a few books and over a thousand articles about a myriad collection of esoteric aviation subjects, I've come to a point in my professional career where it is difficult for me to get excited writing about anything but the most extraordinary. Aerospace journalism is a time-consuming and...
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1855321548. This title concerns the the T-6 Texan, a major tool of the Allied pilot training scheme in World War II. It continued to serve with many air forces until the 1970s, but since then its major role is participating in airshows worldwide.
Voyager Press 2016. — 523p. — Digital Edition 78-0-76035-157-4. First and foremost, this authoritative work is not a history of the Lockheed Martin Corporation or any of its many predecessor companies. There are numerous other tomes specifically dedicated to those. Instead, this is a seventy-five-year history of the most clandestine entity of the Lockheed Martin Corporation,...
Little Brown & Co, 1994. — 370 p. The onetime director of Lockheed's Skunk Works, the top-secret facility that developed the U-2 spy plane and the stealth fighter, reveals the behind-the-scenes drama involved in the development of the military's aerial technology. 50,000 first printing.
SOKO Mostar, 1983. — 31 p. The G-4 Super Galeb is a new-generation jet strike-trainer intended to replace the successful Soko Galeb/ Jastreb family in the conditions expected to prevail in military pilot training in the late eighties and the nineties. Through backed by extensive experience gained by its predecessor through seventeen years now in service with the Yugoslav Air...
Motorbooks International, 1993. — 98 p. — ISBN: 0879387807. Why did the Pentagon retire the SR-71 spyplane in 1990? What has caused sonic booms over the California desert since 1991? What was the triangular craft spotted over the North Sea in 1989? In this groundbreaking book, journalist Bill Sweetman argues these mysteries can be traced to a U.S. spyplane called AURORA, the...
DODD, MEAD & Co. 1986. — 150p. — ISBN: 0-396-08529-6. From its beginning in 1941 as the Air Corps Ferrying Command, through three wars and innumerable humanitarian missions, the Military Airlift Command has served the United States at home and abroad by providing airlift, when and where needed, anywhere in the world. Although its primary mission is airlift in support of...
Comments