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Baling Out
Amazing Dramas of Military Flying
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
To bale out of a stricken airplane is a pilot's or aircrew's final chance to escape death. It is a traumatic and hazardous exercise that is only practiced in extremis and is in itself full of danger with no guarantee of survival. Many struggled free of a flaming and spinning aircraft only to see their...
by Wojtek Matusiak
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Of all Allied airmen, Polish pilots had had the most experience of fighting the Luftwaffe by the time the war came to Britain. As the Battle of Britain raged, they quickly proved themselves as highly aggressive and skilful interceptors, especially when flying the famous Spitfire. The Polish Air Force...
by Chris Bucholtz
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The 357th Fighter Group produced 42 aces, more than any other group within the USAAF. It was also the first group in the Eighth Air Force to be equipped with the P-51. Thanks to this fighter and the talented pilots assigned to the group (men such as Bud Anderson, Kit Carson, John England and Chuck...
by Joshua Stoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Constructed closer to Manhattan than the commercially unsuccessful Floyd Bennett Field, LaGuardia Airport was conceived in the mid-1930s as New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized the need for a great airport for one of the world�s great cities. Originally known as New York Municipal Airport,...
by Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Lockheed P-38J Lightning aircraft was revolutionary, extremely innovative, thanks to double-girder fuselage, the two Allison V-engines with turbochargers within the tail beams and landing gear in tricycle.
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a single-engine fighter produced by the US to low-wing Bell...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to feature a full-length flight deck was in service....
Deep Sea Hunters
RAF Coastal Command and the War Against the U-Boats and the German Navy 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This enthralling new release from Martin Bowman details all the varied and dynamic operations at sea carried out by RAF Coastal Command against the U-boats and the German Navy during the Second World War. Beginning with the disastrous Norwegian Campaign, it takes in the numerous attacks on the bustling...
Handley Page Victor - Volume 2
The Mark 2 and Comprehensive Appendices and Accident Analysis for all Marks.
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
The first volume of Roger Brooks’ detailed reference to the Victor covers the conception, design and test-flying of the prototype HP 80 and then the production and operation of the Mark 1 in its many roles. This second volume completes the history of the aircraft by describing the improved Mark...
Nebraska Warbird Survivors 2002
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
The purpose of this handbook is to provide aviation enthusiasts with a simple checklist on where to find the surviving retired military aircraft that are preserved in the state of Nebraska. The majority of the Nebraska Warbird Survivors found in this book can be viewed at the Strategic Air and Space...
Florida Warbird Survivors 2002
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2001
The purpose of this handbook is to provide aviation enthusiasts with a simple checklist on where to find the surviving retired military aircraft that are preserved in the state of Florida. The museum staffs and volunteer organizations in Florida have done a particularly good job of preserving the...
Hawaii Warbird Survivors 2002
A Handbook on Where to Find Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
The purpose of this handbook is to provide aviation enthusiasts with a simple checklist on where to find the surviving retired military aircraft that are preserved in the state of Hawaii. The majority of the Hawaii Warbird Survivors are on display outdoors as gate guardians at Hickam, Wheeler and...
by James Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Liberalization of regulatory policy on international air transportation through the use of bilateral and multilateral open skies agreements contributes to a business environment that presents air carriers with the opportunity to take advantage of greater access to aviation markets world-wide. Chapters...
Skua!
The Royal Navy’s Dive-Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy’s desire for a carrier-based dive-bomber and RAF’s preference for a fighter. Despite being the first to shoot down a Luftwaffe...
1919
Learning to Fly in a “Jenny” Just Like Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Edward O. Southard learned to fly the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny at March Field in Riverside, California, in 1919. About eighteen months earlier, William Muir Russel was honing his pilot skills at Ashburn Field and then Rantoul Aviation Field, both in Illinois. But thats where the differences in their early...