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Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

By Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos

North Spin Recommended!
Ben Rich gives lots of insight on the politics and inner workings of Lockheed, during what was arguably the most innovative time in aviation history.

Lockheed Secret Projects
Inside the Skunk Works

By Dennis R. Jenkins


Lockheed's Blackworld Skunk Works
The U2, SR-71 and F-117

By Paul Crickmore


Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works
The Official History

By Jay Miller


Sailors, Scientists and Rockets
Origins of the Navy rocket program and of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, (History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California)

By Albert B Christman


The Grand Experiment at Inyokern
Narrative of the Naval Ordnance Test Station During the Second World War and the Immediate Postwar Years (History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, Volume 2)

By J. D Gerrard-Gough


Sidewinder
Creative Missile Development at China Lake

By Ron Westrum


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

By Robert D. Archer


On the Frontier
Experimental Flight at NASA Dryden

By Richard P. Hallion & Michael H. Gorn


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.

Dreamland
Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51

By Phil Patton


Moffett Field
Images of Aviation

By Nicholas A. Veronico


Military Aircraft Boneyards
Examines the fate of obsolete military aircraft.

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


Inside the Ironworks
How Grumman's Glory Days Faded

By George M. Skurla & William H. Gregory


Lockheed Aircraft
The History of Lockheed Martin (Aircraft Cutaways)

By Bill Gunston & Mike Badrocke


The Illustrated History of McDonnell Douglas Aircraft
From Cloudster to Boeing (Aircraft Cutaways)

By Bill Gunston & Mike Badrocke


Edwards
Home of the Right Stuff (Superbase Volume 12)

By George Hall




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