Top products from r/WarplanePorn
We found 17 product mentions on r/WarplanePorn. We ranked the 16 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Back Bay Books
2. The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
3. Balls Eight: History of the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress Mothership
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
4. XB-70 Valkyrie: The Ride to Valhalla
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
5. Stealth Fighter: A Year in the Life of an F-117 Pilot
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
6. Thud Ridge: F-105 Thunderchief Missions Over Vietnam
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
7. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
8. Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15 (Revised Edition) (Specialty Press)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
9. Radar Cross Section (Radar, Sonar and Navigation)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
10. Iranian Tigers at War: Northrop F-5A/B, F-5E/F and Sub-Variants in Iranian Service since 1966 (Middle East@War)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
11. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Updated with New Information and Additional Patches They’re on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldier’s unit does. But what if that’s top secret? “A glimpse of [the Pentagon’s] dark world through a revealing lens—patches—the kind worn on military unifor...
12. Werner 5906 Ladder, 6-Foot
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
High performance holster top paint and tool holder with sturdy paint can hanger on back side of topEDGE molded brace and foot pad combination provides enhances bracing strength and increased protection against damageExternal Pinch-Proof spreadersSlip resistant Traction-Tred stepsDurable, rugged mold...
Hypersonic: The Story of the North American X-15 (Revised Edition), Dennis Jenkins, (Specialty Press) Paperback – August 15, 2008 is a great read, recently reprinted in paperback. Documents the program from its inception under NACA in 1954 to the final flight in 1968. On of the first problems to overcome was designing a hypersonic wind tunnel. The official world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a manned, powered aircraft, set in October 1967 when William J. "Pete" Knight flew at 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h), or Mach 6.72, and has remained unchallenged as of 2016. While the Space Shuttle has flown faster it is classified as a spacecraft, not an aircraft.
There is a companion book about Balls 8 (NB-52 0008), the NASA Boeing NB-52B mothership. At its retirement on 17 December 2004, Balls 8 was the oldest active B-52 in service, and the only active B-52 not of the H model. It also had the lowest total airframe time of any operational B-52. It is on permanent public display near the north gate of Edwards Air Force Base in California.
It appears to be a Werner 5906 decked out in a beautiful John Deere green and yellow.
> If you want to learn more about Lockheed Martin and how stealth works, read
a more effective starting point would be this resource: https://www.amazon.com/Radar-Cross-Section-Scitech-Defense/dp/1891121251/
A good, if somewhat dry, read about this aircraft's fascinating development
https://www.amazon.com/Valkyrie-American-Ill-fated-Supersonic-Bomber-ebook/dp/B00E8HPL6E
From Ben Rich's book, SkunkWorks, he would take ball bearings and roll them across desks at the Pentagon "Here's your new plane on radar". Took them a while to prove to many that it was true.
Just bought this book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316743003/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_Qel2BbHG7MS0B
And just started the section about the blackbird. Very excited for that.
For the B-36 fans - watch Strategic Air Command (free on Prime), tons of B-36 footage including a tour of the inside. Plus Jimmy Stewart, who also flew them.
https://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Fighter-Year-F-117-Pilot/dp/0760341354
You'd think...there's a book of patches that covers a lot more than just the bird of prey.
Link to said book
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According to XB-70 Valkyrie: The Ride To Valhalla, published 1998, AV-3 had a somewhat different design than the first two. A different crew configuration (4 crew total), a radome, a larger equipment bay and weapons bay, and some other changes, mostly in the lower fuselage section (engine pod area). The raw materials had all been procured, and the parts were being fabricated, and some of the avionics were complete. By that time, the writing was on the wall for the program, with SAMs and ICBMs negating its role, and a whole grab-bag of possible uses for AV-3 were proposed in order to keep the program alive. They suggested high-speed aerodynamic research, use as a launch platform for satellites on rockets or satellite-killing missiles, as a test bed for new types of high-speed and space engines, and was even evaluated for the new hotness of low-altitude penetration, which it was manifestly unsuited for.
The book says that in 1997, there was some evidence that parts of the AV-3 might be found in a particular factory in California, but all that was found was a bit of the cockpit section, the rest possibly having been scrapped in the early 1990s. There were only a total of 32 YJ-93-3 engines made for the program, and the book says only 17 could be accounted for, with no records at all indicating where the others might be, or if they had been scrapped.
The F-105 was a fantastic aircraft that adapted to many different scenarios which it was not necessarily designed for. Everything from SEAD to CAP to tactical bombing.
It's very sad and frustrating though to see how many losses were due to poor command and control. Asking Thuds to destroy a steel and concrete bridge with only a cannon or demanding bombs be dropped from 10K feet meant more passes and thus more losses. There are a lot of great books about the Thud and its pilots. Here are a few I'd suggest.
There's a relatively new book largely based on official IRIAF documentation, covering Northrop F-5A/B, RF-5A & F-5E/Fs in service in Iran:
http://www.amazon.com/Iranian-Tigers-War-Northrop-Sub-Variants/dp/1910294136?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
It is not citing the total number of sorties flown, but making it clear that the type predominantly flew CAS and interdiction, and suffered significant losses to ground-based air defences, but also Iraqi MiGs. A total of 77 F-5Es, 6 F-5Fs, 1 RF-5A and 1 F-5B were written off during the war (to all reasons, including accidents). 55 pilots were lost too, of whom 46 were KIA.
The book mentions only three kills against Iraqi MiGs and Sukhois.