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Aircraft Related Reading
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General Reference

Testing Top Guns
US Air Force and Navy Test & Evaluation Squadrons... Covering: Edwards AFB, Eglin AFB, NAS Patuxent River, NAS Point Mugu & NAWS China Lake.

By J. Hunter

North Spin Recommended!
This is as good as it gets as far as a book that concentrates purely on US test units... Which is good, because it's really the ONLY book! All the major bases and units are covered... In just the first few pages I learned a few things I didn't know, and at least 3/4 of the photos are previously unpublished to my knowledge. Eglin in particular has a lot of fresh material... Well worth the money.

Flying the Edge
The Making of Navy Test Pilots

By Jim Wilson


Modern Battlefield Warplanes
A-10, AH-64, AH-1, AV-8B, Ka-50, Mil-24 & SU-25

By David Donald & Daniel J. March


The Quest for Mach One
A First-Person Account of Breaking the Sound Barrier

By James A. Doolittle, Chuck Yeager & Walter J. Boyne


Shadow Flights
America's Secret Airwar Against the Soviet Union: A Cold War History

By Curtis Peebles


Century Jets
USAF Frontline Fighters of the Cold War

By David Donald


Edwards Air Force Base
Open House at the USAF Flight Test Center 1957-1966: A Photo Chronicle of Aircraft Displayed

By Robert D. Archer


Flying Without Wings
NASA Lifting Bodies and the Birth of the Space Shuttle

By Milton O. Thompson & Curtis Peebles


NASA Wings
A Look at NASA's Unique Fleet of Specially Modified Aircraft

By Nigel MacKnight

North Spin Recommended!
This book is out of print, but worth having if they have a used copy available. It covers the aircraft that were flown at each research center, up to about 1992.

Superfighters
The Next Generation of Combat Aircraft

By Mel Williams


Dyna-Soar
Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System

By Robert Godwin


At the Controls
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Book of Cockpits

By Tom Alison, Dana Bell, Eric F. Long & Mark A. Avino


Sidewinder
Creative Missile Development at China Lake

By Ron Westrum


Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide Fourth Edition
Jane's Recognition Guide Series

By Mike Gething & Gunter Endres


Graphic War
The Secret Aviation Drawings And Illustrations of World War II

By Donald Nijboer


Modern Commercial Aircraft
A Revised and Updated Illustrated Directory of the World's Civil Airliners, Aircraft Technology and Airlines

By Gunter Endres


Wonderful Flying Machines
A History of U.S. Coast Guard Helicopters

By Barrett Thomas Beard


Fighter Pilot's Heaven
Flight Testing the Early Jets

By Donald S. Lopez


An Illustrated Anatomy of the World's Fighters
The Inside Story of over 100 Classics in the Evolution of Fighter Aircraft

By William Green & Gordon Swanborough


Flying to the Limit
Testing World War II Single-engined Fighter Aircraft

By Peter Caygill


U.S. Naval Aviation
National Museum of Naval Aviation (U. S.),Naval Aviation Museum Foundation

By M. Hill Goodspeed & Richard R. Burgess


Instruments Of Darkness
The History Of Electronic Warfare,1939-1945

By Alfred Price


The X-Planes (3rd Edition)
X-1 to X-45

By Jay Miller


Military Airframe Costs
The Effects of Advances Materials and Manufacturing Processes

By Obaid Younossi


Military Aircraft Boneyards
Examines the fate of obsolete military aircraft.

By Nicholas A. Veronico, A. Kevin Grantham & Scott Thompson


Brassey's Modern Fighters
The Ultimate Guide to In-Flight Tactics, Technology, Weapons, and Equipment

By Mike Spick


The Great Book of Modern Warplanes
General Reference

By Chrysalis Books


Faster, Further, Higher
Leading-edge Aviation Technology since 1945 (Putnam's History of Aircraft)

By Phillip Jarrett


Jane's All World Aircraft -2005-06
Jane's All the World's Aircraft Series

By Paul Jackson, Kenneth Munson & Lindsay Peacock


Attack Of The Drones
A History Of Unmanned Aerial Combat

By Bill Yenne


Designed for the Kill
The Jet Fighter: Development & Experience

By Mike Spick


Infamous Aircraft
Dangerous Designs and their Vices

By Robert Jackson


Dark Eagles
A History of Top Secret U.S. Aircraft

By Curtis Peebles




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