North American Aviation in the Jet Age hardcover
North American Aviation in the Jet Age: The California Years: 1945–1997 hardcover
- Chronicles the postwar history, leadership, and products of North American Aviation (NAA)
- Aviation history buffs will delight in the story of the race to seize German technology post–World War II.
- Refinements to expropriated Nazi aerospace technology culminated with the 1969 moon landing
During the waning days of World War II, a frenzied race was underway in rubble-strewn Europe as US and Soviet forces sought to seize advanced German weapons technology. Over the next quarter century the North American Aviation (NAA) would enhance these spoils of war into fearsome weapons in America’s arsenal. There’s the swept-wing F-86 Sabre jet fighter, which would go on to be the only Allied warplane to outmaneuver a Soviet MiG-15 over Korea. X-15 rocket planes carried humans to the boundaries of space, setting speed and altitude records that still hold today. The stories of these weapons and the engineers who nourished them is a fascinating look into postwar corporate history of the NAA and its impact on the United States’ aviation and space history.
Published January 2020, 224 pages, 249 colour and black & white photographs, 11" X 8.5" (inches)
