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by Scott McGaugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
No city is as proud of its military heritage as San Diego, known as "Navy Town, USA." Congress also has designated San Diego as "the Birthplace of Naval Aviation." However, its community fabric reflects a more diverse and tightly woven relationship with our nation's defense. Over the past century, the...
Race for Hitler's X-Planes
Britain's 1945 Mission to Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
An account of the race for secret Nazi aviation technology at the end of World War IIDuring World War II, Hitler's engineers had pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, to the deadly V2 intercontinental ballistic missile. With...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A group of Internet aviation fans once debated the subject of the worst fighter of World War II. Their hands-down favorite: the Brewster Buffalo. Two books are titled The World's Worst Aircraft. The Buffalo is the only fighter from any era to have a chapter in both of them.
The Royal Air Force...
by Jaroslaw Skora
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
PZL P.11 was a basic type of fighter for Polish aviation equipment during the German invasion in September 1939. The aircraft was designed in 1931 by Eng. Zygmunt Pulawski. The publication includes the history of origins and development of fighter design from P.1 to P.24. A detailed technical description...
Phantom in the Cold War
RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reconnaissance and air defense roles. Later, with the arrival of the Jaguar in the early 1970s, it changed over to air defense. In its heyday, it served as...
Airman's Odyssey
Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, and Flight to Arras
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Three award-winning works of adventure, survival, and the early days of aviation from the celebrated author of The Little Prince, collected in one volume.
Ranging from the northern skies of France to the South American Andes, this volume includes two memoirs and a novel, each informed by the...
Fast Jets and Other Beasts
Personal Insights from the Cockpit of the Hunter, Phantom, Jaguar, Tornado and Many More
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2017
Over a thirty-two-year military flying career which spanned a period when the RAF regularly replaced its fighter/bombers, Ian Hall had seven front-line flying tours on five different types. His story starts in Bahrain in the early 1970s, just before the massive contraction that saw the RAF withdraw...
A Goldstar Century
31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for a Squadron engaged at the forefront of military activity for the past 100 years. With a number of events lined up to celebrate this important anniversary, former Commanding Officer of the Squadron, Ian Hall, has set...
The Lafayette Escadrille
A Photo History of the First American Fighter Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I. One hundred years later, it is still arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to take to the skies. In this work the entire history of these gallant volunteers—who named themselves after...
Pegasus, The Heart of the Harrier
The History and Development of the World's First Operational Vertical Take-off and Landing Jet Engine
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The conception of the Pegasus engine in 1957 upset all the conventions of aircraft design. It was previously usual for aircraft designers to seek a suitable engine, but this was an engine that sought an aircraft. The aircraft that
resulted was the famous Harrier that is still in front-line service...
by Joseph E. Salvatore M.D., Joan Berkey
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Commissioned on April 1, 1943, Naval Air Station Wildwood trained thousands of U.S. Navy airmen during World War II. Located in southern New Jersey on a peninsula bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay, the air station was perfectly sited to provide them with the over-water practice they needed...
by Kimberly A. Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Canton boasts a rich aviation heritage, reaching back to the earliest pioneers of flight. Local resident Frank S. Lahm founded the Aero Club of Ohio here and his son Frank P. Lahm worked with the Wright brothers on some of their earliest test flights. William Martin�s monoplane, the first single-wing...
by Lynn M. Homan, Thomas Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Florida�s contribution to aviation history cannot be underestimated. Wings over Florida chronicles the story of flying in the �Sunshine State,� from the early pioneers in gliders and balloons, to the recent developments in the space program. The story of Florida in flight is even older than...
Human Interference
An Out of Control Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The new air traffic control system is implemented throughout the United States reducing fifteen thousand air traffic controllers to mere monitors. While technology was at work replacing the radar controllers, deep inside the system things were not adding up. Just like a sleeper cell awakens to rain...