An essential new account of some of the most valuable research and
development in international military history. Roy F. Houchin II
shows how the roots of US Air Force hypersonic research and
development are grounded in Army Air Force General Henry H. 'Hap'
Arnold's identification of the need for advanced airpower weapon
systems to meet the anticipated postwar enemy threat. The
technology for a smooth transition to military spaceflight seemed
within reach when Bell Aircraft Corporation executive Walter
Dornberger (the former commander of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket
research) made an unsolicited proposal to William E. Lamar (the
chief of Wright Aeronautical Development Center's New Development
Office of the Bomber Aircraft Division at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH)
for a hypersonic boost-glide weapon system. Visionaries like
Arnold, Dornberger, and Lamar believed a hypersonic boost-glider
would represent the ultimate expression of the US Air Force's
doctrine by performing strategic bombardment and reconnaissance
more successfully any other type of vehicle. As this aspiration
reached maturity in Dyna-Soar, the service's leadership never gave
up their beliefs. This book shows how the struggle to persuade the
secretary of defence and his advisors, who did not share the Air
Force's vision for a military spaceplane, illustrates the ebb and
flow of an advanced technology program and its powerful legacy
within American society.
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