Download or read book High Altitude Spy Planes written by Bill Sweetman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the U-2 spy plane, its uses, engines, sensors, and future in the U.S. Air Force.
Download or read book Defusing Armageddon Inside NEST America s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad written by Jeffrey Richelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richelson reveals the history of America's super-secret government agency, Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST). "Defusing Armageddon" provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST's personnel, operations, and detection and disablement equipment. 16 pages of illustrations; 4 maps.
Download or read book Spyplane written by Norman Polmar and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book discusses the requirement for and the design, development, and operation of the U-2, from 1954 when the design began, to the current overflights of the Balkans and Iraq. Includes extensive discussions of U-2 overflights of hostile countries (USSR, China, North Korea, North Vietnam) and NASA's use of the U-2.
Download or read book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance written by Gregory Pedlow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CIA’s 2013 release of its book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance 1954–1974 is a fascinating and important historical document. It contains a significant amount of newly declassified material with respect to the U-2 and Oxcart programs, including names of pilots; codenames and cryptonyms; locations, funding, and cover arrangements; electronic countermeasures equipment; cooperation with foreign governments; and overflights of the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and other countries. Originally published with a Secret/No Foreign Dissemination classification, this detailed study describes not only the program’s technological and bureaucratic aspects, but also its political and international context, including the difficult choices faced by President Eisenhower in authorizing overflights of the Soviet Union and the controversy surrounding the shoot down there of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1960. The authors discuss the origins of the U-2, its top-secret testing, its specially designed high-altitude cameras and complex life-support systems, and even the possible use of poison capsules by its pilots, if captured. They call attention to the crucial importance of the U-2 in the gathering of strategic and tactical intelligence, as well as the controversies that the program unleashed. Finally, they discuss the CIA’s development of a successor to the U-2, the Oxcart, which became the world’s most technologically advanced aircraft. For the first time, the more complete 2013 release of this historical text is available in a professionally typeset format, supplemented with higher quality photographs that will bring alive these incredible aircraft and the story of their development and use by the CIA. This edition also includes a new preface by author Gregory W. Pedlow and a foreword by Chris Pocock. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Cats of Osan written by Rick Bishop and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the top-secret “Black Cats” who undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War. Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth’s atmosphere, the U-2’s extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly classified ground site, located at Osan Air Base, Korea. From there, the top-secret intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products are distributed to the highest levels of command authority within the United States. Although the Dragon Lady has been in continuous service for nearly 70 years, she has always been considered a “National Asset,” with technology so sophisticated that she outlasted her “replacement”—the SR-71—decades ago. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Rick Bishop, a former U-2 pilot, takes the reader deep into the Black World of non-satellite ISR to reveal how a small detachment of 100 hand-selected personnel with only eight pilots and two aircraft became the most reliable and productive air force unit to ever utilize the Dragon Lady during the Cold War and to this day. As second-in-command of Detachment 2 (Det 2) of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing during the mid-1980s, Rick kept a detailed journal of the daily operations that routinely launched pilots on high-altitude solo missions lasting at least nine hours. Wearing full-pressure suits similar to those utilized by the Shuttle astronauts, these missions took a physiological toll on each pilot who upon return had to coax the Lady, universally known for her treacherous landing characteristics, safely back on the ground along with the often-priceless intelligence-gathering sensors. Although the pilots were the pointy end of the spear, this is also the story of the missions that could not be accomplished without the dedicated effort from enlisted personnel and civilian company tech reps to keep the maintenance-intensive platform in the air. Along with Physiological Support Division personnel, responsible for keeping the pilot alive in their pressure suit environment during emergency situations, as well as numerous other support troops required for logistical and supply support, the unparallel success of Det 2 can only be attributed to the professional pride of the close-knit selectively manned brotherhood known as the Black Cats of Osan.
Download or read book Kites Birds Suff Aircraft of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA LOCKHEED Aircraft written by P.D. Stemp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aviation history of LOCKHEED aircraft. From the very beginning - Loughead - through Vega - Alcor - Airover - and beyond. Up to the present day or as far as one can basically go. Details on almost all the aircraft they have produced. Performance, dimensions, weights, power plants, first flown, construction, numerous other information. Also where are they and what became of them, on many of the aircraft produced. Over four hundred pages on archive information. Enjoy.
Download or read book The Vital Guide to Military Aircraft written by Sophearith Moeng and published by Swan Hill Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable, up-to-date reference work detailing well over 100 of the world's most significant airlines. Each entry details the history, current status, and future plans of the major passenger and freight carriers worldwide.
Download or read book Arsenal of Democracy II written by Tom Gervasi and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force and Space Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 50 Years of the U 2 written by Chris Pocock and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the U-2 first took off in 1955, no one involved in its top-secret project dreamt that this unique reconnaissance aircraft would still be flying today. The long story of the Dragon Lady is amazing, and complex; this book tells it all, in unprecedented detail, from the early days overflying the Soviet Union under CIA sponsorship, to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and on to the Vietnam War. The epic missions over Communist China were flown by nationalist pilots from Taiwan. How the U-2 was improved, enlarged and put back into production - twice. It led the real-time recce revolution with data links and high-tech sensors. Then it played a key role in Desert Storm, over Bosnia and Kosovo, and most recently over Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the CIA's own historian, Chris Pocock is the foremost authority on the U-2. To write this book, he flew in the aircraft, conducted 250 interviews, and analysed more than 1,000 declassified documents.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Top Gun written by Andy Lightbody and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides profiles and specifications on 36 military aircraft and describes advanced military training courses for pilots.
Download or read book The International Directory of Military Aircraft written by Gerard Frawley and published by Australian Aviation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors Australian Aviation. From the MiG-17 to trainers, helicopters to fighters and special mission aircraft, 280 individual types are featured in full-color.
Download or read book The Cuban Missile Crisis written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the political and military buildup of pressure that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Download or read book Aerial Espionage written by Dick van der Aart and published by Arco. This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing book about the secret reconnaissance flights carried out by the Soviets and the West since the beginning of the Cold War.
Download or read book International Directory of Civilian Aircraft 1999 2000 written by Gerhard Frawley and published by Australian Aviation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latest edition of the bestselling biennial features a separate entry for every civil aircraft type currently in service -- nearly 400 in all -- canvas-bodied single-seaters to the 777.
