Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee
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Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description
Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990--H.R. 2461 ... Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee
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Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 2166
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990--H.R. 2461 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials
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Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act, for Fiscal Year 1990--H.R. 2461 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Quarterly Supplement to the ... Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents
Author: United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange
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Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990--H.R. 2461 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990--H.R. 2461 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Department of Energy, Defense Nuclear Facilities Panel
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Category : Nuclear ships
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear ships
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993--H.R. 2100 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Dream Machine
Author: Richard Whittle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416563199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the United States Marine Corps. When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps’ own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft’s problems. Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416563199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the United States Marine Corps. When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps’ own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft’s problems. Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.