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title: "From Archangel to Senior Crown: Design and Development of the Blackbird (Library of Flight)"
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# From Archangel to Senior Crown: Design and Development of the Blackbird (Library of Flight)

**Brand:** peter w. merlinned allen
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- **What is this?** From Archangel to Senior Crown: Design and Development of the Blackbird (Library of Flight) by peter w. merlinned allen
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From Archangel to Senior Crown: Design and Development of the Blackbird (Library of Flight)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All the technical details, and then some
*by M***B on August 24, 2008*

This is a great little great book on the Blackbird - SR-71 or YF-12. This is not a pretty picture book on the Blackbird, like so many already out in print. Instead this book details the background on the aircraft's design, its development from a few drawings from Kelly Johnson, to the building and flying of the Blackbird. It even details the history of the D-21 Mach 3 drone, something unknown until it showed up in the bone yard in the desert. There are many line drawings detailing the design and technology in the Blackbird. But for me, an old aeronautical engineer, the most interesting section was the ten pages of discussion and drawings of the prolusion system. Here you can see some detail of how the J58 operated as a turbojet at takeoff all the way to transforming itself into a turbo-ramjet at mach 3+. But what was totally unexpected was the disk inserted into the back of the book. This CD had manuals, reports, images and several short videos of the SR-71. To go through the flight manuals of the SR-71, the YF-12and theA-12 was amazing. Granted it is more detail that most would want to know, but still extremely interesting. It is probably the most detailed technical collection of information on this unique aircraft that I have ever seen, at least all unclassified. The line drawings are interesting, with a wealth of detail, only an engineer could truly love. While this book reads like a detailed technical history, it will still interest every SR-71 enthusiast. But this book has the engineering detail for those interested in a deeper technical understanding. The manuals are just amazing with their wealth of technical details and mind-numbing at the same time, with numerous graphs, operational discussions and schematics. I would say that this is the last word on Blackbird details.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ great aircrafts
*by H***8 on November 13, 2024*

Refresh a persons memory that was in the programs

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Blackbird Reference, reasonable amount of technical detail.
*by E***8 on January 18, 2019*

This book is an excellent reference on the design and development of the blackbirds. The included disk has a good amount of quality photos and pdfs of relevant documents. My disk reader had an issue reading some of the photos, but most of them worked. This is likely an issue with the disk reader, and i will update after trying another reader. The quality of the images is not super high res, but high enough to be suitable as desktop wall paper.The book itself it amazing, and the disk makes it all the sweeter. There is more detail than the average person would want, but it is still approachable. The information on the first 11 designs before the A-12 is something you do not typically see in blackbird books as it is usually glossed over. That said that section could have used more detail on how the designers choose the design parameters they did. i.e Why was a bi-delta used?, or why choose a particular propulsion setup. The book mentions some of the reasons at a vehicle trade off level, but less at a design feature level. As this is not the AIAA education series this is not really expected, but it would have been a useful aside to include.

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