Paul Crickmore reveals the amazing truth about Lockheed Blackbird & other "spy planes"
What would it be like to fly at Mach 5, at 90,000 feet? You're in a craft so secret that it's made by hand to incredibly exacting detail, refused in flight several times because it burns so much fuel on a mission, and can fly across an entire region of the globe in minutes, all while taking extraordinarily detailed photographs that help military strategists make historical decisions. And we've been doing something like this since the mid-1950s, with the U-2, and the 1960s with the AR-12 Oxcart, and the early 1970s with the SR-71.
Paul Crickmore has been researching and explaining the incredible nature of the Lockheed Blackbird and its predecessors since the late 1980s, updating his books as more was declassified. Makes you wonder what's the newest version, right? This beautiful coffee-table sized book will be a treasured volume in your library.
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