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Book Synopsis F-18 Navy Air Combat Fighter by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book F-18 Navy Air Combat Fighter written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hornet written by Orr Kelly and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of the controversial development and deployment of the supersonic fighter jet that changed aerial warfare forever The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet was born in 1978, a state-of-the-art supersonic fighter and attack aircraft with a top speed of Mach 1.8, more than one thousand miles per hour. It was versatile, fast, and reliable, and no war machine in the air could match it. The marines adopted it first, followed by the navy, impressed by its incomparable ability to engage in close aerial combat while at the same time efficiently delivering explosive payloads to designated enemy targets. It became the aircraft of choice for the US Navy’s famous Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron in 1986 and served ably in combat from its first mission—America’s launched air strike against Libya that same year—through 1991’s Operation Desert Storm and well beyond. Yet the Hornet has always been shrouded in controversy, and while still in its planning stages, it sparked an unprecedented political battle that nearly doomed the miraculous machine before it could take flight. Orr Kelly, the acclaimed military author who has notably chronicled the remarkable histories of the US Navy SEALs and other branches of America’s Special Forces, tells the fascinating true story of the F/A-18 Hornet—how it came to be, how it almost wasn’t, and how it forever altered the way our nation’s wars are fought.
Book Synopsis The Air Forces Book of the F/A-18 Hornet by : Tim Senior
Download or read book The Air Forces Book of the F/A-18 Hornet written by Tim Senior and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The F/A-18 Hornet has been in service over 20 years and has developed into and effective multi-role combat aircraft. With its array of weapon options the Hornet is capable of engaging targets on land, sea, and in the air and its ability to "swing-role" from one target type to another is impressive. The aircraft is in service with a number of air arms worldwide in both carrier-based and land-based variants.
Book Synopsis The Pentagon Paradox by : James Perry Stevenson
Download or read book The Pentagon Paradox written by James Perry Stevenson and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the U.S. Navy avoid Congress's explicit direction to "navalize" the winning design in a flyoff competition - by lying to Congress with the argument that the winner was not carrier capable - and then develop the losing aircraft into an even worse fighter for its carrier squadrons? To find the answer James Stevenson, an experienced aviation writer, dug through government files and interviewed key players to present this hard-hitting, behind-the-scenes account of the development of one of the Navy's current front-line aircraft. His investigation exposes the politics of Pentagon weapons procurement, a process that pits service against service, the military against Congress, admirals against generals, pilots against engineers, hard liners against reformers. This book provides a developmental history of the F-18 Hornet from drawing board to its results in Desert Storm. It is the story of a multi-billion-dollar aircraft-design war between those military officers who insist that America's interests will be protected best by sophisticated aircraft, even if America can afford fewer of them, and a group known as the "Fighter Mafia", who claim that larger numbers have always won in warfare and that for equal dollars America can only produce greater numbers if each one is less sophisticated. He shows that by picking the YF-17 - and renaming the F-17 as the F-18 - over the clearly superior YF-16, the Navy antagonized the Air Force, Congress, and its own F-14 community, and sparked a major legal battle. Undeterred, the Navy took the light, cheap YF-17 and loaded it with technology and weight, which produced an F-18 that has less maneuverability, less acceleration, a range no better than the1952-vintage A-4, and costs almost three times as much as the F-16. From its first flight in 1978, the F-18 performance continued to degrade. Nevertheless, in 1992 the Navy asked for additional money to modify the F-18 as the F-18E/F. This request was in reality funding for a brand-new aircraft, which Stevenson calls the F-19, designed to get back to the original requirements and help bail out the financially troubled McDonnell Douglas. In this highly readable study, Stevenson takes the reader into the Pentagon's corridors of power, where test results are distorted, history rewritten, and requirements changed to match aircraft performance, and the public's trust and treasure squandered. Fascinating yet sobering, The Pentagon Paradox will appeal to everyone interested in the military establishment, the future of U.S. forces, and how tax dollars are spent.
Book Synopsis The F/A-18 Hornet by : David Seidman
Download or read book The F/A-18 Hornet written by David Seidman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the F/A-18C Hornet jet fighter plane and its use in various missions in battle, from the Vietnamese Conflict to the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
Book Synopsis McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet by : Steve Davies
Download or read book McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet written by Steve Davies and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US-designed and built McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is one of the most important Fourth Generation fighters in the world. Its twin-engine, twin-tails (canted outwards), and leading edge root extensions make it one of the most recognizable fighters in operation. The latest version is the enlarged Super Hornet. It was controversial in being chosen as the replacement for the much loved F-14 Tomcat, but the truth is that it is a potent and fearsome fighter that boasts one of the most capable radars in service and a weapons loadout that takes full advantage of it. The Super Hornet currently performs the bulk of the Western world's airstrikes on the nefarious terrorist group 'ISIS' in Iraq and Syria. Developed initially by Northrop as the P-530 Cobra in response to the US Air Force's Light Weight Fighter competition (winner: the General Dynamics F-16), the Hornet had a troubled start in life. Designated the YF-17 for the LWF fly-off in 1974, it failed to impress the Air Force. However, contractor McDonnell Douglas stepped in confident that it could be improved sufficiently to make it a contender for the US Navy's new fighter competition. McAir, as was often the case, were right. Re-designed and re-designated the F/A-18 (fighter/attack), it won the competition and entered service with the US Navy as a carrier-borne, multi-role fighter, marking the beginning of the Hornet's journey from Air Force 'reject' to 'king' of the US Navy's Fleet Defenders
Download or read book Jet Girl written by Caroline Johnson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, unique insider’s view of what it’s like to be a woman aviator in today’s US Navy—from pedicures to parachutes, friendship to firefights. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, and yet she went on to become an F/A-18 Super Hornet Weapons System Officer. She was one of the first women to fly a combat mission over Iraq since 2011, and one of the first women to drop bombs on ISIS. Jet Girl tells the remarkable story of the women fighting at the forefront in a military system that allows them to reach the highest peaks, and yet is in many respects still a fraternity. Johnson offers an insider’s view on the fascinating, thrilling, dangerous and, at times, glamorous world of being a naval aviator. This is a coming-of age story about a young college-aged woman who draws strength from a tight knit group of friends, called the Jet Girls, and struggles with all the ordinary problems of life: love, work, catty housewives, father figures, make-up, wardrobe, not to mention being put into harm’s way daily with terrorist groups such as ISIS and world powers such as Russia and Iran. Some of the most memorable parts of the book are about real life in training, in the air and in combat—how do you deal with having to pee in a cockpit the size of a bumper car going 600 miles an hour? Not just a memoir, this book also aims to change the conversation and to inspire and attract the next generation of men and women who are tempted to explore a life of adventure and service.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis F-18 Program by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power
Download or read book F-18 Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jet Fighter F/A-18 written by Frank Vann and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis F-18 Navy Air Combat Fighter, Fiscal Year 1976, Special Hearing Before ... , 94-1 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
Download or read book F-18 Navy Air Combat Fighter, Fiscal Year 1976, Special Hearing Before ... , 94-1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Team written by John Lundstrom and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare. From the earliest operations in the Pacific through the decisive Battle of Midway, it offers a narrative account of how ace fighter pilots like Jimmy Thach and Butch O'Hare and their skilled VF squadron mates - called the "first team" - amassed a remarkable combat record in the face of desperate odds. Tapping both American and Japanese sources, historian John B. Lundstrom reconstructs every significant action and places these extraordinary fighters within the context of overall carrier operations. He writes from the viewpoint of the pilots themselves, after interviewing some fifty airmen from each side, to give readers intimate details of some of the most exciting aerial engagements of the war. At the same time he assesses the role the fighter squadrons played in key actions and shows how innovations in fighter tactics and gunnery techniques were a primary reason for the reversal of American fortunes. After more than twenty years in print, the book remains the definitive account and is being published in paperback for the first time to reach an even larger audience.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices, Efficiency, and Open Government Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :216 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Air combat fighter programs by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices, Efficiency, and Open Government
Download or read book Air combat fighter programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices, Efficiency, and Open Government and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Topgun Days written by Dave Baranek and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of one man's rise from naval flight officer toHollywood hero.
Download or read book Lords of the Sky written by Dan Hampton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPS Lords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-paced, and definitive" (Michael Korda) history of fighter pilots and aircraft and their extraordinary influence on modern warfare, masterfully written by "one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history” (New York Post). A twenty-year USAF veteran who flew more than 150 combat missions and received multiple Distinguished Flying Crosses, Lt. Colonel Dan Hampton draws on his singular firsthand knowledge, as well as groundbreaking research in aviation archives and rare personal interviews with little-known heroes, including veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Hampton (the New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot) reveals the stories behind history's most iconic aircraft and the aviators who piloted them: from the Sopwith Camel and Fokker Triplane to the Mitsubishi Zero, Supermarine Spitfire, German Bf 109, P-51 Mustang, Grumman Hellcat, F-4 Phantom, F-105 Thunderchief, F-16 Falcon, F/A-18 Super Hornet, and beyond. In a seamless, sweeping narrative, Lords of the Sky is an extraordinary account of the most famous fighter planes and the brave and daring heroes who made them legend.
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year, 1976, Hearings Before ..., 94-1 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year, 1976, Hearings Before ..., 94-1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976: Appeal on House action, fiscal year 1975; congressional witnesses by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976: Appeal on House action, fiscal year 1975; congressional witnesses written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
