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Summary: Traces the development of Air Force aviation by examining specific types of fighter planes.
Author : George Sullivan
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780396086208
Summary: Traces the development of Air Force aviation by examining specific types of fighter planes.
Author : George Sullivan
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399612534
Traces the development of Air Force aviation by examining specific types of fighter planes.
Author : George Sullivan
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780396086215
A history of the bombers used by the Air Force through the years with descriptions of the various kinds.
Author : David Coxe Cooke
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780448214108
Describes the performance characteristics and armament details of fighter planes used by the U.S. Air Force from World War I to the present day.
Author : David West
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404214550
Sketches featuring three famous fighter pilots presented in graphic novel format accompany information about the history of fighter planes and requirements for the job of fighter pilot.
Author : Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fighter planes
ISBN : 9781580071116
Experimental and Prototype U.S. Air Force Jet Fighters examines the development of fighter airframes and engines since the end of World War II. The book covers each design that reached the hardware development stage and received an XF or YF designation from the Air Force. Sometimes the airframe/engine combination worked, as it did in the North American F-86 Sabre. Other times, technology failed, as it did in the Convair XP-92 ducted-rocket interceptor. In addition to the changing aerodynamic technologies, the evolution of offensive weapons for each evolution of fighter is also reviewed. Much of the data used in the book came from previously classified Air Force program documents. Dozens of never-before-seen photos highlight this review of Air Force fighter aircraft.
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN : 1428990488
In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Author : Carrie A. Braulick
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736854672
Provides an overview of the design, uses, weapons, and equipment of U.S. Air Force fighter planes.
Author : Stephen Lee McFarland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Author : Bruce Gordon
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491846046
SCRAMBLE! In a couple of minutes my wingman and I would be airborne on another adventure. Sometimes we intercepted an airliner, sometimes a misplaced B-52 bomber, and sometimes Russian bombers probing our defenses; Russian warships; MIG fighters; or troops in contact in Vietnam, calling for napalm only yards from their positions. Twice it was UFOs - Unidentified Flying Objects! This book is a series of short stories, supported by more than 90 photographs. The first part has my own stories; later stories were contributed by my fellow pilots. The last story is from WW II of our P-38 fighters attacking the Romanian oil fields and getting badly mauled by defending Romanian fighters - and a Romanian pilot's view of the battle! Only the spirit of attack borne in a brave heart will bring success to any fighter aircraft, to matter how highly developed the aircraft may be. That quote from Adolf Galland, an Ace of the German Luftwaffe in WW II, was the motto of our 317th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Alaska. The fighter pilot is a hunter, and his quarry is the most dangerous in the world - men who want to kill him! The best defense is a good offense - ATTACK! The US Air Force had a program called Every Man a Tiger. A tiger does not kill impulsively or in anger, but plans his attack carefully and strikes with cool ferocity. We were tigers! Fighter pilots tell stories around the bar, but they seldom write them down. These stories were written by the fighter pilots themselves! Come with me and hear of the beauty of flight, the mortal danger of electrical power failure at night in a snowstorm, and the thrill of attack with 20mm cannons firing right under your feet!