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Regular calendars are printed borderless in full color on 100# 8-1/2" x 11" stock. They are coil bound.
If you can get your hands on a Monogram 1/72-scale Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress with X-15A-2 kit and a set of Cutting Edge NB-52 decals, you need this book to help you establish the appropriate paint scheme for any particular mission that you want to model.
The book is 96 pages long.
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It has been asserted that the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress, carrying Air Force serial 52-0008, can lay claim to being the airplane that has seen and participated in more history than any other single airplane. For forty-five years, the NB-52B was a fixture at Edwards Air Force Base. While the NB-52B is most famous for launching the three North American X-15 rocket planes, it continued to serve in the role of launch platform for a multitude of programs until its final mission on November 16, 2004. It was the oldest flying B-52 by nearly ten years.The NB-52B launched the three X-15 hypersonic rocket planes.
It launched the Northrop HL-10, Northrop M2-F2/F3, Martin Marietta X-24A and Martin Marietta X-24B lifting bodies.
It simulated the steep, power off approach to landing used by the Space Shuttles.
It assisted in the collection of data about wake turbulence from large aircraft.
It served as an air-to-air gunnery target.
It launched 3/8-scale F-15 Remotely Piloted Research Vehicles (RPRV) and Spin Research Vehicles (SRV).
It launched a Ryan Firebee II drone and the Ryan Firebee based Drones for Aeroelastic Structures Testing (DAST).
It launched the Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) RPRVs.
It dropped the 48,000-pound Space Shuttle Reusable Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB/DTV).
It released a simulated F-111 crew module from its bomb bay to evaluate new parachute recovery systems.
It was the first airplane to launch a satellite into orbit on the Orbital Sciences Pegasus booster.
It tested the drag chute used to decelerate space shuttle orbiters.
It tested pollution reducing fuel additives with a pair of jet engines mounted under its bomb bay.
It launched the X-38 Space Station Crew Return Vehicles.
It launched the X-43A Hyper-X Supersonic Combustion Ramjets.
The book is 200 pages long. It contains 246 color photographs, 89 black and white photographs, and 2 other illustrations.
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Put a copy of the softcover edition of Balls Eight: History of the Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress Mothership in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $74.95.
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The book is 172 pages long. It is available softbound with black-and-white printing or hardbound with color printing.
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The softbound edition contains 171 photographs and 77 other illustrations.
Put a copy of the softbound Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $39.95.
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The softbound edition of Flying Aircraft Carriers of the USAF: Project FICON is also available through the Lockett Books Amazon Webstore for $39.95. 
The hardcover edition contains 12 color photographs, 165 black-and-white photographs, 8 color illustrations and 69 black-and-white illustrations.
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Reprints of the Air Force Flight and Maintenance Handbooks for the GRB-36D.
The book is 236 pages long. It contains:
Utility Flight Handbook USAF Series GRB-36D-III/RF-84F Composite Aircraft
Utility Flight Handbook GRB-36D-III FICON Aircraft
Supplemental Handbook Maintenance Instructions USAF Series GRB-36D-III Aircraft
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Five vintage films produced by the Wright Air Development Center that feature Air Force efforts to carry, launch, and retrieve airplanes from giant propeller driven bombers in the early cold war era. These videos were digitized directly from 35mm films in the National Archives. The subjects include the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin in 1948-49, wing tip coupling a Culver Q-14 Cadet and Douglas C-47 Skytrain in 1949, wing tip coupling a pair of Republic F-84D Thunderjets and a Boeing B-29 Superfortress in 1950, and Project FICON, in which a GRB-36F carried an F-84E Thunderjet in 1952.
| AMC Pictorial Review Number 8 (10:42)
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin, Northrop XF-89 Scorpion XF-85 Initial Flight (Silent) (26:59)
Investigation of Aircraft in Coupled Flight (8:11)
Range Extension of Bomber Escort (11:54)
Reconnaissance Parasite Aircraft (16:29)
Total Running Time: 74:15 |
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These videos capture the sights and sounds of steam locomotives running in southern California. Chase the Santa Fe 3751 Northern class steam locomotive as it pulls the California Limited from North Edwards to Bakersfield on December 28, 1991 and from Oro Grande Canyon to Azusa on December 30, 1991. Then follow the Union Pacific 3985 Challenger on an excursion from Pomona to Yermo on August 20, 2000. Running time: 58 minutes.
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