By Brian Shul

No plane ever captured the interest & fascination of the general public just like the SR-71 Blackbird. Nicknamed "The Sled" by way of these few who flew it, the airplane was once shrouded in secrecy from its inception. coming into the U.S. Air strength stock in 1966, the SR-71 was once the quickest, optimum flying jet airplane on the planet. Now for the 1st time, a Blackbird pilot stocks his special adventure of what it used to be prefer to fly this legend of aviation historical past. throughout the phrases & images of retired significant Brian Shul, we input the realm of the "Sled Driver." significant Shul offers us perception on all levels of flying, together with the humbling event of simulator education, the physiological stresses of donning an area go well with for lengthy hours, & the depth & magic of flying 80,000 toes above the Earth's floor at 2000 miles in keeping with hour. "Sled Driver" takes the reader via riveting debts of the trials of preliminary education, the gamut of feelings skilled whereas flying over opposed territory, & the sheer pleasure of exhibiting the jet at many of the world's biggest airshows. Illustrated with infrequent images, visible the following for the 1st time, "Sled Driver" captures the mystique & beauty of this most original of all plane.

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For a review of the aid program in South Vietnam, see John D. Montgomery, Tire Politics of Foreign Aid (New York : Frederick A . Praeger, 1962), pp. 224- 32. 16 The French Legacy in Indochina, 1945- 1960 cast statio ns throughout South Vietnam . S. Info rmatio n Service was already broadcasting the Voice·of America to North Vietnam fro m its station in the Philippines, the American ambassador deferred building a high-powered transmitter for broadcasting to North Vietnam until after the domestic network was completed .

Map 1) Some $27 million was to come fro m a State Department-administered Asian Economic Develo pment Fund and $3 million fro m the Department of Defense . The Internatio nal Cooperation Administration, the age ncy that operated foreign assistance programs for the State Department, was to oversee the installation of the project. Unacquainted with communications requirements or the env ironment in Southeast Asia, the International Cooperatio n Administration negotiated a contrac t based on a vag ue pro posal with two American co mpanies, Page Communications Engineers and Hyco n Eastern Company, to do an eng ineering survey for the regional system .

S. Army, Pacific, General Isaac D. White, asked the Army's Chief of Staff, General George H . Decker, to assign a signal company to the Pacific to install communications for a task force headquarters in Southeast Asia should SEATO operatio ns plans be invoked . General Decker responded that a strictl y enforced ceiling o n the size of the Army and commitment of the strategic reserve to other areas of the world ruled o ut even such a small reinforcement in the Pacific. In the canon of world wide American strategic prio rities South Vietnam seemed destined to remain a minor front of the Cold WaL ' Early Contingency Plans merican military assistance in Southeast Asia began at a time when the A United States was preoccupied w ith a conventio nal war in Korea and was resisting the Communists by French proxy in Indochina.

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