epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Bruce Barrymore Halpenny

A unique photograph of Captain (later Comodoro) Jorge Segat, navigator bombardier-CME in Canberra B-102, en route for its baptism of fire on 1 May 1982. The steel, gunmetal eyes show ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-10 | Author:Blackman, Tony; Wright, Anthony; & Anthony Wright

Things didn’t get any better when going down the A1 as most of us, apart from our officer in charge of the coach, and another squadron leader, decided that we ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-21 | Author:Lowell Thomas

Across the wide expanse of the forty-eight states, millions of people are gazing hopefully at newspaper bulletin boards or leaning over their radios, anxiously awaiting the news that all goes ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Johnny Kent

6 Squadron Commander I soon discovered that 92 Squadron, my new command, had not only lost four Commanding Officers, three of them in the past month, but the total losses ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:William H. Bartsch [William H. Bartsch]

IT WAS 0730 ON FEBRUARY 19 when the RAAF Hudsons carrying Vern Head and the other six crashed Timor pilots reached the RAAF field at Darwin after a four-hour night ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:William Althoff

L-2, 1 February 1941. The “10,000 Plane Program” legislation of June 1940 contained authorization for forty-eight nonrigid airships; the first contract was signed in October with Goodyear Aircraft—the only prime ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-14 | Author:Mark Chambers

Built by Mitsubishi at its Nagoya No. 3 Works, this G4M2a was assigned to the 763rd Kokutai at Clark Field during the summer of 1944. Fitted with Type 3 Ku ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Leslie Dawson

Catalina departing RAF Kogalla circa 1944. AUTHOR COLLECTION The idea of re-establishing contact between Australia and London arose again in October 1943, when talks between Hudson Fysh and BOAC considered ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Stanley Hooker [Hooker, Stanley]

Chapter 7 The Proteus I joined the Bristol Engine Division on 3 January 1949, full of optimism. The company was still producing large numbers of the excellent Hercules and Centaurus ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Margaret Lazarus Dean

When we finish eating and go outside, the cloud cover has cleared and the sun seems too bright, as if someone has turned it up beyond the point that cloudlessness ...

epub |eng | | Author:William R. Forstchen [Forstchen, William]

CHAPTER SEVEN "You know, laddie, I think I'm getting a bit too old for this sort of thing." Ian shook his head and said nothing, waiting for the jump transit ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Clancy, Tom [Tom, Clancy,]

For all the noise in the cargo compartment, the crew chiefs love the fact that their standard equipment kit (carried on top of the rear ramp) includes virtually everything needed ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris McNab

The Messerschmitt Me 262, when it entered Luftwaffe service in late 1944, offered levels of performance unobtainable by traditional prop-driven aircraft. It had a maximum speed of 870km/h and was ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Williams, Brian Glyn [Williams, Brian Glyn]

DRONES FOIL A MUMBAI-STYLE TERRORIST ATTACK IN EUROPE For those who support Obama’s withering drone campaign, there is no better proof of drones’ success in foiling terror strikes than their ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Tom Clancy

From the start, the Hercules had an unusual career within the U.S. military. The first operational employment of the C-130 came in 1957, when President Eisenhower dispatched troops of the ...