World's fastest single-engine jet aircraft : the story of Convair's F-106 Delta Dart Interceptor / Doug Barbier, LtCol., USAF (Ret.)

Object Details

author

Barbier, Douglas 1951-

Includes index.

NASM copy 39088019675669 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.

Contents

Birth of the F-102B -- Early development -- Flight testing the new interceptor -- The F-106 aircraft -- MA-1 and age -- Weapons for the six -- Continued flight & weapons testing -- Proposed F-106 variants -- Into squadron service -- failures and fixes -- Ejection seats for the six -- Early projects -- The Cuban crisis & alert -- Interceptor improvement programs -- Mobility and deployments begin -- World wide deployment for the six -- The six gets a gun -- F-106 squadrons -- 1959 conversions -- F-106 squadrons -- 1960 conversions -- Later units -- Tyndall and the F-106 -- Exercises and competitions -- Final duty and NASA -- A warrior's death -- Appendices -- F-106 contracts -- F-106 model numbers and differences -- The first 50 'sixes -- Prototype test aircraft assignments -- F-106 survivors

2017

Type

Books

History

Physical description

227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Title

Story of Convair's F-106 Delta Dart

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Delta Dart (Jet fighter plane)--History

Record ID

siris_sil_1089631

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0