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Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation’s (Convair) attempt to make a few design changes to its famous B-24 Liberator for the U.S. Navy in 1942 eventually evolved into the PB4Y-2 Privateer, a 70,000-pound patrol bomber
This book explores the history of the Strategic Air Command's biggest bomber that helped keep the peace during the early years of the Cold War. The six-engined B-36 - later ten engine - was the first intercontinental bomber that could fly across continent
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
With vivid detail and many exclusive photographs, Wayne Mutza chronicles the Convair’s F-102 Delta Dagger’s unsteady course through history, from its inception to present-day survivors.
Published 2000, 192 pages, over 530 black & White and color photo
Published December 2021, 304 pages, 100+ black & white photographs and diagrams, maps, hardcover, 6" x 9" inches (15 x 23 cm)
This book describes the development of the legendary F4U Corsair, and follows it into battle from Guadalcanal to the Indian Ocean, Central Pacific Ocean, Korea, Africa, and Central America, and throughout its lengthy military career into Korea............
Published February 2023, 304 pages, 120 colour and black & white photographs, hardcover, 6" x 9" inches
Published late 2021, 256 pages, over 100 black & white and colour photographs, maps and graphics, hardcover, 7" (18 cm) x 10" inches (25 cm).
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The “Desert Boneyards” are a concept well known to every aeronautical enthusiast, and yet also veiled in secrecy. Gigantic desert aerodromes in which military and civilian aircraft from all over the world are stored,
This is the incredible story of the German DFS 228, an ultra high-altitude photo reconnaissance aircraft, and the first to have a pressurized, and jettisonable cockpit.
Published 2000, 112 pages, 220 Black & white photographs, softcover, 8.5" x 11"
The journey into space is a dangerous one, and although some aspects of space travel seem to be routine it still takes humanity to the limits of what is technically possible. It is an environment that forgives no mistake, and where carelessness usually ha
Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about four months after Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a quick response to the Japanese ambush on Hawaii to demonstrate to the Japanese that they were not invulnerable to attac
Unique history of the first Wehrmacht bomber aircraft including the early Dornier Do F, 11, and 13 models.
Published 1997, 48 pages, 80 black & white photographs, softcover, 8 1/2" x 11"
In 1935, the intent of the Army Air Corps was to build a potential intercontinental bomber, a “Guardian of the Hemisphere”; they granted Donald Douglas a contract to build the world’s largest bomber. ......................
Published October 2023, 560 pages, over 720 black & white and colour photographs, insignia, patches, hardcover, 8 1/2" x 11" inches
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Eight Ballers: Eyes of the 5th Air Force: The 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in World War II hardcover
UAVs—unmanned aerial vehicles, remotely piloted aircraft; the labels vary—are a disruptive technology on par with computers and smartphones. Present since soon after the dawn of manned aviation, they have become controversial only in recent times.
Conceived in the waning days of World War II as an escort for the mammoth Convair B-36 bomber, the McDonnell Model 36 “Voodoo” first took to the air in 1948. With advances in turbojet technology, aerial refueling, and miniaturized nuclear weapons, the Mod
Published 2015, 168 pages, 215 black & white and colour photographs, hardcover, 8 1/2" x 11"