U.S. Army Aircraft Since 1947
Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Specialty PressPub & Wholesalers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780933424531
Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Specialty PressPub & Wholesalers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780933424531
Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 9781853101021
Rigt illustreret gennemgang af luftfartøjer i Den amerikanske Hær.
Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780764301902
This is the only comprehensive guide to the 124 aircraft and experimental flying machines used by the United States Army since 1947. The definitive reference source on its subject.
Author : Robert Earl McClendon
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1954
Category :
ISBN :
Author : James Charles Fahey
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN :
Author : James Charles Fahey
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN :
Author : James Charles Fahey
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Lee McFarland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 17,78 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 : Howard K. Butler
Publisher :
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN :
Author : E.R. Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 20,30 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.