| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Beginning of the A-12 -- A-12 construction and testing -- YF-12 interceptor -- D-21 drone project -- Enter the SR-71 -- Home for the SR-71 Blackbird: Beale AFB, California -- Selection process -- Training program -- Physiological Support Division and the pressure suit -- Command and control -- Preparing to fly the mission -- Flying the mission -- Refueling -- Acceleration and climb to Mach 3+ and 71,000 feet -- Cruising at Mach 3+ -- Inlet unstarts and restarts -- Entering the sensitive area -- Descent and "hot" tanker air rendezvous -- The recovery -- Post flight activity -- The final years -- Rising from the ashes -- Appendix A: List of acronyms -- Appendix B: Kelly Johnson's fourteen rules of management -- Appendix C: 1997 letter from Senators Levin and Byrd to Secretary of Defense. |
| Summary |
At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Lockheed had developed a strategic reconnaissance aircraft so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. The SR-71 Blackbird flew at over three and a half times the speed of sound, more than two thousand miles an hour, at 88,000 feet, over sixteen miles up. Snapping photos from three times the height of Everest, pilots had to wear full pressure suits like astronauts. |
| Subject |
SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance plane) -- History.
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Jet planes, Military.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Jet planes, Military. (OCoLC)fst00982449
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SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance plane) (OCoLC)fst01102875
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Complete illustrated history of the Blackbird, the world's highest, fastest plane |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Graham, Richard H., 1942- SR-71. Minneapolis : MBI Pub. Company LLC ; Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 2013 9780760343272 (DLC) 2012044644 (OCoLC)808417683 |
| ISBN |
9781610588126 (electronic bk.) |
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1610588126 (electronic bk.) |
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