Stealth: the secret contest to invent invisible aircraft
Roots of the Revolution -- Tomorrowland -- Breeding Invisible Rabbits -- Lockheed: Tin Shed in a Hurricane -- Northrop: Seeing the Waves -- Showdown at RATSCAT -- Have Blue and the F-117A -- Secrets and Strategies -- The Whale -- Facets versus Curves: The Contest for the B-2 -- Building the B-2 -- F...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Roots of the Revolution -- Tomorrowland -- Breeding Invisible Rabbits -- Lockheed: Tin Shed in a Hurricane -- Northrop: Seeing the Waves -- Showdown at RATSCAT -- Have Blue and the F-117A -- Secrets and Strategies -- The Whale -- Facets versus Curves: The Contest for the B-2 -- Building the B-2 -- From the Shadows to the Spotlight -- Conclusion: The Secret of Stealth "To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, the ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which the impossible was achieved. Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuity and determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one that immerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it."-- |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
LIST
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
VII
INTRODUCTION
IX
I. ROOTS OF THE REVOLUTION
1
Z. TOMORROWLAND 13
3
BREEDING
INVISIBLE
RABBITS
23
LOCKHEED: TIN SHED IN
A HURRICANE
NORTHROP: SEEING
THE WAVES
55
SHOWDOWN AT RATSCAT 73
HAVE
BLUE
AND
THE F-117A
83
SECRETS
AND
STRATEGIES
111
31
4
5.
6.
7
8.
9.
THE
WHALE 123
10.
FACETS
VERSUS
CURVES:
THE CONTEST
FOR THE
B-2
143
1 1.
BUILDING
THE
B-2 161
I2. FROM
THE
SHADOWS
TO THE SPOTLIGHT 181
CONCLUSION:
THE
SECRET OF STEALTH
191
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
199
GLOSSARY
OF
TECHNICAL TERMS
201
NOTES
203
INDEX
237
YIYLIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHEY
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| adam_txt |
CONTENTS
LIST
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
VII
INTRODUCTION
IX
I. ROOTS OF THE REVOLUTION
1
Z. TOMORROWLAND 13
3"
BREEDING
INVISIBLE
RABBITS
23
LOCKHEED: TIN SHED IN
A HURRICANE
NORTHROP: SEEING
THE WAVES
55
SHOWDOWN AT RATSCAT 73
HAVE
BLUE
AND
THE F-117A
83
SECRETS
AND
STRATEGIES
111
31
4"
5.
6.
7"
8.
9.
THE
WHALE 123
10.
FACETS
VERSUS
CURVES:
THE CONTEST
FOR THE
B-2
143
1 1.
BUILDING
THE
B-2 161
I2. FROM
THE
SHADOWS
TO THE SPOTLIGHT 181
CONCLUSION:
THE
SECRET OF STEALTH
191
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
199
GLOSSARY
OF
TECHNICAL TERMS
201
NOTES
203
INDEX
237
YIYLIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHEY' |
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