epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Laura J. Hoffman

Shown here at Miami International in the late 1950s, the DC-7 CP was first introduced in 1953. It was the first commercial transport able to fly westward, against the wind, ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-17 | Author:Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Dave Baranek [Baranek, Dave]

_________________ * At the time I visited, Buckley was an Air National Guard Base. It later became an Air Force Base, which is its status in 2016. ELEVEN Dogfights in ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:F. Robert van der Linden [Van Der Linden, F. Robert]

The Museum’s Kawanishi N1K2-J Shinden “George,” a land-based descendant of the “Rex” floatplane fighter, was restored in the markings of the 343rd Kokutai, a unit stationed at Omura Naval Air ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Cory Graff

Airport security was a bit more lax during the days before World War II. Here photographers have camped out at the north end of the runway to shoot images of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Guy Gibson

Chapter 14 Turning of the Tide I f mere squadrons were giving plenty of thought to the matter of getting more bombs on the target, let us say something of ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:Ronald M. Williamson

This map shows the runway configurations for the airfield at NAS Jacksonville and the seaplane runway configurations in the St. Johns River in 1941. The seaplane landing and takeoff areas ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:National Air & Space Museum

IN 1944, THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM’S IL–2 WAS SHOT DOWN AND MADE A FORCED LANDING ON A FROZEN LAKE NEAR LENINGRAD (ST. PETERSBURG). OVER FOUR DECADES LATER, IT ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Graham Simons

epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Joseph J. Corn [Corn, Joseph J.]

OVER KOREA: 1952 James Salter from The Hunters James Salter (b. 1925) graduated from West Point in 1945 and joined the Air Force. While serving as an F-86 Sabrejet pilot ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Kent Whitaker

Daily life aboard Alabama took a turn on December 18, 1944, when she, along with several other ships, rode out a typhoon. Alabama listed 30 degrees on several occasions. Her ...

mobi |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Richard Benjamin Cass [Cass, Richard Benjamin]

Three THOSE MAGNIFICENT JETS , CHARLES Braniff recorded its greatest growth period to date between 1954 and 1964, under the guidance of the company’s new president Charles E. Beard, who ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-14 | Author:Manfred von Richthofen [von Richthofen, Manfred]

CHAPTER 9 - I GET THE ORDRE POUR LE MERITE .................. I HAD BROUGHT DOWN MY sixteenth victim, and I had come to the head of the list of all ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Ryan Dale

Start the takeoff by slowly raising the collective until the helicopter becomes light on its skids. While light on the skids, pause for a moment to neutralize all movements of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Charles Woodley

By Flying-Boat to Africa: A Passenger’s View At the end of November 1948 newly married Hilary Kirk emigrated to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, aboard the BOAC Short Solent G-AHIY Southsea. She ...