This publication provides a fascinating look at NASA's research program using the YF-12. Among the aircraft designs that transitioned from paper to hardware during the high-speed era, the Lockheed Blackbirds hold a unique place. 

The National Aerospace Initiative (NAI) was conceived as a joint effort between the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to sustain the aerospace leadership of the United States through the acceleration of selected aerospace technologies: hypersonic flight, access to space, and space technologies. 

In this book Curtis Peebles tells the story of the ''Dark Eagles''. These were planes which were developed, tested and operated in deepest secrecy and pushed aviation technology to its farthest limits.'

"Ed Heinemann has been the guiding force behind a remarkably successful series of combat aircraft, from the Dauntless dive bomber to the A-4 Skyhawk jet. In this comprehensive autobiographical record of his achievements, Ed Heinemann and coauthor, Rosario "Zipp" Rausea, have tried to tell it like it was, including the lows as well as the highs."

The Aerospace Industry Report 4th Edition addresses aerospace manufacturing and the national economy, the international economy, and the global aerospace marketplace.

 It also includes data on the U.S. aerospace workforce, aerospace clusters, the financial state of the aerospace industry, cyber security, the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the U.S national airspace system, and America's role in space are also addressed. 

The history of propeller airliners, from the first dramatic passenger flights in converted World War I planes of the great turboprops of the 1940s and 1950s, is a proud one. 

Though outnumbered on today's major air routes, the propeller-driven airliner is successfully holding its own and is now challenging jet liners on short routes where fuel economy is important.

This encyclopedia is the first fully international guide to list all the world's manufacturers of production aircraft, both military and civil from the beginning of powered flight to the present day.

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Graphite, carbon fiber, Kevlar, prepregs -- these are advanced composites in wide use by today's manufacturers. The processes and skills needed to produce composite parts and components are unique; training in this high-skills sector is vital and opens up many opportunities to employees and apprentices in the industry.