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Author : Bill Sweetman
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 9781429613149
Discusses the U-2 spy plane, its uses, engines, sensors, and future in the U.S. Air Force.
Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0760309574
Book discusses the requirement for and the design, development, and operation of the U-2, from 1954 when the design began, to the current overflights of the Balkans and Iraq. Includes extensive discussions of U-2 overflights of hostile countries (USSR, China, North Korea, North Vietnam) and NASA's use of the U-2.
Author : Norman Polmar,John F. Bessette
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760351550
A comprehensive history with descriptions of the world's most significant aircraft employed as "eyes in the sky."For as long as there has been sustained heavier-than-air human flight, airplanes have been used to gather information about our adversaries. Less than a decade after the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, Italian pilots were keeping tabs on Turkish foes in Libya. Today, aircraft with specialized designs and sensory equipment still cruise the skies, spying out secrets in the never-ending quest for an upper hand.Spyplanes tackles the sprawling legacy of manned aerial reconnaissance, from hot air balloons to cloth-and-wood biplanes puttering over the Western Front, and on through every major world conflict, culminating with spyplanes cruising at supersonic speeds 85,000 feet above the Earth's surface. Authors Norman Polmar and John Bessette offer a concise yet comprehensive overview history of aerial recon, exploring considerations such as spyplanes in military doctrine, events like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the downing of Francis Gary Powers' U-2, the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, and the USAF's Big Safari program.Polmar and Bessette, along with a roster of respected aviation journalists, also profile 70 renowned fixed-wing spyplanes from World I right up to the still-conceptual hypersonic SR-72. The authors examine the design, development, and service history of each aircraft, and offer images and specification boxes that detail vital stats for each. Included are purpose-built spyplanes, as well as legendary fighters and bombers that have been retrofitted for the purpose. In addition, the authors feature preliminary chapters discussing the history of aerial surveillance and a host of sidebars that explore considerations such as spyplanes in military doctrine, events like the Cuban missile crisis and the downing of Francis Gary Powers' U-2, the 1992 Open Skies Treaty, and the USAF's current Big Safari program.From prop-driven to jet-powered aircraft, this is the ultimate history and reference to those "eyes in the skies" that have added mind-bending technologies, not to mention an element of intrigue, to military aviation for more than a century.
Author : David Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0865923531
Discusses the history of surveillance from the sky and describes the development of different types of reconnaissance aircraft and their uses since World War II.
Author : Jay Schleifer
Publisher : Children's Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0516353020
Discusses the history of surveillance from the sky, describing different types of reconnaissance aircraft and their role in the future.
Author : Carrie A. Braulick
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736864539
"Describes spy planes, their design, equipment, weapons, crew, missions, and role in the U.S. Air Force"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Paul Lashmar
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000052993924
Tells the story of the secret aerial espionage war between the West and the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. Uncovers evidence of secret missions flown by US Air Force and Royal Air Force crews into the Soviet Union, drawing on interviews with US, UK, and Soviet pilots, and reveals details of an alarming 1950s US Air Force plan to use spy flights to provoke a nuclear war that would wipe out the Soviet Union and China. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Lisa Jo Rudy
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531175359
Discusses Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), describing different kinds and presenting statistics, dates, and true stories of UAVs in action.
Author : Paul J. Wagner
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781434994585
A comprehensive history of tactical reconnaissance aircraft produced and operated during the Cold War in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Author : Ernest Kellogg Gann
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aerial reconnaissance
ISBN : UCSC:32106009004166
Describes the planes, the missions, and the men who fly reconnaissance.
Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681775746
The fascinating story of the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird—the fastest manned aircraft in the history of aviation. The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed “spy” jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft—and its success has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time, Clarence “Kelly” Johnson. Once fully developed in 1964, the Blackbird represented the apogee of jet-powered flight. It could fly at well over three times the speed of sound above 85,000 feet and had an unrefueled range of 3,200 nautical miles. It flew with great success until 1999). Despite extensive use over Vietnam and later battlefields, not one was ever shot down (unlike the U2 in the Gary Powers incident). The Blackbird's capabilities seem unlikely ever to be exceeded. It was retired because its function can be performed by satellites—and in today's steady trend toward unmanned military aircraft, it is improbable that another jet aircraft of this speed and caliber will ever again be conceived.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:227913087
On 1 April 2001, a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries II surveillance aircraft collided with a People's Liberation Army Air Force J-8 fighter plane that resulted in the loss of the Chinese pilot and an emergency landing on Hainan Island by the Navy plane. The Chinese government's 11-day internment of the Navy flight crew shocked and amazed the American public. The ensuing diplomatic crisis and war of words reminded many of similar incidents from the supposedly defunct Cold War. It also focused world attention upon a still little known but highly significant aspect of the Cold War -- strategic aerial reconnaissance. The term refers to the use of aircraft to collect strategic intelligence using photographic or electronic means. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), strategic intelligence refers to intelligence that is required for the formation of policy and military plans at national and international levels. Strategic intelligence includes information provided by sources other than aircraft, including naval vessels, ground communications intercept sites, satellites, published literature, defectors, and spies. But because Air Force aircraft provided the bulk of information used by American war plans from 1945 to 1953, this book focuses on the origins of the USAF strategic aerial reconnaissance. Although official JCS publications did not specifically list strategic aerial reconnaissance, the term may be defined as the use of aircraft to gather information necessary to conduct strategic air war, also called strategic air bombardment. At the core of the topic, recently declassified JCS emergency war plans indicate that a strategic air bombardment campaign formed the heart of American military strategy from the end of World War II to the Korean conflict. A question still remains: Did reconnaissance aircraft merely serve as a tool of war planners, or did strategic reconnaissance actually shape military strategy?
Author : David Scott Robarge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Reconnaissance aircraft
ISBN : IND:30000124256227
Author : Retired, John Thomas Farquhar, John Thomas Farquhar Lieutenant , USAF, Retired
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1466255323
On 1 April 2001, a US Navy EP-3 Aries II surveillance aircraft collided with a People's Liberation Army Air Force J-8 fighter plane that resulted in the loss of the Chinese pilot and an emergency landing on Hainan Island by the Navy plane. The Chinese government's 11-day internment of the Navy flight crew shocked and amazed the American public. The ensuing diplomatic crisis and war of words reminded many of similar incidents from the supposedly defunct Cold War. Depending on the age of the individual, the EP-3 crisis evoked memories of the 1983 Soviet shoot-down of Korean Air Lines (KAL) flight 007 or Francis Gary Powers's ill-fated U-2 mission of 1 May 1960. Avid readers might remember a 1993 U.S. News & World Report issue devoted to "America's Top-Secret Spy War" that chronicled many of the 35 US Air Force and US Navy reconnaissance aircraft shot down from 1946 to 1961 with the loss of over 100 American airmen.1 The April 2001 collision focused world attention upon a still little known but highly significant aspect of the Cold War-strategic aerial reconnaissance. The vehement charges and countercharges surrounding the EP-3 incident evoked similar periods of international tension involving US reconnaissance aircraft during the early years of the Cold War. For example, the KAL 007 shoot-down plunged Soviet-American relations into an icy phase of the latter Cold War, and the infamous U-2 incident aborted a promising 1960 US President Eisenhower-Soviet Premier Khrushchev summit. In the short term, the EP-3 incident resurrected a sense of hostility associated with a series of international incidents occurring in the early 1950s. To assess the apparent impact of aerial reconnaissance upon the early Cold War, many questions must be answered: How and when did reconnaissance flights originate? What factors prompted US reconnaissance operations? Who authorized them? At what point did the president and senior policy makers know about the activities? What information did US policy makers seek that could be provided by aerial reconnaissance? Why did leaders risk international incidents, political turmoil, and potential hostilities to gather information?
Author : G. F. Schreader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1432792083
The Silent Warriors of the U.S. Air Force Security Service, the "back-enders" on SAC's Hognose RC-135 reconnaissance planes, had quietly been in all the USAF air campaigns of the Vietnam War. Little is known about the critical role that a few thousand of these unheralded flyboys played in America's air war against communist aggression in Southeast Asia during that era. They were merely one of the many integral pieces of the great puzzle that history knows as Vietnam. They performed their top secret role in a most spectacular fashion by intercepting enemy communications about troop and materiel movements on the ground, surface-to-air launches and anti-aircraft targeting, and MiG fighter pilot communications. The author was one among many of those American kids of the 60's who were selected to join the privileged ranks of the air force's elite. This is yet another untold story about Vietnam, one you may not have heard about before. It is America's involvement as seen through a much different lens, a story about those who fought this war using intellect as their only weapon. From the early 1960's until the war was officially declared over after the fall of Saigon in 1975, there was a period of great advancement in America's intelligence gathering efforts. It was an unprecedented endeavor to monitor, collect and process real-time data and information utilized for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. America's skills were honed beyond expectations during this era, in particular the airborne intercept mission programs that expanded beyond utilizing older prop planes to newer jet models, like the RB-47, later the U-2 and SR-71 super spy planes, and in particular the Boeing 717 model configured as the RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft that could be manned with up to thirty-five crew members. Mostly enlisted personnel, these Silent Warriors, as they came to be called, were the creme-de-le-creme of the USAF. They were schooled in linguist