From RAINBOW to GUSTO : stealth and the design of the Lockheed Blackbird /

"In 1956, the shock of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the horrors of the war that followed were still fresh in the minds of America's leaders. When the Soviet Union exploded its own atomic bomb in August 1949, the sense of vulnerability increased, with the realization that th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Suhler, Paul A.
Otros Autores: Allen, Ned (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reston, Va. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2009.
Colección:Library of flight.
Temas:
SR-71 Blackbird (Jet reconnaissance plane)
SR-71 (Avion de reconnaissance)
Stealth.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Rainbow
  • Rainbow phase II
  • The follow-on
  • High speed
  • Competition from Convair
  • Archangel I
  • New ideas
  • November 1958 Land Panel Review
  • Lockheed stealthy designs
  • Refining FISH
  • Lockheed's large airplanes
  • June 1959 Land Panel Review
  • Proving the A-12
  • Propulsion
  • New countermeasures, new threats
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. skunk works engineering staff
  • Appendix B. Timeline of projects RAINBOW and GUSTO
  • Appendix C. Supporting materials.

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