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Title: XB-70 Valkyrie: The Ride to Valhalla by Jeannette Remak, Joseph A. Ventolo, Jeannette Remak ISBN: 0-7603-0555-2 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The best of 3 minimal books
Comment: As a book dedicated to such an historic aircraft there is surprisingly little information about the aircraft. There's lots of writing about the history surrounding the aircraft's development and political struggles, but almost no information about what the aircraft actually did (and couldn't do). The author spends a lot of pages blaming politicians for the cancellation of the aircraft without discussing it's significant technical problems. Compared to what is now available regarding the SR-71, the story of the XB-70 has yet to be thoroughly recounted.
Rating: 5
Summary: XB-70 Valkyrie:The Ride to Valhalla
Comment: This is a history, not a picture book. While photographic collections are important, they should be supplemented with meaningful history. That is what this book does. It gives previously unreported historical details, along with supporting photography. Other books can supply the additional photographic details. This book has heart. The authors have made sure that the real story is told, not just the official version. Wouldn't it have been nice if they'd been allowed to print everything they know?
Rating: 3
Summary: Only history of the program
Comment: The XB70 has been a great mistery for a long time. Its secrecy was largely due to the great leap in aeronautical science when the technological race between US and former CCCP was at its peak. Designed successor to B52, the XB70 has a troubled story from the start, its fortunes were forever sealed by McNamara's will to terminate the program. The book is about the history of political tribulations at all levels (USAF comands and interservice rivalry plus adverse lobbying in the Kennedy Administration and in the Congress, the last being not enough supportive). A respectable critical survey on program managment is given, providing a chronological description of machinations that overshadowed even the final experimental program.
Many details are covered but always from the historical point of view. The volume does not provide many technical facts and it still lacks a description of the airplane engine and systems, besides a precise perfomance summary is missing. The most important facet is the conversation record of the crash (XB70 ship AV002 and NF104 n°813). If the reader is looking for some Washington politics insight or behind the scene work, the narrative style is remarkable, but if he is looking for technicalities he has to wait for a new release or new bunch of declassified data.
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Title: North America XB-70A Valkyrie (Volume 34) by Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis ISBN: 1580070566 Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: North American Xb-70 Valkyrie: A Photo Chronicle by John M. Campbell, Garry R. Pape ISBN: 0887409067 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: X-15 Photo Scrapbook by Tony R. Landis, Dennis R. Jenkins ISBN: 1580070744 Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Magnesium Overcast: The Story of the Convair B-36 by Dennis R. Jenkins ISBN: 1580070426 Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: A-12 Blackbird Declassified (Motorbooks ColorTech) by Jeannette Remak, Joe Ventolo Jr. ISBN: 0760310009 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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