Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

  Basket is empty
  Login Register

ROCKWELL THE HERITAGE OF NORTH AMERICA

Written by Bill Yenne
Published by Bison Books in 1989
ISBN: 086124544X

£ 12.00 Photo of ROCKWELL THE HERITAGE OF NORTH AMERICA- Stock Number: 2138459

ROCKWELL THE HERITAGE OF NORTH AMERICA
Written by Bill Yenne.
Stock no. 2138459
1st. 1989. Hardback. Large format. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. With over 250 photographs, diagrams and cutaway drawings. Blue boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 086124544X. Some pale browning to endpapers. Wrapper has a little edge-creasing.

Buy now for £12.00 Enquire about this book Add to Wish List

Front cover

Cover of ROCKWELL THE HERITAGE OF NORTH AMERICA by Bill Yenne

Contents

  • Introduction
  • THE BIRTH OF NORTH AMERICAN:
  • The Empire Builder
  • Enter General Motors
  • Dutch Kindelberger
  • North American Aviation
  • The Yale Family
  • The O-47 Program
  • THE TEXAN DYNASTY:
  • Her Origins
  • The World in Tumult
  • The NA-88 Texan
  • The Later Texans
  • DRAGONS AND MITCHELLS:
  • The XB-21 Program
  • The Birth of the B-25
  • The Doolittle Raid
  • The Mitchell at War
  • Postscript to a Great Career
  • The XB-28 Program
  • THE P-51 MUSTANG:
  • The Mustang is Born
  • The Evolution of the Mustang
  • The Mustang at War
  • Another War
  • The Postwar Years
  • The F-82 Twin Mustang
  • POSTWAR BOMBERS:
  • The B-45 Tornado
  • The AJ Savage
  • The A3D Vigilante
  • THE SABRE JET AND FURY
  • Early Evolution
  • The Sabre Jet at War
  • The Later Sabre Jets
  • The Sabre Dogs
  • The FJ Fury
  • THE FABULOUS FIFTIES:
  • North American Becomes Independent
  • The X-10/SM-64 Navajo
  • The Hound Dog
  • CENTURY FIGHTERS:
  • The F-100 Super Sabre
  • The F-107 Super Super Sabre
  • The F-108 Rapier
  • THE HYPERSONIC HIGH-SIXTIES
  • The X-15 Program
  • The XB-70 Program
  • The End of an Era
  • THEY ALSO FLEW:
  • The T-28 Trojan
  • The T-2 (T2J) Buckeye
  • The T-39/NA-285 Sabreliner
  • The OV-10 Bronco
  • PROJECT APOLLO:
  • The Scope of the Project
  • The Apollo Spacecraft
  • Project Development
  • Apollo to the Moon
  • The Post-Lunar Apollo
  • THE B-1 PROGRAM:
  • Early Development
  • Inside the B-1B
  • The B-1B in Service
  • (Sidebar: Ed Ford, B-1B Test Pilot)
  • THE SPACE SHUTTLE:
  • The Idea Come to Life
  • The STS in Space
  • The Halycon Days
  • Disaster and Retrenchment
  • The Return of the Shuttle
  • Index