Boeing B 29 Superfortress Warbirdtech Vol 14

Author : Peter M. Bowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580071864
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Warbirdtech written by Peter M. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 30 volumes now available, this series is one of the best sources of information for modellers and aviation enthusiasts. Each volume is jam packed full of excerpts, drawings, exploded views, cutaways, assembly line, and repair depot photographs taken from original tech manuals. The photos in this edition are black and white.

Author : Peter M. Bowers
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9780933424791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boeing B-29 Superfortress written by Peter M. Bowers and published by Specialty Press (MN). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This top-flight series provides a review of the world's most exciting combat aircraft.

Author : Earl. J. McGill
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1908916087
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Tuesday Over Namsi written by Earl. J. McGill and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping true account of warfare in the skies over Korea, when American bombers and North Korean jet fighters would change the course of air combat. On October 23, 1951, an hour and a half before sunrise, nine B-29s of the 307th Bombardment Wing took off from Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan, on a bombing mission against Namsi—a North Korean airfield under construction in the heart of the shooting gallery known as MiG Alley. In under six hours, they would engage in a battle that would forever change the conduct of strategic aerial bombardment. Six of the nine aircrafts were shot down; the highest percentage of US bombers ever lost on a major mission. Unfortunately, this event that many experts consider the epic air battle of the Korean War—and perhaps the greatest jet engagement in the history of aerial warfare—has become another forgotten fight in a forgotten war. Here, Earl J. Hill presents the facts and circumstances of the mission from first briefing to final landing using historical documents, firsthand accounts of aircrew members and ground personnel from both sides, and photographs of the mission and its aftermath. This is the story of those who clashed in the skies above Namsi, the events leading up to it, and Black Tuesday’s historical impact on the aerial warfare tactics.

Author : Daniel T. Schwabe
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346391
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burning Japan written by Daniel T. Schwabe and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burning Japan is an investigation of how and why the air force shifted its tactics against Japan from a precision bombing strategy to area attacks. When strategic bombing failed to yield the desired results in Europe and in initial efforts against Japan, the United States switched tactics, a shift that culminated in the area firebombing of nearly every major Japanese metropolis and the burning of sixty-six cities to the ground.

Author : Hunter W. Whitehead
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031409639
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology written by Hunter W. Whitehead and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a subfield overview on current research, trends, and commentary on the state of aeronautical archaeology and its development, through selections from a session on aviation archaeology at the 2020 Society for Historical Archaeology Conference. It serves to highlight those practices and projects that take strides towards standard methodologies in aeronautical archaeology. This book involves the study of aircraft crash sites, airfields, battlefields, and buildings or structures related to aviation. High profile sites and topics in this book include Lake Mead’s B-29 Superfortress, Tuskegee Airmen in Michigan, and patterns of preservation in WWII aircraft and their importance. A relatively new field, aeronautical archaeology is the sub-field of archaeology that examines past human interaction with flight. The authors aim to create more awareness for aviation cultural heritage projects and the associated community of scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. This volume includes contributions from leading global scholars through varied scientific inquiries, summaries of site investigations, and conservation techniques of aeronautical heritage.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert O Harder
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513174
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying from the Black Hole written by Robert O Harder and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots—their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings—two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian conventional bombing sorties would have been impossible. This book reveals who these men were and what they did down in the “Black Hole,” a story told by one of their own.

Author : Edward H. Phillips
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stearman Aircraft written by Edward H. Phillips and published by Specialty Press (MN). This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Stearman Aircraft Company is about American entrepreneurship, aeronautical innovation, and the sheer determination to design and manufacture custom-built airplanes that set a standard for the competition to follow. In his new book Stearman Aircraft, author Edward Phillips follows the career of Lloyd Carlton Stearman from his work on the New Swallow biplane to the expansion of Stearman facilities into Boeing Airplane Company plants. In between was the Travel Air years, out of which came the Model A, B, CH, CW, BW, and Type 5000. The book also pays special attention to Stearman's rare C1 and C2 biplanes, as well as later upgraded C2s, the C3 series, the M-2, the LT-1, the luxurious CAB-1, the Model 6 Cloudboy, and others. During World War II, Boeing's sprawling facilities churned out thousands of Kaydet biplanes to train fledgling aviators, more than 1,600 B-29 Superfortresses heavy bombers to pound Japan into submission, and a steady stream of critical airframe assemblies for the famed B-17 Flying Fortress to reduce Hitler's Third Reich to rubble. For its work on these great aircraft, Boeing's Wichita Division earned six Army-Navy E awards for excellence in manufacturing and production.

Author : Steve Birdsall
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saga of the Superfortress written by Steve Birdsall and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history with photographs of the plane that carried the atomic bomb to Japan, its pilots and their missions.

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ISBN 13 : 9781594165085
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superfortress written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: