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Lockheed Blackbird - Beyond the Secret Missions

By: Osprey

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: General Aviation

Last Stocked on 2/6/2008

Product Info

Title
Lockheed Blackbird - Beyond the Secret Missions
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
Paul Crickmore
Publish Year
2004
Pages
400
Dimensions
8x11x1.2"
NKG Part #
2147377919
MFG. Part #
OSPSEA026
Type
Hardcover

Description

In this book, expert author Paul Crickmore leads the reader deeper than ever before into the 'Black World' of the A-12 and SR-71 top-secret reconnaissance mission. For the first time, detailed first-hand accounts from CIA and USAF pilots bring to life the experience of flying highly classified missions in the Blackbird, whilst Allied and former Warsaw Pact fighter pilots describe their efforts to intercept the spy-plane. Traveling more than a mile every 2 seconds and flying fifteen miles above the earth's surface, the SR-71's performance capacities were truly awesome. This book draws on hundreds of newly declassified Top Secret documents and the experiences of the author's key military contacts to provide the most detailed information available on the SR-71.