Book Overview
Throughout its 34-year Cold War career with the USAF and CIA, the top secret Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane was the world's fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft. Dedicated to... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0850456533
ISBN13:9780850456530
Release Date:November 1986
Publisher:Osprey Publishing (UK)
Length:200 Pages
Weight:1.44 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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A fine introduction to a trully legendary plane
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Paul Crickmore is among the top experts on the Blackbird and with this book he presents many facts about the design, the construction and the operational history of the A-12 and the SR-71 without suffocating the reader in a sea of details, like his other books on the subject. While the account of the various missions flown by the SR-71s was very interesting, I found the technical chapter "Design Accomplishments" a real marvel. Crickmore gives also interesting appendices with the serial numbers and the fate of every single A-12, F-12 and SR-71, some guide to modellers looking for available kits, information on the NASA use of the aircraft and the world records set by the Blackbird that still stand. The photographs are very good (most of them black and white) with highly informative captions, the drawings are excellent, but there is the serious omission of not including in the book a table of technical characteristics.
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