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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0190677449
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9780190677442
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Stealth : the Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
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Military Science, United States / 20th Century, Military / Strategy, Military / United States
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Yes
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Technology & Engineering, History
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Hardcover
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1.1 in
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20 oz
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Reviews
"The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University.,Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineersDLwhich motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet UnionDLand the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks "In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal "A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists "Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers--which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union--and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs "This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "A lucid and lively account of the achievement of what many thought impossible and resisted - sizable attack aircraft essentially invisible to radar. Westwick writes the story of the Stealth bombers on the expansive canvas of southern California, drawing in the security-veiled iconoclasm of the region's aerospace enterprise, the strategic thinking of its post-Vietnam military patrons, the innovations enabled by both computing and technical intuition, the passionate obsession of the physicists and engineers who envisioned the aircraft, and the differences in the technological cultures between Lockheed and Northrop, the ferociously competitive corporations where they turned their ideas into two divergent flight-ready realities. A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." --Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, author of The Physicists "As Peter Westwick notes in his elegant Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft, U.S. wartime radar research was bigger than the Manhattan Project. Westwick's stated goal is to write the story of the engineers and midlevel military officers who champion new military technologies history from the middle (a term he borrows from the historian Paul Kennedy ). Mr. Westwick pulls it off by balancing a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." --Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineersDLwhich motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet UnionDLand the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "A lucid and lively account of the achievement of what many thought impossible and resisted - sizable attack aircraft essentially invisible to radar. Westwick writes the story of the Stealth bombers on the expansive canvas of southern California, drawing in the security-veiled iconoclasm of the region's aerospace enterprise, the strategic thinking of its post-Vietnam military patrons, the innovations enabled by both computing and technical intuition, the passionate obsession of the physicists and engineers who envisioned the aircraft, and the differences in the technological cultures between Lockheed and Northrop, the ferociously competitive corporations where they turned their ideas into two divergent flight-ready realities. A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." --Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, author of The Physicists "As Peter Westwick notes in his elegant Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft, U.S. wartime radar research was bigger than the Manhattan Project. Westwick's stated goal is to write the story of the engineers and midlevel military officers who champion new military technologies history from the middle (a term he borrows from the historian Paul Kennedy ). Mr. Westwick pulls it off by balancing a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." --Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal "In his excellent new book, Stealth, Peter Westwick argues that the solution was the product of a host of special circumstances, fortuitous geography, and the aggregation of thousands of innovative and highly skilled individuals in Southern California. This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." --F. Robert van der Linden, Science Magazine, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture "[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks "In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal "A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists "Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers--which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union--and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs "This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers--which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union--and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "The U.S. innovation system fostered different approaches to a specific problem, and stealth mobilized a huge amount of talent and human energy- like many high-tech Cold War ventures. Historians of business, technology, and the military as well as sociologists will find Stealth richly rewarding." -- Dimitrios Ziakkas, Dimitrios Ziakkas is an assistant professor in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technology at Purdue University., Technology and Culture"[A] valuable contribution to Cold War history." -- Tom Ricks"In his elegant Stealth, Peter Westwick balanc[es] a modest level of technical detail with a keen eye for the people involved, drawing on extensive interviews and oral histories. The vividness Mr. Westwick achieves is all the more impressive given the secrecy of the stealth world." -- Konstantin Kakaes, The Wall Street Journal"A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." -- Daniel J. Kevles, author of The Physicists"Westwick does a good job of explaining the engineering principles at work, the competitive instinct of the engineers'e"which motivated them more than did a patriotic desire to gain the upper hand over the Soviet Union'e"and the advantages of a close partnership between the private sector and the state." -- Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs"This concise, highly readable history of the creation, development, and application of one of the most important technologies of the Cold War brings clarity and a thorough understanding to this complex subject." -- F. Robert van der Linden, Science, "A lucid and lively account of the achievement of what many thought impossible and resisted - sizable attack aircraft essentially invisible to radar. Westwick writes the story of the Stealth bombers on the expansive canvas of southern California, drawing in the security-veiled iconoclasm of the region's aerospace enterprise, the strategic thinking of its post-Vietnam military patrons, the innovations enabled by both computing and technical intuition, the passionate obsession of the physicists and engineers who envisioned the aircraft, and the differences in the technological cultures between Lockheed and Northrop, the ferociously competitive corporations where they turned their ideas into two divergent flight-ready realities. A rich, compelling, and eye-opening book." --Daniel J. Kevles, Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University, author of The Physicists
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
623.746
Table Of Content
Chapter 1. Roots of the Revolution Chapter 2. Dark Days in the Sunshine State Chapter 3. Breeding Invisible Rabbits Chapter 4. Lockheed: Tin Shed in a Hurricane Chapter 5. Northrop: Seeing the Waves Chapter 6. Shootout at RATSCAT Chapter 7. Have Blue and the F-117 Chapter 8. Secrets and Strategies Chapter 9. The Whale Chapter 10. Winning the B-2 Chapter 11. Building the B-2 Chapter 12. Stealth and the Modern Military
Synopsis
In Stealth: The Secret Race to Invent an Invisible Aircraft Peter Westwick reveals the process by which the U.S. military was able to produce this undetectable machine, first in the form of the F-117A, then the B-2 bomber, one sharply angular and the other smooth and round. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the contemporary understanding of physics and engineering, Westwick offers a unique narrative, one which immerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that might save the world from nuclear Apocalypse. Stealth is a nuanced and engaging narrative about engineering ingenuity and provides a fresh view of the Cold War period., On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating. Peter Westwick's new book illuminates the story behind these aircraft, the F-117A, also known as the Stealth Fighter, and their close cousin the B-2, also known as the Stealth Bomber. The development of Stealth unfolded over decades. Radar has been in use since the 1930s and was essential to the Allies in World War Two, when American investment in radar exceeded that in the Manhattan Project. The atom bomb ended the war, conventional wisdom has it, but radar won it. That experience also raised a question: could a plane be developed that was invisible to radar? That question, and the seemingly impossible feat of physics and engineering behind it, took on increasing urgency during the Cold War, when the United States searched for a way both to defend its airspace and send a plane through Soviet skies undetected. Thus started the race for Stealth. At heart, Stealth is a tale of not just two aircraft but the two aerospace companies that made them, Lockheed and Northrop, guided by contrasting philosophies and outsized personalities. Beginning in the 1970s, the two firms entered into a fierce competition, one with high financial stakes and conducted at the highest levels of secrecy in the Cold War. They approached the problem of Stealth from different perspectives, one that pitted aeronautical designers against electrical engineers, those who relied on intuition against those who pursued computer algorithms. The two different approaches manifested in two very different solutions to Stealth, clearly evident in the aircraft themselves: the F-117 composed of flat facets, the B-2 of curves. For all their differences, Lockheed and Northrop were located twenty miles apart in the aerospace suburbs of Los Angeles, not far from Disneyland. This was no coincidence. The creative culture of postwar Southern California-unorthodox, ambitious, and future-oriented-played a key role in Stealth. Combining nail-biting narrative, incisive explanation of the science and technology involved, and indelible portraits of unforgettable characters, Stealth immerses readers in the story of an innovation with revolutionary implications for modern warfare., The story behind the technology that revolutionized both aeronautics, and the course of history On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen airplanes appeared in the skies over Baghdad. Or, rather, didn't appear. They arrived in the dark, their black outlines cloaking them from sight. More importantly, their odd, angular shapes, which made them look like flying origami, rendered them undetectable to Iraq's formidable air defenses. Stealth technology, developed during the decades before Desert Storm, had arrived. To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, this seemingly ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth , Peter Westwick unveils the process by which the impossible was achieved. At heart, Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuity and determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one that immerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it.
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UG1242.S73W47 2020
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