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Colonel David W. Irvin, Jr. (USAF Retired) of Peachtree City, GA, formerly of Grass Valley, CA, died October 24, 2006. He was a veteran pilot of WWII, the Berlin Airlift, and the Korean and Vietnam wars.
his book provides a detailed overview of the history of winged spacecraft and the development of the vehicle we call the “space shuttle,” and provides a technical description of the orbiter, main engines, external tank, and solid rocket boosters
This is the story of the Arado 234, an aircraft that on one day in 1944, in the skies above Normandy, heralded the beginning of a new era in aviation: the jet era...
The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft is the heretofore untold true story of Reimar, Wolfram, and Walter Horten’s remarkable aeronautical achievements with the all-wing planform between 1933 and 1945 as told to aviation biographer David Myhra.
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Schiffer Military History #47
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Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight testing of the twin turbojet powered all-wing prototype Horten Ho 9 fighter/interceptor and its serial produc
Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight testing of the twin turbojet powered all-wing prototype Horten Ho 9 fighter/interceptor and its serial produc
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Thanks to approach to first-hand sources, this volume is providing answers to precisely these questions and thus providing an exclusive insight into the conduct of operations by such modern aircraft types like F-15S, F-16E/F, EF-2000 Typhoon, and Mirage 2
Using newly released secret intelligence sources, neglected memoirs, and popular memory, this tells the story of military aviation in Yemen since 1962..........
- Concise history of the Bell UH-1 Huey in combat during the Vietnam War
- Covers its design, development, and evolution through various models during the course of the war
the bold and provocative operations flown by the CIA-operated Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have epitomized the rivalry between the United States of America and the Soviet Union during the early to middl
For the first time, the history of one of the most significant and longest-lasting Luftwaffe combat units is presented. Operating against Tito and his partisans in Yugoslavia, Nachtschlachtgruppe 7, and its predecessor units Störkampfstaffel Kroatien and
Published late 2024,44 pages, 100 black & white and colour photographs, 5-view line drawings/plans, walk around, 48 colour profiles, scale black & white line plans / drawings, variants list, softcover, A4 format, 21 cm x 29.7 cm
Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain. He then went on to become an experienced pilot trainer and examiner. The story of that journey, told in I Hav
IIyushin II28 (Beagle): Warpaint #130 softcover
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The Ilyushin IL2 Sturmovik was one of the most widely produced combat aircraft in history, with over 38,000 built. It was the Soviet Red Army's principal strike aircraft in the Great Patriotic War. Known to its pilots as the diminutive 'Ilyusha' the Stur
The book details the history of Imperial Japanese Army Flying Schools from 1912 to 1945, covering not only the formation of the schools, but also evolution of the training aircraft and the training of pilots, other aircrew, and ground crew maintenance per
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The first volume of The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 mini-series, Indian Military Intervention in East Pakistan, tells the captivating story of the military conflict fought between India and Pakistan in 1971 in what is present day Bangladesh, and resulted i
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The legendary Grumman A-6 Intruder was born into battle, making its first deployment off the decks of the USS Independence into Southeast Asia in 1966. For the next three decades, it was the ""main battery"" of the U.S. fleet and the primary strike weapon
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history using