Sidewinder: creative missile development at china lake
Auteur :
Westrum, Ron
Éditeur :
Naval Institute Press
ISBN :
9781591149811
Date de publication :
26 sept. 2013
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
517 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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, lead by Bill McLean, overcame Navy bureaucracy and more heavily funded projects to develop the world's best air-to-air missile.