Military Aviation History
epub |eng | 2012-09-14 | Author:Bruce Gamble [Gamble, Bruce]

With an expansion to forty pilots for the forthcoming combat tour, the Black Sheep integrated numerous replacements at Turtle Bay. Interestingly, a total of forty-six individuals posed for the squadron ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Andrew Dow [Dow, Andrew]

Assuming that George Brown’s account of the conversation is accurate, it was clearly not the whole story. It could not be assumed that Bristol Siddeley had spare capacity, as in ...
( Category: Miniatures March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-19 | Author:Mano Ziegler [Ziegler, Mano]

‘FE’ means Foreign Evaluation. This Me 262B-1a, two-seater night fighter equipped with an SN-2 Lichtenstein radar, was captured undamaged by the Americans. Possibly Kurt Welter flew it once or twice. ...
( Category: Engineering March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Peter Caygill [Caygill, Peter]

CHAPTER 13 Accidents and Incidents During the development of the Javelin and its subsequent RAF service many were lost in accidents, although the overall accident rate was no worse than ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-20 | Author:David Toomey

It was mid-December 1944, exactly a week before Christmas. Eighty-six vessels of U.S. Navy Task Force 38 were in the Philippine Sea, 300 miles east of Luzon. There were eight ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Withington

Lebanon 1983 As the British and Argentines were locked in combat over the Falkland Islands, tensions in the Middle East continued to escalate. Israel was not the only country feeling ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Greg Vanwyngarden

Another group portrait taken on the steps at Ghistelles has Jasta commander Ernst Wendler at front centre (hands on his knees), seated on the knee of Günther Schuster at right. ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Roeder

Groundcrew work on an Invader from the 416th BG at Laon in the early spring of 1945. This is a late production A-26B with the revised ‘bubble canopy’ which was ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 24,2020 )
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 ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:RICHARD REEVES

CHAPTER 8 “Flying to His Death” December 6, 1948 ON DECEMBER 3, 1948, R UBY PHELPS OF LONG BEACH, California, received a letter from her husband, Captain Billy E. Phelps, ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Nicholas A. Veronico

A Sikorsky S-92 from Construction Helicopters lifted the center section of the Sandbar Mitchell and transported it to the airport at Fort Wainwright. The lift and flight took a little ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Tony Blackman

It required a bit of an adjustment to get used to the size and general speed of the Victor K2. I was also initially a bit overawed by the fuel ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Peter Kilduff

By the time Degelow reported to Jasta 40 – a walk across the airfield – the war had taken several dramatic turns. Certainly, one of these was the arrival in ...
( Category: World War I March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Tony Blackman

The three V Bombers. Of course I was still flying the Valiant on the Blue Steel programme from the other side of the airfield so it was interesting to be ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-19 | Author:Stephen L. Renner

Figure 5.2. One of three fifteen-passenger Fokker F.VIIIs produced by WM for MALERT. Courtesy of the Péter Zámbori Collection. The failure of MALERT’s domestic scheduled flights was not caused by ...
( Category: Military Aviation History March 20,2020 )