Author: Rick Bishop
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 9781636243535
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Top-Secret "Black Cats" undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War.
The Black Cats of Osan
Author: Rick Bishop
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 9781636243535
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Top-Secret "Black Cats" undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War.
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 9781636243535
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Top-Secret "Black Cats" undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War.
Black Cats of Osan
Author: Rick Bishop
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1636243541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The story of the top-secret “Black Cats” who undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War. Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth’s atmosphere, the U-2’s extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly classified ground site, located at Osan Air Base, Korea. From there, the top-secret intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products are distributed to the highest levels of command authority within the United States. Although the Dragon Lady has been in continuous service for nearly 70 years, she has always been considered a “National Asset,” with technology so sophisticated that she outlasted her “replacement”—the SR-71—decades ago. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Rick Bishop, a former U-2 pilot, takes the reader deep into the Black World of non-satellite ISR to reveal how a small detachment of 100 hand-selected personnel with only eight pilots and two aircraft became the most reliable and productive air force unit to ever utilize the Dragon Lady during the Cold War and to this day. As second-in-command of Detachment 2 (Det 2) of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing during the mid-1980s, Rick kept a detailed journal of the daily operations that routinely launched pilots on high-altitude solo missions lasting at least nine hours. Wearing full-pressure suits similar to those utilized by the Shuttle astronauts, these missions took a physiological toll on each pilot who upon return had to coax the Lady, universally known for her treacherous landing characteristics, safely back on the ground along with the often-priceless intelligence-gathering sensors. Although the pilots were the pointy end of the spear, this is also the story of the missions that could not be accomplished without the dedicated effort from enlisted personnel and civilian company tech reps to keep the maintenance-intensive platform in the air. Along with Physiological Support Division personnel, responsible for keeping the pilot alive in their pressure suit environment during emergency situations, as well as numerous other support troops required for logistical and supply support, the unparallel success of Det 2 can only be attributed to the professional pride of the close-knit selectively manned brotherhood known as the Black Cats of Osan.
Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1636243541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The story of the top-secret “Black Cats” who undertook dangerous long-duration high-altitude missions to provide intelligence on North Korea during the Cold War. Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth’s atmosphere, the U-2’s extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly classified ground site, located at Osan Air Base, Korea. From there, the top-secret intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products are distributed to the highest levels of command authority within the United States. Although the Dragon Lady has been in continuous service for nearly 70 years, she has always been considered a “National Asset,” with technology so sophisticated that she outlasted her “replacement”—the SR-71—decades ago. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Rick Bishop, a former U-2 pilot, takes the reader deep into the Black World of non-satellite ISR to reveal how a small detachment of 100 hand-selected personnel with only eight pilots and two aircraft became the most reliable and productive air force unit to ever utilize the Dragon Lady during the Cold War and to this day. As second-in-command of Detachment 2 (Det 2) of the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing during the mid-1980s, Rick kept a detailed journal of the daily operations that routinely launched pilots on high-altitude solo missions lasting at least nine hours. Wearing full-pressure suits similar to those utilized by the Shuttle astronauts, these missions took a physiological toll on each pilot who upon return had to coax the Lady, universally known for her treacherous landing characteristics, safely back on the ground along with the often-priceless intelligence-gathering sensors. Although the pilots were the pointy end of the spear, this is also the story of the missions that could not be accomplished without the dedicated effort from enlisted personnel and civilian company tech reps to keep the maintenance-intensive platform in the air. Along with Physiological Support Division personnel, responsible for keeping the pilot alive in their pressure suit environment during emergency situations, as well as numerous other support troops required for logistical and supply support, the unparallel success of Det 2 can only be attributed to the professional pride of the close-knit selectively manned brotherhood known as the Black Cats of Osan.
The Black Cats Brotherhood
Author: Lucian Amarii
Publisher: Jup
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
During the Dark Ages of Inquisiton, black cats were merciless hunt down by extremist clerics, accused (mostly unfairly) of assisting, in their occult practices, the witches. Then it was founded, it seems, "Black Cats Brotherhood”, a secret organization with only one purpose: fight for survival by any means! SuperCostel and the Black Cats Brotherhood is the second volume of the SuperCostel series, and it has been released in may 2010. It has 40 black&white pages, A4 format, with full-color covers. In this episode, Costel and his friends (Arnold si Serioja) are dealing with a black cats secret organisation. "One of the most fascinating stories about cats, wrote by a man who has spend a few decades studying their behaviour." - Fake Magazine
Publisher: Jup
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
During the Dark Ages of Inquisiton, black cats were merciless hunt down by extremist clerics, accused (mostly unfairly) of assisting, in their occult practices, the witches. Then it was founded, it seems, "Black Cats Brotherhood”, a secret organization with only one purpose: fight for survival by any means! SuperCostel and the Black Cats Brotherhood is the second volume of the SuperCostel series, and it has been released in may 2010. It has 40 black&white pages, A4 format, with full-color covers. In this episode, Costel and his friends (Arnold si Serioja) are dealing with a black cats secret organisation. "One of the most fascinating stories about cats, wrote by a man who has spend a few decades studying their behaviour." - Fake Magazine
Black Cats Fly
Author: Bob Wyatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958697774
Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780958697774
Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Black Cat
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
The Black Cats and the Tinker's Wife
Author: Margaret Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black cats
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black cats
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Black Cats
Author: C.M. Johnson
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 1684441994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Each Origins: Urban Legends: Superstitions eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Urban Legends: Superstitions title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Urban Legends: Superstitions eShorts include Black Cats, Broken Mirrors, Knock on Wood, and Friday the 13th.
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 1684441994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Each Origins: Urban Legends: Superstitions eShort is a single chapter from the full Origins: Urban Legends: Superstitions title, packaged as a mini eBook. Origins: Urban Legends: Superstitions eShorts include Black Cats, Broken Mirrors, Knock on Wood, and Friday the 13th.
The Black Cat Book
Author: Walter Copeland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Summer of the Black Cats
Author: Leslie Brumfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780759612587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780759612587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Black Cats and Broken Mirrors
Author: Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780886777883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
From dark felines crossing your path to shattered looking glasses, "Black Cats and Broken Mirrors" dares to ask the question: "What if some of those long-treasured superstitions are actually true?" Join Jane Yolen, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Michelle West, Charles de Lint, Nancy Springer, Peter Crowther, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Esther Friesner, and more as they explore the lighter and darker sides of our fears in this original anthology featuring stories ranging from urban fantasy and magical realism to horror!
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780886777883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
From dark felines crossing your path to shattered looking glasses, "Black Cats and Broken Mirrors" dares to ask the question: "What if some of those long-treasured superstitions are actually true?" Join Jane Yolen, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Michelle West, Charles de Lint, Nancy Springer, Peter Crowther, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Esther Friesner, and more as they explore the lighter and darker sides of our fears in this original anthology featuring stories ranging from urban fantasy and magical realism to horror!