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Author: David C. Aronstein Publisher: AIAA ISBN: 9781563471933 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 78
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This case study outlines the development of the Lightweight Fighter program, including the development, technology, and flight test history of the YF-16 and YF-17. The streamlined and highly successful Lightweight Fighter program effectively used experimental prototypes to introduce a set of new and advanced technologies to fighter aircraft, and serves as an excellent example of technology management, risk reduction in the development process, and acquisition philosophy.
Author: David C. Aronstein Publisher: AIAA ISBN: 9781563471933 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 78
Book Description
This case study outlines the development of the Lightweight Fighter program, including the development, technology, and flight test history of the YF-16 and YF-17. The streamlined and highly successful Lightweight Fighter program effectively used experimental prototypes to introduce a set of new and advanced technologies to fighter aircraft, and serves as an excellent example of technology management, risk reduction in the development process, and acquisition philosophy.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 372
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fighter planes Languages : en Pages : 272
Author: Michael W. Hankins Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150176067X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 248
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Flying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debates about aircraft superiority went public—and these were not uncontested discussions. Michael W. Hankins delves deep into the fighter pilot culture that gave rise to both designs, showing how a small but vocal group of pilots, engineers, and analysts in the Department of Defense weaponized their own culture to affect technological development and larger political change. The design and advancement of the F-15 and F-16 reflected this group's nostalgic desire to recapture the best of World War I air combat. Known as the "Fighter Mafia," and later growing into the media savvy political powerhouse "Reform Movement," it believed that American weapons systems were too complicated and expensive, and thus vulnerable. The group's leader was Colonel John Boyd, a contentious former fighter pilot heralded as a messianic figure by many in its ranks. He and his group advocated for a shift in focus from the multi-role interceptors the Air Force had designed in the early Cold War towards specialized air-to-air combat dogfighters. Their influence stretched beyond design and into larger politicized debates about US national security, debates that still resonate today. A biography of fighter pilot culture and the nostalgia that drove decision-making, Flying Camelot deftly engages both popular culture and archives to animate the movement that shook the foundations of the Pentagon and Congress.
Author: Marty Gitlin Publisher: Little Mitchie ISBN: 1545757682 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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The U.S. Air Force wanted an upgrade. It wanted a better fighter jet. One that could stay hidden from the enemy. One that could attack and destroy. One that could defend itself. One that could keep pilots safe. Keep U.S. ground troops safe. Keep Americans safe. Keep the world safe. A jet fighter that all friendly nations could use. This book is all about that aircraft. Part of the America's Fighter Jets series: F-35A Lightning II puts readers into the sky with the jet. This fun book gives young readers insight on how the F-35A Lightning II achieved its goals. And why fewer of them might be made in the future.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1428990488 Category : Languages : en Pages : 228
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In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices, Efficiency, and Open Government Publisher: ISBN: Category : Defense contracts Languages : en Pages : 222
Author: Jacob Neufeld Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437912877 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 344
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Proceedings of a symposium co-sponsored by the Air Force Historical Foundation and the Air Force History and Museums Program. The symposium covered relevant Air Force technologies ranging from the turbo-jet revolution of the 1930s to the stealth revolution of the 1990s. Illustrations.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 1522
Author: David C. Aronstein
Author: David C. Aronstein
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power
Author: Michael W. Hankins
Author: Marty Gitlin
Author: 
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices, Efficiency, and Open Government
Author: Jacob Neufeld
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense