Blackbird: A History of the Untouchable Spy Plane
The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed spy jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft-and its success has never been approached since.It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time, Clarence Kelly Johnson. Once fully developed in 1964, the Blackbird represented the apogee of jet-powered flight. It could fly at well over three times the speed of sound above 85,000 feet and had an unrefueled range of 3,200 nautical miles. It flew with great success until 1999). Despite extensive use over Viet…
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- ISBN: 978-1-68177-505-0
- EAN: 9781681775050
- Produktnummer: 22497132
- Verlag: Pegasus Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.3 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
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James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of Empires of the Clouds, the classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel, Gerontius. His most recent book was Marked for Death, a history of aerial combat during World War 1. He lives in Austria.
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