The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost Its Way
by R Michael Gordon
Even if everyone in the record crowd of 750,000+ that attended NASA’s 135th and final launch in July 2011 had paid $10 admittance, all that money wouldn’t put much of a dent into the $3 billion annual shuttle bill.
Engine Revolutions: The Autobiography of Max Bentele
by Max Bentele
This German mechanical engineer/scientist used extensive hands-on testing and mathematical analysis of the resulting data to systematically track down problems in engines and to analyze the viability of proposed new engine concepts. He became an expert in gas sealing, starting his jet engine education by solving the exploding blade problem.
Jet Engines: Fundamentals of Theory, Design and Operation
by Klaus Hünecke
This is the English edition of a book that first appeared in German in 1987. Following his own academic training the author worked as a university researcher and then joined industry as an aerodynamicist, working in first the military and currently the civilian sector.
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
by Steve Pace
Being able to travel at an altitude of 16 miles and cover 33 miles a minute is an unmatched achievement for a manned airplane even today, some 50 years after someone first dreamt up the Blackbird. Among its many records is the faster-ever New York London time (1974): 1:54:56 hrs which translates to 1806.96 mph!
Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
by Col. Richard H. Graham
As aircraft historian Jay Miller rightly says in his Foreword, this book is the “missing link” in the existing literature on the Blackbird, “arguably the most significant aircraft of our time.”
Concorde (Darling)
by Kev Darling
With over 20 years of RAF engineering background and over 20 aviation books since 1986 under his belt, Darling knows his way around an aircraft. Since seeing the first production examples being built at Filton he’s kept an eye on this plane and harbored a desire to learn more about it.
The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft
by David Myhra
WWII left the world with a number of very technologically advanced German twin-jet aircraft designs. The young Hortons were right there and made a mighty contribution.
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