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Learn about the history of jet flight and the astonishing technology that makes it possible. Detailed cutaways simplify the information while fascinating facts are peppered throughout the narrative through fact boxes and sidebars.
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Flying Camelot
Flying Camelot brings us back
to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new,
state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16
Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debates about aircraft
superiority went public-and these were not uncontested discussions.
Michael W. Hankins delves deep into the fighter pilot culture that
gave rise to both designs, showing how a small but vocal group of
pilots, engineers, and analysts in the Department of Defense
weaponized their own culture to affect technological development
and larger political change.
The design and advancement of the F-15 and F-16 reflected this
group's nostalgic desire to recapture the best of World War I air
combat. Known as the \"Fighter Mafia,\" and later growing into the
media savvy political powerhouse \"Reform Movement,\" it believed
that American weapons systems were too complicated and expensive,
and thus vulnerable. The group's leader was Colonel John Boyd, a
contentious former fighter pilot heralded as a messianic figure by
many in its ranks. He and his group advocated for a shift in focus
from the multi-role interceptors the Air Force had designed in the
early Cold War towards specialized air-to-air combat dogfighters.
Their influence stretched beyond design and into larger politicized
debates about US national security, debates that still resonate
today.
A biography of fighter pilot culture and the nostalgia that
drove decision-making, Flying Camelot deftly engages both
popular culture and archives to animate the movement that shook the
foundations of the Pentagon and Congress.
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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin
On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his
F-8 fighter after being hit while positioned over a target in North
Vietnam. With a cloud layer beneath him, he did not know if he was
over land-where he would most certainly be captured or killed by
the North Vietnamese-or over the Gulf of Tonkin. As he ejected,
both navy and air force aircraft were already heading toward him to
help. What followed was a dramatic rescue made by pilots and other
airmen with little or no training or experience in combat
search-and-rescue. Told by former military flight test engineer
Eileen A. Bjorkman, this story includes nail-biting descriptions of
air combat, flight, and rescue. Bjorkman places Sharp's story in
the larger context of the U.S. military's bedrock credo-No Man Left
Behind-and calls attention to the more than eighty thousand
Americans still missing from conflicts since World War I. She also
explores the devastating aftershocks of the Vietnam War as Sharp
struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. Woven into this
gripping tale is the fascinating history of combat
search-and-rescue missions that officially began in World War II.
Combining the cockiness and camaraderie of Top Gun with
the heroics of Sully , Unforgotten in the Gulf of
Tonkin is a riveting tale of combat rescue and an
unforgettable story about the U.S. military's commitment to leave
no man behind.
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Jets
Looks at jet airplanes, examining how they work, the parts they have, how they are used, and some of their history.
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Toxicologic Assessment of Jet-Propulsion Fuel 8
This report provides a critical review of toxicologic, epidemiologic, and other relevant data on jet-propulsion fuel 8, a type of fuel in wide use by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and an evaluation of the scientific basis of DOD's interim permissible exposure level of 350 mg/m3
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Fuel Effects on Operability of Aircraft Gas Turbine Combustors
Alternative jet fuel has been an active area of research and development since the 1973 oil embargo. Research goals have included establishing energy security, lowering fuel costs, and reducing emissions with a focus on developing cost-effective methodologies for processing and sustaining jet fuel production from shale, tar sands, coal, biomass, end use waste, and CO2. Physical and chemical properties, such as the viscosity, vapor pressure, boiling range, freeze point and hydrogen content, have been measured for many potential alternative jet fuels. Combustion characteristics, such as lean blow-out and ignition, have also been investigated in gas turbine engines and fundamental combustion devices. The compilation of this research has resulted in a large technical base for understanding the combustion of alternative jet fuels that have a wide range of physical and chemical properties and operating in different combustion devices.
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Fighter jets
\"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes fighter jets and the parts that help them fly fast and hit targets in battle\"--Provided by publisher.
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Live Fire Testing of the F-22
The Live Fire Test Law mandates realistic survivability and lethality testing of covered systems or programs. A provision of the law permits the Secretary of Defense to waive tests if live fire testing would be \"unreasonably expensive and impractical.\" Though no waiver was requested before the F-22 program entered engineering and manufacturing development, the Defense Department later asked that Congress enact legislation to permit a waiver to be granted retroactively. Rather than enact such legislation, Congress requested a study to explore the pros and cons of full-scale, full-up testing for the F-22 aircraft program. The book discusses the origin of testing requirements, evaluates the practicality, affordability, and cost-benefit of live fire tests, and examines the role of testing, modeling, and data bases in vulnerability assessment.
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