If you are going to read one book on the SR71, this is the one that is pretty easy to read. It's spotted with technical detail, which the author often explains. That can be difficult for some readers. Most of the book is about the flyers and their anecdotes; not about the specific reconnaissance objectives. That's pretty exciting stuff. Although, I was surprised that the author often talked about specific operational areas. The declassification must have been quite a bureaucratic tangle. The demise of the program was overseen by two of the fighter mafia, including "Misty" and "Skeletor."...the SR-71 was a bill payer for other systems and the staff fell in line...a painful thing for the SR-71 "program." Nice book Rich. ( )

Signed by Frank Stampf (Chapter 12)