Black Watch: The Men Who Fly America's Secret Spy Planes

by Ernest K. Gann

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394575075
• ISBN13: 9780394575070
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable & Interesting Book

If you are into US Air Force equipment and history then this will be a very interesting and fun book for you. The book covers both the aircraft that have been used over the past 35 years to gather intelligence and the missions the crews undertake. The book focuses on the jet age and really spends its time the aircraft that were in use when the book was published, the U2 and the SR 71. The author does a great job of describing the aircraft and the corresponding pictures within the book are a great help. I was also very impressed with the detail he goes into with the types of missions the US is performing now. The author does a good job with his writing, at times when describing aircraft performance etc it is difficult to make it fun to read, but this author did it. With JSTARS and the unmanned craft now in use this book is a bit dated, but it offers a great review of the U2 and SR 71 plus an interesting view at what was to come out in the 90's - equipment we are seeing being used today. This is an interesting book and one for the collection.