A girl's guide to missiles :
Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-
A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert / Karen Piper. - x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322).
Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons.
The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were the Piper family. Her dad designed the Sidewinder. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, set off down a Los Angeles freeway, and even stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper's memoir also reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe.--
Text in English.
9780399564543 0399564543
2018025068
Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-
Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005
Piper, Mary Dahlstrom
Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)--Employees--Biography.
United States. Office of Strategic Services --Biography.
Guided missiles--History--United States--Anecdotes.
Electronic technicians--United States--Biography.
Young women--West (U.S.)--Biography.
Cold War
California, Southern--Social life and customs--20th century.
VF373 / .P57 2018
358.1/7092 B
A girl's guide to missiles : growing up in America's secret desert / Karen Piper. - x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322).
Becoming China Lakers -- A teenage weaponeer -- Dynamic instability -- The Cold War at home -- Anything can be a weapon -- Off target -- Life without weapons.
The China Lake missile range in the Mojave Desert was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were the Piper family. Her dad designed the Sidewinder. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, set off down a Los Angeles freeway, and even stopped off at the mall, leaving the missile in the parking lot. Piper's memoir also reaches back to her father's World War II flights with contraband across Europe.--
Text in English.
9780399564543 0399564543
2018025068
Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-
Piper, Earl Marwin, 1922-2005
Piper, Mary Dahlstrom
Naval Ordnance Test Station (China Lake, Calif.)--Employees--Biography.
United States. Office of Strategic Services --Biography.
Guided missiles--History--United States--Anecdotes.
Electronic technicians--United States--Biography.
Young women--West (U.S.)--Biography.
Cold War
California, Southern--Social life and customs--20th century.
VF373 / .P57 2018
358.1/7092 B