Aviation
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Coram

21 LEAVING CHINA Chennault’s genius for tactics and Scott’s genius for colorful leadership turned the Twenty-third into a fast-moving, nimble, and unpredictable combat organization that had an impact far out ...
( Category: World War II August 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-02 | Author:Phil H. Listemann

Kingcobra FZ440 replaced FR408 when the latter was lost in a flying accident. It remained in natural metal finish for its entire career with the RAE. Some equipment installed on ...
( Category: Aviation August 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:John Toland [Toland, John]

Gregory Boyington Early on the morning of February 7, Sandell took up a P-40 with a new tail assembly. He wanted to test it before anybody flew it into combat. ...
( Category: United States May 8,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Robert F. Dorr [Dorr, Robert F.]

September 8, 1944 Minus Ernst Heinkel himself, the company bearing his name wanted a second chance—following its near success with the Heinkel He 280—to get an operational jet into service. ...
( Category: History May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Sears, Stephen W.

The savage mauling of the Ploesti raiders was not an isolated incident. Barely two weeks later, the Luftwaffe delivered a second staggering blow at the AAF. Thus began the autumn ...
( Category: World War II April 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 1998-04-07 | Author:Michael Gannon [Gannon, Michael]

The secret was out, and it appeared likely that the Germans would now neutralize the centimetric wavelength in the same way that Metox had neutralized the metric. But the Telefunken ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Levine [Levine, Joshua]

In a letter to a friend, a woman from west London describes a Canadian soldier she had met – and perhaps gives a hint of their attraction to British women: ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-09 | Author:David Hambling [Hambling, David]

Seeing through Walls Radar has always been too big to fit on small drones, but predictably enough, it is also shrinking to fit. Much of this is due to the ...
( Category: Aviation March 1,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Peter Caygill

INVERTED STALLS An inverted (negative angle of attack) stall can only be obtained with abrupt application of full forward stick in vertical manoeuvres or an inverted climb of greater than ...
( Category: Aviation February 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Stella Pixton

Long hops – just as Roe had done as his first attempts at flying. However, persistent as ever that they were the first to fly in Britain, Avro now advertised, ...
( Category: History January 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Group Captain Richard "dickie" Haine Obe Dfc

Battle of Britain pilot. Bristol Blenheim Return to duty after escaping from Holland 1940. Hawker Hurricane, No.96 Squadron. That awful car. Blenheim IV Night Fighter. Defiant Night Fighter. Beaufighter Night ...
( Category: Aviation January 14,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-04-12 | Author:Scott, James M. [Scott, James M.]

TED LAWSON’S CONDITION continued to deteriorate. He suffered a terrible night on April 25, forcing Doc White to give him a blood transfusion. The doctor recruited Griffith Williams to serve ...
( Category: World War II January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Jackson, Sophie

8 LIVING WITH DISILLUSIONMENT Himmler’s headquarters in East Prussia were neatly arranged as Hanna paid her long-postponed visit in July 1943. It was early evening and Hanna was worried about ...
( Category: World War II January 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:John T. Halliday [Halliday, John T.]

As I rolled into a left turn to swing back around for a damage assessment flyby, I glanced over at Squeaky. The kid looked flabbergasted. I thought his eyebrows might ...
( Category: Vietnam War December 27,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Hugh Mills

After that action, it took several days for the troop to get back to normal. We had wounds to lick. The ARPs needed replacements. I needed four new ships in ...
( Category: Vietnam War December 26,2015 )