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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. The Weapon Nobody Asked For; 2. The Gadgeteer; 3. The Problem Takes Shape; 4. The Wrong Laboratory; 5. Struggles with Infrared; 6. The Weapons Shop; 7. Systems Engineering; 8. The Painted Bird; 9. Crunch Time; 10. To the Fleet; 11. Selling the Air Force; 12. High-Altitude Testing; 13. The Creative Dialogue; 14. Early Generations; 15. Later Generations; 16. In Combat; 17. Building People at China Lake; 18. Building Ideas at China Lake; 19. The Past and Future Laboratory; Notes; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. Sidewinder is the story of how that unorthodox team at China Lake, lead by the visionary Bill McLean, overcame Navy bureaucracy and more heavily funded projects to develop the world's best air-to-air missile. Based on years of research and hundreds of interviews, Westrum's study examines the unique military-civilian cult of creativity that helped Mclean and his China Lake team produce an. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Naval Weapons Center.
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Naval Weapons Center. |
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Sidewinder (Missile) -- Design and construction.
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Sidewinder (Missile) |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
United States Naval Institute, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Westrum, Ron, 1945- author. Sidewinder 9781591149811 (OCoLC)854618216 |
| ISBN |
9781612513638 (electronic book) |
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1612513638 (electronic book) |
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9781591149811 |
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1591149819 |
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