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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197627242ISBN-10:197627242UPC:9780197627242Book Category:History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Military, Aeronautics & AstronauticsBook Topic:Aviation & Space, United StatesSize:8.28 x 5.51 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCW8CD9MKR
Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197627242ISBN-10:197627242UPC:9780197627242Book Category:History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Military, Aeronautics & AstronauticsBook Topic:Aviation & Space, United StatesSize:8.28 x 5.51 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCW8CD9MKR
Peter Westwick teaches history at the University of Southern California and directs the Aerospace History Project at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. His books include Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004, which won prizes from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronautical Society.
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