Автор: Robert L. Shaw
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год издания: 1985
isbn: 0870210599
Количество страниц: 447
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This book is one of the best single-source volumes on the complexity of modern aircraft combat maneuvering. It is not light reading, but fighter aviation is deadly serious - high speed, three dimensional chess where the loss of the game is a very ugly death. The book begins with the basics (flight sim players might find it useful to consider his chapters "lesson plans" for practicing) and gradually take the reader into greater depth. Readers may find it useful to re-read some chapters - the text is fairly tight and there is much of value in here that might get overlooked.
While individual aircraft systems and weapons vary, the basic principles of aerial killing have not changed since WWI: see before being seen, kill before the enemy realizes he is dead, protect your wingman, and come home alive. Shaw shows you how it is done.
Автор: David Williams
Издательство: Classic Publication
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 1903223539
Количество страниц: 100
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Produced in the same style as the Jagdwaffe series (which concentrated on German day fighters), this is the first of a two-part history of the German Nachtjager the nightfighter force in World War II. The Luftwaffe used many aircraft in the night fighter role, primarily to combat RAF Bomber Command's nocturnal heavy bombing raids against German targets from 1940-41 onwards, and a cat-and-mouse development of aircraft enhancement, weapons, guidance systems, and radar took place. The book contains a wide variety of aircraft. This volume, concentrates on the single-seat Me109 fighter adapted as a night fighter, early versions of the Me110 and the Ju88. The text is accompanied by a wide range of photographs (many published for the first time) together with color profiles, biographies of top night fighter aces such as Falck, Schnaufer, Lent, Jabs and others. Furthermore, the book includes pilot accounts and details of the Schrage Musik upward-firing, FuG202 Lichtenstein and SN-2 radar sets, etc. With the great importance attached by the Royal Air Force to its nocturnal bombing raids, the importance to the defense of Germany of the night fighter's squadrons cannot be overstated. This volume and its companion will provide the modeler and historian with a detailed examination of the Nachtjager forces deployed by the Luftwaffe during the war and will be required reading for all interested in the subject of the nightly battles over the skies of the Reich during World War II.
Автор: Vaclav Nemecek
Издательство: Willow Books, William Collins
Год издания: 1986
isbn: 0002180332
Количество страниц: 449
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1969, this updated edition was the first definitive history of Soviet aircraft. It includes over 600 photographs, with a mass of technical data in a separate 34-page section. Missing: colour section (12 pages).
Автор: Jeffrey L. Ethell
Издательство: Motorbooks International
Год издания: 1994
isbn: 0879389281
Количество страниц: 98
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This is the finest collection ever assembled of real color photographs of P-40 Warhawks in service. These are not photographs of restored warbirds - all are contemporary photos that show the colorful nose art and markings of World War II. More than 80 ultra-rare color shots from World War II show P-40s in flight, under test, and in service around the world.
Автор: Manfred Boehme
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год издания: 1992
isbn: 0887403956
Количество страниц: 288
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Formed in August 1944, Jagdgeschwader 7 was equipped with the revolutionary Me 262 jet fighter, which was faster than any aircraft in existence at the time. This unit experienced all of the highs and lows associated with the introduction of such a radically new design. Thus the history of JG 7 is also the story of the Me 262, and inspired design which broke new ground in many areas of technology, and for which there was simply not enough time for thorough development. The pilots of JG 7 frequently had to make do with improvisation and faced a numerically far superior enemy in an aircraft which was technically immature.Manfred Boehme has collected many documentary sources including first hand accounts, technical records and photo archives - many of the 150 photos are published here for the first time.
Автор: Christer Bergstrom
Издательство: Classic Publications
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 1903223369
Количество страниц: 99
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Defeat in North Africa and the disastrous loss of Sixth Army at Stalingrad were undoubtedly huge blows to the Wehrmacht, but the most critical battle of 1943 was fought at Kursk. In the spring of 1943, the Russian front bulged into the German lines between Kharkov and Orel. Here, in July, German forces tried to regain the initiative on the Russian Front by a planned attack to pinch off this salient and straighten the front, but forewarned, the Soviets absorbed the German thrust and counterattack. The climax to this titanic clash of forces was the battle at Kursk, scene of the largest tank battle in history, where German land forces were defeated and forced to retreat in the face of an unstoppable Soviet counterattack. Is it against this background that in this tile, Christer Bergstrom, an acknowledged expert on the air-war in Russia, describes the activities of the Luftwaffe's fighter-force in its battles over the Russian Front.
Автор: Joachim Dressel, Manfred Griehl, M.J. Shields
Издательство: Brockhampton Press
Год издания: 1999
isbn: 186019978X
Количество страниц: 353
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This publication includes two previously published titles - "Fighters of the Luftwaffe" (1993) and "Bombers of the Luftwaffe" (1994). The Luftwaffe Album provides impressive photographic coverage of over 35 fighter aircraft and more than 50 bombers. They are illustrated by over 600 photographs taken from rare archives. For the historian, enthusiast or modeller, this unprecedented pictorial guide to German aviation in World War Two is outstanding value. The illustrations are selected in order to show the full aircraft, in each important variant but then in close detail also. This enables features of weaponry, cockpit, markings, engines and other design elements to be shown, including machines during construction, in prototype and in action.
Автор: Martin Streetly
Издательство: Jane's Information Group
Год издания: 1978
isbn: 0710603568
Количество страниц: 258
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This book describes the events leading up to the Group's formation in November 1943 and gives a full account of its subsequent operational history, together with an analysis of its impact on the Luftwaffe's air defence system. The narrative is supported by extensive appendices and illustrations.
Автор: Danny Coremans, Nico Deboeck
Издательство: DACO Publications
Год издания: 2004
isbn: 9080674737
Количество страниц: 169
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The McDonnell Douglas - Boeing F/A-18 A / B / C / D "Legacy" Hornet has been around for over 20 years, serving as the backbone of the US Navy and Marine Corps, and as the premier fighter jet for the air forces of Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, Australia, Kuwait, Malaysia, and Thailand. With more than 700 full color pictures, this new publication uncovers every detail of the F/A-18 A/B/C/D Hornet, which was never published in such detail ever before; fuselage details, cockpit variants, maintenance and armament. Scale drawings and cockpit diagrams conclude this publication too.
Автор: Chuck Stewart
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1988
isbn: 0850458854
Количество страниц: 130
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Osprey Superbase series takes the enthusiast behind the scenes on the world's major air bases. This up-front series features spectacular, exclusive colour photography from aviation's camera sharpshooters. If you want to get inside the perimeter fence to see combat aircraft in their natural habitat, the Superbase series is literally where it's at.
Ramstein Air Base (IATA:RMS, ICAO: ETAR) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) and is also a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) installation. Ramstein is located near the town of Ramstein, in the rural district of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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