Thereafter Ishmael checked out a second NASA pilot – Rogers Smith, who in turn flew Marta Meyer and her husband Robert on an orientation flight, as they became the two test engineers on the program. The most ambitious project to be ...
From the A-1 design through the completion of the very first Radar Cross Section models of the A-12, to the testing of every major system and subsystem, this book describes and illustrates the SR-71 as never before, using images from a ...
The SR-71 represents the very pinnacle of Cold War aircraft design and it has become an aviation icon.
Throughout its 34-year Cold War career with the USAF and CIA, the top secret Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane was the world's fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft.
The author has closely researched this extraordinarily advanced family of aircraft and this book includes full details of their design, manufacture and thirty-year service with the American Central Intelligence Agency, Us Air Force ...