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Author: J. Goodall
Publisher:
Published: 2001-05
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780897474252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLosses of aircraft to radar directed missiles and anti-aircraft guns during the Vietnam War led the USAF to develop a strike aircraft less visible to radar. Debuted in 1981, it was kept secret until 1990 with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait with the F-117 playing a key role in Operation Desert Storm. Also used in the Persian Gulf War and more recently in Yugoslavia.
Author: William B. O'Connor
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: 2012-04-16
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0760341354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pilot recounts his experiences flying NATO missions in a F-117 stealth fighter over Kosovo in 1999.
Author: Paul Crickmore Alison J. Crickmore
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781610607377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most in-depth Stealth fighter book ever follows the development, operation, technology, testing, and history of the F-117 Nighthawk. A special section details F-117 combat operations in Panama and the Gulf War.
Author: Paul Crickmore
Publisher: Airlife Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe F-117 has proved itself to be an important weapon whenever the US Air Force is called into action. This volume profiles this American stealth aircraft.
Author: Paul F. Crickmore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-10-20
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1472801180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloped by the legendary Lockheed 'Skunk Works,' the F-117 Nighthawk was a phenomenal technical achievement. Featuring cutaways, detail plates and battlescene artwork, this book tells the incredible story of the design of the machine, from the revolutionary materials used to the highly advanced computer technology that was employed to make the Stealth Fighter invisible to enemy radar. Written by the world's leading authority on the aircraft from Lockheed's 'Skunk Works', Paul Crickmore, this book reveals the impact the Stealth had in combat over Panama, Yugoslavia and most notably the Persian Gulf.
Author: David C. Aronstein
Publisher: AIAA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781563472459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Have Blue and the F-117A: Evolution of the "Stealth Fighter" documents the history, observations, and lessons learned from the development and acquisition of the first very-low-observable combat aircraft. The book is a case study of the high-payoff, low-profile strike fighter development effort (code-named "Have Blue" and "Senior Trend"). In 1991, the aircraft played a key role in the air campaign against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. The book describes the clear vision, strong leadership and teamwork, rapid-response decision making, and keen focus on achieving an operational capability that marked the project. Also discussed are potential applications of the strategies used in the project to today's acquisition environment.
Author: Leo Janos
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 031624693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. "Thoroughly engrossing." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Author: Tracey Reavis
Publisher: Childrens Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780516235417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history and development of the United States Air Force's Stealth bomber, its design and special features, and some of the missions it has flown in Operation Desert Storm and in Kosovo in 1999.
Author: Paul F. Crickmore
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780857335128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the time the so-called 'Stealth Fighter' was acknowledged to the world in November 1988 it had already been in service with the USAF for five years. A product of the Lockheed Skunk Works, the F-117 Nighthawk was the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology. Although popularly known as the stealth fighter it was actually a ground-attack aircraft.
Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: 2018-02-20
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0760361460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArea 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking advancements in American military aviation technology. In Area 51 - Black Jets, author and military historian Bill Yenne offers the first fully illustrated chronology of Area 51's most famous aircraft projects, including Lockheed's U-2 "Dragon Lady" and SR-71 "Blackbird" reconnaissance planes, drones ranging from the early Lockheed D-21 to the modern-day General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and the famous F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter produced by the Have Blue program during the 1970s. Each project is given its own fascinating chapter illuminating the aircraft's development at this famed location. But beyond the aircraft themselves, Area 51 - Black Jets also covers a handful of the many classified experimental programs carried out at Area 51 over the years, such as Have Doughnut, Have Ferry, and Have Drill - secret undertakings that successfully reverse-engineered such enemy aircraft as the Russian MiG during the Cold War. Presented in beautiful hardcover format and illustrated with historic color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and maps, this book reveals Area 51 for what it truly is: a clandestine area for the United States' most cutting-edge technological innovators in military aviation.
