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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.
It looks like a type of delta wing. I looked up delta wing types and found this very image on a wikipedia page. It's called a double delta(or composite delta) due to it being a merging of two or more delta shapes.
Security during the Manhattan Project was severally lacking anyways.
I recommend the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" in which he describes how he cracks the safes of superiors if they needed a file but the guy wasn't around. He'd even tell them how to crack the safes, but instead of buying better ones they instead warned people to not let Feynman alone with their safes ....
Zhukovsky is on my bucket list
TU-144, TU-160, SU-27 and if I am lucky, like in the picture, AN-124 just sitting there.
Sure, here is a fantastic presentation of how SkunkWorks was created: https://youtu.be/pL3Yzjk5R4M It talks about U2, A-12/SR-71 and F-117. it's very interesting. Also, you can find a book from Ben Rich itself about SkunkWorks. https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003
A little google-fu identifies this F-14 as BU#159600, "Christine." Originally built as an F-14A, entered service in 1975, rebuilt as F-14D in the 90's. Retired in 2006 and transported (in pieces) to Texas.
Here's an 18-page photo gallery of her state upon delivery to the museum.
My uncle flew 260 combat missions in Vietnam in the B-57. He loved the plane (got him home every time). Here's a book about the Canberra in Vietnam: https://www.amazon.com/Canberra-Units-Vietnam-Combat-Aircraft/dp/1846039711
I bought these books at the mall when I was in high school in 1992. I also had a magazine about the ATF competition from 1991 with pictures as well. Then I spent the next 15 years waiting for it to be operational.
https://www.amazon.com/YF-22-YF-23-Advanced-Tactical-Superiority/dp/0879385057/
https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Stealth-Fighters-Bombers-F-117/dp/0879386096/
> The second picture is an older C-130. When was that plane made again?
Judging by it's glass cockpit, I assume it was upgraded somewhere between 2002 and 2010.
> But the unit there is a flight model, not an Google maps.
That's GPSMAP 695/696, a civilian version that you can buy easily (or at least could, it is a bit outdated nowadays).
> By the way, how's Russia's navigation system doing? Lol
Uhh, it's operating in full force for almost 15 years by now.
If that was some elaborate joke, then I didn't get it.
> It is accurate, and is allowed and able to us specialized software.
What, like ProNebo? Who would've thought... /s
> how the fuck is it even comparable?
> it used as a EFB, and not their primary navigation source
You answered it yourself.
I have exactly this f14 as an aircraft model. A beautiful plane
Here it is: - Militärisches Kampfflugzeug 1/100 F-14A Tomcat US Navy VF-84 1981 aus dem Film TOP Gun (CP01A) https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08NTNQZ2D/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_Z23BVC30T3YFNCMME0RJ
Unit-issued shorts. The AFI specifically calls out a specific product from Dickies, Rinsed Timber color (UPS Brown shorts). But that was a year ago. Could be different now.
Dickies Men's 11 Inch Lightweight Duck Carpenter Short https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EC8426E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_EA6HV0WXXV7CKWNPJEN5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Ploesti: The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943, Revised Edition (Brassey's Aviation Classics (Paperback)) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1574885103/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_HHEQGZAT43EQSZH5DJS6
u/aenild, u/GeektrooperEU, u/Reveley97 and everyone else that wonders about the source of the book, i believe it is this one. Havent had the chance to buy/read it myself yet.
this it it - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Air-Combat-0/dp/0517412659
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old but amazing book, first third is all about military aviation technology and history, middle third has really detailed illustrations of various jets and their full loadout options and the final third is about air combat tactics which this diagram is in if I remember right
For this wondering, this is a rendering by Erik Simonsen - here is the original (higher-quality) version without the watermark cropped out.
this is a pretty good book on Tolkachev, a head engineer in the bureau designing all the radars for soviet planes in the late 70s, 80s and early 90s that spied for the CIA
https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Spy-Espionage-Betrayal/dp/0345805976
Well, there was an RC-135 flying near Kamchatka that day. And according to ICAO report, Soviet Air Force Command, due to circumstances, was actually convinced that this was the second spy plane.
And the autor of said conspiracy theory was David Pearson.
https://www.amazon.com/Kal-007-Cover-David-Pearson/dp/0671557165
>efim Gordon and Dmitry Kommisarovs book
He meant this probably > https://www.amazon.com/Sukhoi-27-30-33-34/dp/1910809187 (ISBN 1910809187, 9781910809181)
If you can get past the extremely cringey, heavily biased "god, guns 'n 'Murica!" narration Amazon Prime has what is an otherwise excellent documentary about F-105's in Vietnam called Thud Pilots
> 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/