- Graham, Richard H. SR-71 Revealed. Osceola, WI:
Motorbooks International, 1996. ISBN 0-7603-0122-0.
- The author, who piloted SR-71's for seven years and
later commanded the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, provides a
view from the cockpit, including descriptions of long-classified
operational missions. There's relatively little discussion
of the plane's development history, engineering details, or
sensors; if that's what you're looking for, Dennis Jenkins' Lockheed SR-71/YF-12 Blackbirds
may be more to your liking. Colonel Graham is inordinately fond of
the word “unique”, so much so that each time he uses it he places it
in quotes as I have (correctly) done here.
July 2003 