Author : Cal Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Douglas airplanes
ISBN : 9780977676200
A comprehensive history of the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster transport aircraft: historical, political, technical, military and human. Profusely illustrated.
Author : United States. Air Force
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Airplanes, Military
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
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Author : United States. Air Force
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Airplanes, Military
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Author : Robert C. Owen
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1597978523
Global air mobility is an American invention. During the twentieth century, other nations developed capabilities to transport supplies and personnel by air to support deployed military forces. But only the United States mustered the resources and will to create a global transport force and aerial refueling aircraft capable of moving air and ground combat forces of all types to anywhere in the world and supporting them in continuous combat operations. Whether contemplating a bomber campaign or halting another surprise attack, American war planners have depended on transport and tanker aircraft.
Author : James Haun
Publisher : Col. James R. Haun
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0979000246
E-Book Edition of SPITFIRE WINGMAN FROM TENNESSEE, which is the autobiography of a self-taught aviator who flew virtually every military aircraft (except jets) during the years 1939 to 1960. Col. Jim Haun, 1911-2001, with unusual honesty and wit, allows a "back door glimpse" into the USAF at the highest levels of command, including the Presidential Air Fleet in Washington, D.C. He flew fighters in WWII, transports in India, the Berlin Airlift, Japan and the Far East - eventually becoming Chief Pilot of the Military Air Transport Service. After retirement he built a stunt biplance in his garage and wowed audiences with "death-defying" performances. Col. Haun concurrently taught hundreds to fly, many later becoming airline captains and one, even became an instructor in the supersonic Blackbird.
Author : Lou Martin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412092299
A pilot's true story of near-death experiences during sixty years of military and civilian flying, plus encounters, some fatal, with aviation colleagues. With 540 pages and more than 80 illustrations.
Author : E.R. Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0786462698
Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill. Since World War II--beginning with the Cold War and continuing up to the present day--the U.S. armed forces have come increasingly to rely upon airlift for mobility. The power to rapidly move and thereafter support a military operation--anywhere in the world, at any time--has become a foundational element of American defense policy. This work provides the reader with a comprehensive historical survey--including technical specifications, drawings, and photographs--of each type of fixed-wing aircraft used by U.S. military forces over a nearly 90-year period to carry out the airlift mission.
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : William Patrick Dean
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1476630151
In 1962, a unique transport aircraft was built from the parts of 27 Boeing B-377 airliners to provide NASA a means of transporting rocket boosters. With an interior the size of a gymnasium, "The Pregnant Guppy" was the first of six enormous cargo planes built by Aero Spacelines and two built by Union de Transport Aeriens. More than half a century later, the last Super Guppy is still in active service with NASA and the design concept has been applied to next-generation transports. This comprehensive history of expanded fuselage aircraft begins in the 1940s with the military's need for a long-range transport. The author examines the development of competing designs by Boeing, Convair and Douglas, and the many challenges and catastrophic failures. Behind-the-scenes maneuvers of financiers, corporate raiders, mobsters and other nefarious characters provide an inside look at aviation development from the drawing board to the scrap yard.
