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Aerofax Datagraph 3: Bell X-1 Variants |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Ben Guenther, Jay Miller
Издательство: Aerofax
Год издания: 1988
isbn: 094254840X
Количество страниц: 68
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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The Bell X-1, originally designated XS-1, was a joint NACA-U.S. Army/US Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived in 1944 and designed and built over 1945, it eventually reached nearly 1,000 mph (1,609 km/h) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and thus longer engine-burn time, exceeded 1,600 mph (2,574 km/h) in 1954. The X-1 was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in controlled, level flight, and was the first of the so-called X-planes, an American series of experimental aircraft designated for testing of new technologies and usually kept highly secret. |
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Aerofax Datagraph 2: North American X-15/X-15A-2 |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Ben Guenther, Jay Miller, Terry Panopalis
Издательство: Aerofax
Год издания: 1985
isbn: 0942548345
Количество страниц: 68
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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North American Aviation's (now Rockwell International) seemingly inimitable X-15 high-speed, high-altitude research aircraft remains perhaps the single most successful manned experimental flight test vehicle in U.S. history. During its nearly ten years of active flight test activity, it generated a legacy of research data and aeronautical firsts that remain unparalleled in the world of aerospace research. From materials to propulsion systems, it was a workhorse testbed that either laid or helped lay the foundations for everything from the Rockwell International Space Shuttle to the forthcoming National Aerospace Plane (now officially designated X-30A). The X-15, in turn, owes its origins to the mid-1940's birth of the dedicated NACA/NASA, Air Force, and Navy research aircraft programs that led to the Bell X-1 family, the Bell X-2, the Douglas D-558-I, D-558-II, and X-3, the Lockheed X-7, and numerous other experimental aircraft types. |
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The Luftwaffe Profile Series No.03: Heinkel He 219 Uhu |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Joachim Dressel, Manfred Griehl
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 0887408192
Количество страниц: 50
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Each of the books that comprise the Luftwaffe Profile Series includes a selection of detailed close-up photographs, sometimes in colour, line drawings and an accompanying text that describes the planes and the theatres in which they operated. umber 3 in the Luftwaffe Profile Series describes the design and use of the Heinkel He 219 Uhu. |
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Convair B-36: A Comprehensive History of America's Big Stick |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Meyers K. Jacobsen
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год издания: 1997
isbn: 0764305301
Количество страниц: 397
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Convair B-36: A Comprehensive History of America's "Big Stick" is a collaborative effort edited and co-authored by Meyers Jacobsen exploring the history of one of SAC's air giants, the six-engine Convair B-36. From the origins of the use of six engines on bombers from around the world, along with the history and development of SAC and the use of its numbers of B-36s, this book will give the reader a greater amount of information than has ever before been published on the Convair B-36. Included with the technical and historical aspects of the B-36's use in SAC, are first hand anecdotes and accounts from the men who serviced, flew, and proudly served in SAC under Curtis LeMay. There are also detailed sections on the electronic countermeasures and various armament configurations applied in the B-36, as well as chapters containing information on B-36 attrition, and detailed accounts of the survivors that exist to this day. A wonderful book for aircraft historians, modellers, and SAC enthusiasts. |
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Its Variants |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Chris Reed
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год издания: 1999
isbn: 0764307223
Количество страниц: 135
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules and its Variants chronicles the development and career of the world's predominant military airlifter, from its origins in the depths of the Cold War through the present day. Over 170 photographs, many never before published, show the ""Herk"" in a variety of roles and paint schemes; coverage includes gunships, electronic warfare and reconniassance models, testbed and special use aircraft, and Navy/Models. Close-up detail photos of several variants will be of interest to scale modellers. |
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American Bomber Aircraft in World War II Vol. II: Boeing B-29 Superfortress |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: John M. Campbell
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год издания: 1997
isbn: 0764302728
Количество страниц: 266
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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The famed B-29 Superfortress is presented in this all new collection of World War II and Korean War era photographs. Many of the 850+ photographs appear here for the first time and are identified as to unit and location. |
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U.S. Bombers: B-1 1928 to B-1 1980's |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Lloyd S. Jones
Издательство: Aero Publishers
Год издания: 1974
isbn: 0816891265
Количество страниц: 257
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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This book is intended to illustrate the development of the American bomber, step by step, from the Keystone XB-1 biplane of 1928 to the Rockwell B-1A supersonic weapon of the 1980's. |
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Dominator: The Story of the Consolidated B-32 Bomber |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Stephen Harding, James I. Long
Издательство: Pictorial Histories Publishing
Год издания: 1984
isbn: 0933126387
Количество страниц: 66
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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In any discussion of American heavy bombers of the Second World War the aircraft most frequently mentioned are the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator and the B-29 Superfortress. This is understandable, for those aeriai workhorses were produced in great numbers, served in nearly every theater of war, and formed the backbone of the U.S. Army Air Force's strategic bombing offensive against the Axis powers. It is equally understandable why the Consolidated B-32 Dominator is the least remembered participant in that great offensive, for the 115 production B-32s delivered to the Army Air Forces amounted to only slightly more than two-tenths of one percent of the 50,750 bombardment aircraft accepted from contractors during the Second World War. |
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Bombers 1914-19: Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Kenneth Munson
Издательство: Blandford Press
Год издания: 1977
isbn: 0713706328
Количество страниц: 187
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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It is difficult to establish with certainty when bombs were first dropped from an aeroplane in the furtherance of a military campaign, but the earliest recorded occasion was on i November 1911, when Giulio Gavotti of the Squadriglia di Tripoli, flying a Rumpler Taube of the Italian Air Service, released four small bombs over the North African townships of Tagiura and Ain Zara. At any rate it is certain that, as a type, the use of the aeroplane as a bomber antedated the fighter by several years, for machines capable of such activity were in service or being designed some time before the outbreak of World War 1. One of the leading types at this time was the French Voisin, and the first bombing attack of the war was made by Voisins of the Aviation Militaire which bombed the Zeppelin hangars at Metz-Frascaty on 14 August 1914. During the early part of the war Germany and Austro-Hungary relied almost exclusively upon the Zeppelin airship as their main vehicle for bombing raids, and many of the first offensive sorties made by the Allies were directed at the factories or airfield sites where these 'monsters of the purple twilight' were built or housed. Before the end of 1914 a few successful bombing raids were also carried out by aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service. It is probably fair to say that their morale value was higher than that of the actual destruction caused, for they were made mostly by small aircraft carrying only a modest load of the lightest bombs. |
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The Battle of Britain |
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Категория: Самолеты, История войн |
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Автор: Jon Lake
Издательство: Amber Books
Год издания: 2000
isbn: 1552670074
Количество страниц: 261
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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One of the most pervasive views of the Battle of Britain was that heavily out-numbered but superior British pilots won their victory against overwhelming German forces through grit, courage and skill alone. This common perception, still widely held, also lays great stress on the wartime propagandist belief that the German fighter pilots were no match for their opponents. Yet it is worth reinvestigating the truth of what actually happened, as the Battle was in many ways a victory for the RAF's cautious tactics, tactics that ensured the survival of a Fighter Command which, though more than equal in courage and determination, was no match for the Germans when it came to combat experience and tactical expertise. The Battle was a 'close run thing', and if we ignore the German bomber losses, the Jagdwaffe caused greater damage than it sustained from Fighter Command. There are nearly as many interpretations of the Battle, and its significance, as there are books about the subject. Many of the issues remain matters of great controversy amongst historians and academics, and even among the survivors of those who fought. Most books have tended to 'take sides' and few offer a balanced view of the battle and the arguments surrounding it. This book is therefore intended both as a straightforward narrative history of the Battle, but also as a guide to some of the controversies and arguments. |
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