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From: cdr@amd.com (Carl Rigney)
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Subject: Book on U-2 & a little on SR71's
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From: cdr@amd.com (Carl Rigney)


The Black Watch: The men who fly America's secret spy planes
Ernest K. Gann
Random House, New York, 1989
ISBN 0-394-57507-5
UG763.G36
210pp

1. Aerial reconnaissance
2. United States, Air Force, Squadron, 99th
3. U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft)
4. SR-71 (Jet reconnaissance plane)

Not a lot of hardcore data but some interesting writing on what
its like to be one of the men who fly U-2s and SR-71s (but mostly
U-2s) from the author of _Fate is the Hunter_.  Several good jokes
about SR-71s and a nice scene with Kelly Johnson and Eisenhower.

--
Carl Rigney
cdr@amd.com
"What's the difference between a porcupine and an SR-71?"