Product Description: Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic and famous jets ever built. Assembled in secret at Lockheed's Skunk Works, the Blackbird's vital statistics remain phenomenal, decades later. It holds the airspeed record for a manned jet aircraft, operated at an altitude other aircraft could barely touch, and was a marvel of technical engineering...read more

Product Description: By 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...read more

Product Description: From its questionable debut over Panama, the shoot-down of a Nighthawk during Operation Allied Force over the former Yugoslavia, to the mind-boggling successes enjoyed by the type in the two Gulf Wars, this is the story of another 'Skunk Works' icon that took aircraft design and operational capabilities to previously unprecedented levels...read more

Offers a detailed looked at the SR-71 reconnaissance plane and includes personal accounts by CIA and USAF pilots of their highly classified sorties, along with descriptions from former Warsaw Pact fighter pilots of their attempts to intercept a plane flying over a mile every two seconds.

Product Description: In this popular entry in Crowood Press' Combat Legend series, the legendary F-117 Nighthawk is profiled with text, photos, and illustrations. A key frontline aircraft of the USAF since 1983, the Nighthawk was deployed in the Gulf War and Balkans conflicts, and although it was operational from 1983, it was kept secret until 1988...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This revised edition of this great-selling book features an additional 40 pages and updated text that brings the SR-71 story up to date.Designed at the height of the Cold War the SR-71 Blackbird was, and still is, the world's fastest air-breathing aircraft. The SR-71 is a mysterious plane that has an ardent and always growing popularity. Flying at heights up to 15 miles, the SR-71 conducted top secret photographic missions over every hostile nation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: America's most closely kept top-secret weapon of the cold war. Years after its retirement many technical aspects of this spyplane are still classified. It cruised at an amazing Mach 3 and its flying altitude was nearly 85,000 feet...read more

Product Description: No other aircraft has approached the spectacular performance of the Blackbird. It flew at over three and a half times the speed of sound at 88,000 feet, an altitude that was at the very edge of space. It had an unrefuelled range of 3,500 miles and its two Pratt and Whitney J58 bypass turbojets generated 60,000 pounds of thrust and guzzled 8,000 gallons of fuel per hour...read more