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Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Post-World War II Fighters, 1945-1973 written by Marcelle Size Knaack and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
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ISBN 13 : 9780912799193
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Post-World War II Fighters, 1945-1973 written by Marcelle Size Knaack and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems: Post-World War II fighters, 1945-1973 written by Marcelle Size Knaack and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems: Post-World War II fighters, 1945-1973 written by Marcelle Size Knaack and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems. Volume 1. Post-World War II Fighters 1945-1973 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains basic information on all Air Force fighters developed between World War II and 1973, including all configurations. It is based primarily on US Air Force sources. The origin of each aircraft is noted as well as its most troublesome development, production, and operational problems. Also covered are significant modifications, most of which can be attributed to ever-changing aeronautical technology. Production totals, delivery rates, unit costs, phaseout dates, and other important milestones are provided, as well as a brief description of each version's new features. The book begins with the first postwar American jet fighter the F-80 Shooting Star. It ends with Northrop's F-5 Freedom Fighter. Complete consistency of data on each fighter was not always available, but each section describes the aircraft's basic development, production decision dates, program changes, test results, procurement methods, and the like. Technical data and operational characteristics also are provided.
Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems: Post-World War II bombers, 1945-1973 written by Marcelle Size Knaack and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark A. Lorell
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833048600
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Cutting Edge written by Mark A. Lorell and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1998-10-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposition that innovation is critical in the cost-effective design and development of successful military aircraft is still subject to some debate. RAND research indicates that innovation is promoted by intense competition among three or more industry competitors. Given the critical policy importance of this issue in the current environment of drastic consolidation of the aerospace defense industry, the authors here examine the history of the major prime contractors in developing jet fighters since World War II. They make use of an extensive RAND database that includes nearly all jet fighters, fighter-attack aircraft, and bombers developed and flown by U.S. industry since 1945, as well as all related prototypes, modifications, upgrades, etc. The report concludes that (1) experience matters, because of the tendency to specialize and thus to develop system-specific expertise; (2) yet the most dramatic innovations and breakthroughs came from secondary or marginal players trying to compete with the industry leaders; and (3) dedicated military R&D conducted or directly funded by the U.S. government has been critical in the development of new higher-performance fighters and bombers.
Author : E.R. Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647162X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book American Attack Aircraft Since 1926 written by E.R. Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Brian D. Laslie
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806194383
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Fighting from Above written by Brian D. Laslie and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War—well before the USAF became a separate service—and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account of this expansive history, offering a new perspective on how the air forces of the United States created an independent way of warfare over time. From the earliest battles of the USAF’s predecessor organizations to its modern incarnation, Brian D. Laslie identifies four distinct and observable ways of war that developed over four distinct epochs. Beginning with the development of early air power (1906–1941), he highlights the creation of roles and missions, with bombardment theory and practice ascendant. An era of strategic dominance (1942–1975) followed in which the ideas of strategic bombardment ruled the air force; when such notions were unceremoniously proven false during the Vietnam-era conflicts, a period of tactical ascendancy (1975–2019) began. Finally, Laslie considers the current environment, where much of the story of the USAF remains unwritten as it grapples with the prospects and challenges posed by drones and the U.S. Space Force. While detailing combat operations, Fighting from Above also pays close attention to technology, politics, rivalries, logistics, policy, organization, equipping, and training. Thorough, concise, and innovative in its approach, it is an authoritative, exceptionally readable history of the development of American airpower.
Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems: Post-World War II fighters, 1945-1973 written by Marcelle Size Knaack and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Werrell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1648431305
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Air Force Disappointments, Mistakes, and Failures written by Kenneth Werrell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While successful developments in aviation receive considerable attention, the projects that failed or otherwise did not live up to expectations receive far less, if any, scrutiny. Typically, unsuccessful efforts are briefer in duration and have a less visible paper trail. Thus, while the literature is rich in success stories, we tend to “forget” or simply bury our failures. And, as one observer has suggested, “that there were failures, mistakes, and wrong turns reminds us that progress is not inevitable, that acknowledged error can be as instructive as success, and that roads not taken impose a price all their own.” Here, author Kenneth P. Werrell tells of a race to overcome obstacles—politics, resources, competing technologies, timing—in the quest to deliver quality, if not war-winning machinery. The focus of Air Force Disappointments, Mistakes, and Failures: 1940–1990 is on aircraft (e.g., bombers, fighters, transports) and missiles (e.g., cruise missiles, standoff missiles, ballistic missiles, surface-to-air missiles, air-to-air missiles). An intelligence system is also evaluated. These case studies give the context and details of the development, testing, and, as appropriate, operational service. Highlighting the problems and criticisms of these systems then provides an opportunity to determine what went wrong. The reasons for the failures of these systems vary from the obvious (money, delays, technical problems) to more complex reasons, such as the foe’s reaction, politics, new technologies, and timing. The tale of these disappointments is a heretofore untold story. These projects, in which the US Air Force stumbled, are outliers within the overall success of the service, and, fortunately, its successes outnumber the failures.
Author : Donald W. Klinko
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Aircraft, Engine, and Missile Maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1942--1992 written by Donald W. Klinko and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Curran
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612003001
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Check Six! written by Jim Curran and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Makes you proud to be an American . . . a wonderful, fast-paced read, and I highly recommend it for any World War II aviation enthusiast” (Military Review). There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James “Jug” Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the first P-47 Thunderbolt outfit in the Pacific. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Curran volunteered to try flying in the blue yonder and trained as an Army fighter pilot. He got his wish to fly the P-47 in the Pacific, going into combat in August 1943, in New Guinea, and later helping start the “Black Rams” fighter squadron. The heavy US Thunderbolts were at first curious to encounter the nimble, battle-hardened Japanese in aerial combat, but soon, the American pilots gained skill of their own and their planes proved superior. Bombers on both sides could fall to fighters, but the fighters themselves were eyeball to eyeball, best man win. Check Six! is an aviation chronicle that brings the reader into flight, then into the fight, throughout the Pacific War and back. This work, from someone who was there, captures the combat experience of our aviators in the Pacific, aided by pertinent excerpts from the official histories of units that “Jug” Curran flew with. “Jim Curran is not afraid to share his moments of fear and emotions during the air battles with his readers which gives the book an extra dimension.” —AviationBookReviews.com
Author : Marcelle Size Knaack
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of US Air Force Aircraft and Missile Systems written by Marcelle Size Knaack and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Publications written by United States. Air Force. Office of Air Force History and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book United States Air Force History Publications written by Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Just for You written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
