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Author: Geoffrey Patrick Jones Publisher: Crowood Press (UK) ISBN: 9781840372960 Category : Antique and classic aircraft Languages : en Pages : 0
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Take a journey through time and through the camera lens. This book is packed full of emotive colour shots of many classic American aeroplanes designed and built between 1916 and 1982. From the Curtiss Jenny to the Cessna Skywagon, you will meet such delights as the Beech Staggerwing, the Grumman Goose, the Stearman PT-17 and the Lockheed Constellation. Thirty-seven different types are included and amazingly they are still flying -- and that's where most are photographed, in their natural element -- the air.
Author: Geoffrey Patrick Jones Publisher: Crowood Press (UK) ISBN: 9781840372960 Category : Antique and classic aircraft Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Take a journey through time and through the camera lens. This book is packed full of emotive colour shots of many classic American aeroplanes designed and built between 1916 and 1982. From the Curtiss Jenny to the Cessna Skywagon, you will meet such delights as the Beech Staggerwing, the Grumman Goose, the Stearman PT-17 and the Lockheed Constellation. Thirty-seven different types are included and amazingly they are still flying -- and that's where most are photographed, in their natural element -- the air.
Author: Gary Valant Publisher: Zenith Press ISBN: 0760312087 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
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The unique art that graced military aircraft in World War II and the Korean War. Applied by amateurs or professional artists like Vargas, the art typically featured alluring women whose charms belied the deadly cargo the crew hoped to deliver to its targets. Hundreds of examples are shown in a combination of archival photos from the wars and current photos of artwork in museum collections.
Author: Martin W. Bowman Publisher: Smithmark Publishers ISBN: 9780831782979 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 152
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America produced over 200,000 B-17 Flying Fortresses, B-24 Liberators, and B-29 Super Fortresses. Out of this massive total, only one B-24 remains today. Thunder in the Heavens is a photographic tribute to the "Big Friends," the bombers, the "Little Friends," their fighter escort, "Low and Below" the ground support aircraft, and the planes that flew off of the aircraft carriers.
Author: James K. Libbey Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN: 1612341799 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 381
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Today, air power is a vital component of the U.S. armed forces. James Libbey, in Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power, highlights the contributions of an aviation pioneer who made much of it possible. Graduating from the Imperial Russian Naval Academy at the start of World War I, de Seversky lost a leg in his first combat mission. He still shot down thirteen German planes and became the empire's most decorated combat naval pilot. While serving as a naval attache in the United States in 1918, de Seversky elected to escape the Bolshevik Revolution and offered his services as a pilot and consulting engineer to the U.S. War Department. He proved inventive both in the technology of advanced military aircraft and in the strategy of exercising air power. He worked for famed aviation advocate Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, who encouraged the naturalized citizen to patent his inventions, such as an in-flight refueling system and a gyroscopically synchronized bombsight. His creative spirit then spurred him to design and manufacture advanced military aircraft. When World War II broke out in Europe, de Seversky became America's best-known philosopher, prophet, and advocate for air power, even serving as an adviser to the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. The highlight of his life occurred in 1970 when the Aviation Hall of Fame enshrined de Seversky for "his achievements as a pilot, aeronautical engineer, inventor, industrialist, author, strategist, consultant, and scientific advances in aircraft design and aerospace technology." This book will appeal to readers with a special interest in military history and to anyone who wants to learn more about American air power's most important figures.
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