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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake by Ron Westrum

• Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake
• Ron Westrum
• Page: 352
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781591149811
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desired. This is the story of how that unorthodox team, led by visionary Bill McLean, overcame U.S. Navy bureaucracy and other more heavily funded projects to develop the world's best air-to-air missile. Author Ron Westrum examines that special time and place--when the old American work ethic and "can do" spirit were a ...