Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Jane's All the World's Aircraft
Author: Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2009-2010
Author: Kenneth MunsonPublisher: Ihs Global Incorporated
ISBN: 9780710628800
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This unparalleled reference provides readers with independent cataloguing of all known powered aircraft under development or in production worldwide.
Jane's American Fighting Aircraft of the 20th Century
Author: Michael John Haddrick TaylorPublisher: Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780792456278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A guide to aircraft used by the American Air Force during this century. Entries are arranged alphabetically by manufacturer. Includes over 1,000 photographs, diagrams, and plans.
Jane's Fighting Ships 2009-2010
Author: Stephen SaundersPublisher: Ihs Global Incorporated
ISBN: 9780710628886
Category : Navies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jane's Fighting Ships is your essential reference to the world's navies. Country by country, you will find authoritative commentaries for each ship, complete with comprehensive details of: displacement and dimensions, main machinery, speed and range, weapons systems, construction and modernisation programmes, latest operational status and strength of fleet including sales to other navies.
American Attack Aircraft Since 1926
Author: E.R. JohnsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786451890
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This book provides a concise historical survey of the various types of aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps, Army Air Forces, and Air Force, and the Navy and Marine Corps to accomplish air attack missions since 1926. The text covers four types of fixed-wing aircraft: designated attack aircraft; light, medium, and tactical bombers; fighter-bombers; and adapted attack aircraft. Reports on individual aircraft types include the aircraft's original military requirements, production history, and operational record, usually accompanied by photographs, illustrations, and technical specifications. Four appendices detail aircraft designations and nomenclature used throughout the military, the organizational structure of various military air units, aircraft designs that never made it into official service, and the evolution of attack aircraft weapons and tactics.
JANES ALL THE WORLD'S AIRCRAFT
Author: Flying Fury
Author: James McCuddenPublisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 193514975X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The day-to-day insights of a brilliantly daring World War I ace that only ends with his death at the age of 23 . . . James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and, ultimately, an untimely end. Here, in this unique and gripping firsthand account, he brings to life some of aviation history’s most dramatic episodes in a memoir completed at the age of twenty-three, just days before his tragic death. During his time in France with the Royal Flying Corps from 1914 to 1918, McCudden rose from mechanic to pilot and flight commander. Following his first kill in September 1916, McCudden shot down a total of fifty-seven enemy planes, including a remarkable three in a single minute in January 1918. A dashing patrol leader, he combined courage, loyalty, and judgment, studying the habits and psychology of enemy pilots and stalking them with patience and tenacity. Written with modesty and frankness, yet acutely perceptive, Flying Fury is both a valuable insight into the world of early aviation and a powerful account of courage and survival above the mud and trenches of Flanders. Fighter ace James McCudden died in July 1918, after engine failure caused his plane to crash just four months before the end of World War I. His success as one of Britain’s deadliest pilots earned him the Victoria Cross.
People's Liberation Army Navy
Author: James C BussertPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612510329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
There are a few books on all naval weapon systems for all nations in the world. These are limited in many Chinese technologies, with not a single entry on several important areas such as communications, weapon integration/ control and sonars. There are other excellent books on PLAN organization, high level assumed goals and political structure, but little on actual ship combat system details except possibly in limited areas. This book traces, in detail, the long path from a coastal defense force of obsolete ships and crude systems to the current complex unique new construction coastal missile catamarans and AEGIS-like large DDGs with indigenous Vertical launch weapons and long range cruise missiles. In war gaming or operational tactics, many tables with frequencies, loadouts and ranges are useful, especially if unclassified. With this book, all of these platforms and systems are in one source. The book is divided into sections on frigates, destroyers, missile destroyers, patrol craft, naval aircraft and helicopters, nuclear and diesel submarines. Antisubmarine, anti-air, antisurface and mine warfare, amphibs and auxuiliaries are in their own areas. Even state-owned paramilitary vessels are covered. Hull, machinery and electrical and deperming are also addressed. This book prompts the reader to discern PLAN areas of weakness as well as threats based upon the sum of tables, rather than merely accept an author’s conclusions. The enigmatic PLAN aircraft carrier preparations in pilots, shipyard and battle group basing will be noted. The only fact pending is when the keels will be laid in Shanghai and the actual tonnage.
Ready for Takeoff
Author: Roger CliffPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 083305208X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
An assessment of China's aerospace manufacturing capabilities and how China's participation in commercial markets and supply chains contributes to their improvement. It examines China's aviation and space manufacturing capabilities, government efforts to encourage foreign participation, transfers of foreign technology to China, the extent to which U.S. and foreign aerospace firms depend on supplies from China, and their implications for U.S. security interests.
Civil Aircraft
Author: Jim WinchesterPublisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836869033
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes various aircrafts, from enormous planes that carry hundreds of passengers to personal planes.