Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Sidewinder : Creative Missile Development at China Lake - Ron Westrum

Sidewinder

Creative Missile Development at China Lake

By: Ron Westrum

eBook | 15 August 2013 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eBook

RRP $45.67

$36.99

19%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $9.25 with

 or 

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. Sidewinder is the story of how that unorthodox team at China Lake, lead by the visionary Bill McLean, overcame Navy bureaucracy and more heavily funded projects to develop the world's best air-to-air missile. Based on years of research and hundreds of interviews, Westrum’s study examines the unique military-civilian cult of creativity that helped Mclean and his China Lake team produce an amazing array of technological and engineering marvels. In the intellectual pressure cooker provided by the desert isolation, the scientists dreamed and tinkered while test pilots such as Wally Schirra and Glenn Tierney took to the air, often risking life and limb to test a fledgling system. Against the ongoing story of billion-dollar weapons development contracts, astronomical cost overruns, and defense acquisitions scandals, this revealing, highly readable account of the development of one of the most successful weapons in history provides an instructive contrast.
on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionWarfare & DefenceAir Forces & WarfareEngineering & TechnologyOther Technologies & Applied SciencesMilitary EngineeringHistoryMilitary HistoryWeapons & Equipment

More in Weapons & Equipment

A Short History of World War I : Short History - James L. Stokesbury

eBOOK

A Short History of World War I

Short History

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF
One Soldier's Story : A Memoir - Bob Dole

eBOOK

One Soldier's Story

A Memoir

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF
One Day in History : December 7, 1941 - Rodney P. Carlisle

eBOOK

One Day in History

December 7, 1941

eBook

RRP $21.99

$17.99

18%
OFF
Dust to Dust : A Memoir - Benjamin Busch

eBOOK

Dust to Dust

A Memoir

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF

This product is categorised by