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Blackbird: The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane de James Hamilton-Paterson

Blackbird: The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane

Autor James Hamilton-Paterson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mai 2017
The American 'spy' aircraft, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft and 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 around 1963/4 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 unrefuelled range of 3,200 nautical miles. It flew with great success until 1998 (with NASA 1999). Despite extensive use over Vietnam and later battlefields none was ever shot down (unlike the U2 in the Gary Powers incident). The Blackbird's capabilities seem unlikely ever to be exceeded. It was retired because its job could be done by satellites, and in today's steady trend towards unmanned military aircraft it is improbable that anyone will ever again need to design a jet aircraft capable of such speed.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786691200
ISBN-10: 1786691205
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 40 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 135 x 200 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Head of Zeus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds and Marked for Death. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel, Gerontius. He lives in Austria.

Recenzii

Hamilton-Paterson has crafted an honest and loving tribute to the Blackbird
Hamilton-Paterson has managed to bring us a distilled history of an aircraft that is eminently readable and full of details and anecdotes on the development and challenges of the creation of this aircraft too
A reasonably fast read and puts over the information well enabling you to digest a lot of information... I suspect many of you will add this book to your collection'
A brilliant story of Cold War aviation history
A neat, small hardback with lots of photos and diagrams

Descriere

The American 'spy' aircraft, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft and 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 around 1963/4 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 unrefuelled range of 3,200 nautical miles. It flew with great success until 1998 (with NASA 1999). Despite extensive use over Vietnam and later battlefields none was ever shot down (unlike the U2 in the Gary Powers incident).

The Blackbird's capabilities seem unlikely ever to be exceeded. It was retired because its job could be done by satellites, and in today's steady trend towards unmanned military aircraft it is improbable that anyone will ever again need to design a jet aircraft capable of such speed.