Автор: James Goulding, Philip Moyes
Издательство: Ian Allan Publishing
Год издания: 1975
isbn: 071100627X
Количество страниц: 155
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This is the first of a two-volume work whose chief aim is to tell the story of RAF Bomber Command from its foundations in 1936 until the end of World War II, with particular emphasis on the bombers themselves, including some fascinating color material. Specifically with modelers in mind, the authors have included a special chapter on the engrossing subject of bomber camouflage and markings.
Автор: Peter M. Bowers
Издательство: Arco
Год издания: 1971
isbn: 0668024038
Количество страниц: 98
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Peter Bowers started collecting aviation documents in 1928. Since that time, he has amassed an outstanding library of reference material. While a student at the Boeing School of Aeronautics in 1940 he started an airplane photo negative collection that is now one of the largest in the world, containing nearly 50,000 individually filed negatives. From this vast collection, the photos in this book were drawn. This volume of Forgotten Fighters is the second in the series.
Автор: Robert F. Dorr
Издательство: Blandford Press
Год издания: 1988
isbn: 0713719486
Количество страниц: 130
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This pictorial survey offers a very special collection of rare photographs, many featuring airraft 'in action', along with the author's pertinent captioning which succinctly describes the role of each aircraft and its position in the evolution of modern air warfare. By covering prototypes, adapted designs and lesser marks and referring to the full range of post-war theatres of air action, Robert Dorr has compiled a valuable illustrated reference for enthusiasts, historians, modellers and preservationists.
Автор: John M. Dibbs, Michael F. Jerram
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 1855324989
Количество страниц: 145
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
From the Osprey Military Aircraft series, a highly visual celebration of the Hawker Hurricane, the RAF's first monoplane fighter, which features photographs of surviving models both on the ground and in the air, with an accompanying text.
Автор: Basil Collier
Издательство: Sidgwick & Jackson
Год издания: 1981
isbn: 028398399X
Количество страниц: 144
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
When Japan opened hostilities against the Western Powers in December 1941, she was in no position to sustain a long war or to gain an outright victory over her opponents. Her productive capacity was far smaller than theirs. She had never been rich in raw materials. Her oil reserves, after reaching a peak at the end of the 1930s, had begun to fall off as a result of increased consumption and restrictions imposed by her suppliers. Her merchant fleet barely sulliced for peacetime needs. Her army was well trained and well equipped, hut forty of its fifty-one divisions were committed to a wearisome struggle in China and defensive tasks at home and in Korea and Manchuria. She had ten battleships and six fleet carriers in commission, but on paper Britain and the United States were still the strongest naval powers. Her statesmen, when they decided in November that war was preferable to acquiescence in American proposals, did not aim at annihilating her enemies or bringing them to their knees by a long-drawn process of attrition. They gambled on the hope that spectacular achievements by relatively small forces with strong air support would soon put them in a position to negotiate a settlement on favourable terms.
Автор: Michael Sharpe
Издательство: Amber Books / Grange Books
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 1840133163
Количество страниц: 320
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Features 300 of the world's most important biplanes, triplanes and seaplanes, each one illustrated with a detail colour drawing, plus full specification and details of armaments, and a full development and operational history. A great history of these very special aircraft, from the AEG C. IV to the Zeppelin-Staaken R. Each aircraft is illustrated by full colour art work, with accompanying text and a detailed specifications table. Types used in the major wars of the 20th century are listed, including the Sopwith Camel and the Red inter-war civil aircraft.
Автор: Jim Winchester
Издательство: Amber Books / Grange Books
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 1840138157
Количество страниц: 320
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
X stands for the unknown in mathematics and physics. An 'X-Plane' is an experimental or research aircraft designed to explore the boundaries of aeronautical science, and the term has become shorthand for any development model, research aircraft or technology demonstrator. Fuelled by the desire to conquer the unknown, the aviation industry has created some of the most remarkable and spectacular aircraft ever to fly, including rocket-powered spacecraft, vertical take-off aeroplanes, giant transporters, and experimental rotorcraft. X-planes are by no means exclusively military. In just over a century, civilian engineers and test pilots have advanced aeronautics from the tentative hops of the Wright Flyer to beyond the atmosphere with the SpaceShipOne, and are certain to go higher, faster and further. X-Planes and Prototypes details 150 of of these incredible and unusual aircraft, from the early years of aviation to the present day, exploring their capabilities, features and development. Each aircraft is illustrated with a full page photograph, annotated to show particularly unusual or experimental features, while the lively text provides an insight into the history and test career of each type, alongside archive images from the aircraft's heyday, artwork or diagrams.
Автор: Scott A. Thompson
Издательство: Crowood Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 1861265034
Количество страниц: 191
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Douglas A-26 and B-26 Invader has often been overshadowed by other aircraft and circumstances. It saw service too late in World War II to lay claim to a distinctive heritage. By Korea, it was seen as a workhorse and just an old "propeller job". But there can be no doubt that the Invader was a fine aircraft - highly effective and popular with its crews. This volume presents the complete story of the Douglas Invader, from its design and early history through wartime service and peacetime uses. A selection of rare photographs are used to illustrate this history of the oft-forgotten but nonetheless impressive A-26 and B-26 Invader.
Автор: Robert Jackson
Издательство: Airlife Publishing
Год издания: 2003
Количество страниц: 100
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Wooden Wonder - the nickname of one of the finest and most elegant airplanes to have been developed during Word War II. Apart from being very fast and versatile, the Mosquito had the added bonus of wooden construction; this was of great significance during the early wartime years when Britain's defense industry was running short of raw materials and skills to manufacture in steel and alloy. Working with wood utilized a large body of hitherto under-employed skilled carpenters and wood was more readily available than metal. The first Mosquito to join the Royal Air Force was a photoreconnaissance Mk I in 1941. It soon became apparent that there was great potential in this Merlin-powered design and before the War had ended it was flying as a fast light bomber, a night fighter and a pathfinder on night bombing raids deep into Germany. Over 7,500 aircraft were built.
Автор: Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov
Издательство: Crowood Publications
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 1840372389
Количество страниц: 192
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Russian-built Mil Mi-24 is one of the best known and most prolific combat helicopter in the world. This volume includes an introductory explanation of the concept and a detailed development history of the helicopter. Descriptions of existing versions include test beds.
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