Century Series Fighters

Author : W. D. Becker
Publisher : Inland Expressions
ISBN 13 : 0981815790
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supersonic Eagles written by W. D. Becker and published by Inland Expressions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Second World War, major advancements in aviation technology allowed the development of jet aircraft with capabilities undreamt of only a few years earlier. During the 1950s, the US Air Force placed six new jet fighters into service, which became known as the Century Series Fighters. In this publication the histories of the F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief, and the F-106 Delta Dart are related.

Author : Mads Bangso
Publisher : Tempest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781911639701
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Century Series Fighters written by Mads Bangso and published by Tempest Books. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ted Spitzmiller
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764340383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century Series written by Ted Spitzmiller and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of fighter aircraft that transitioned the United States Air Force into the supersonic era. By 1952, fighter designations that started with the Curtiss P-1 in 1923, reached the century mark with the North American F-100 - thus the term Century Series. This occurred at the very point where operational fighters could exceed the speed of sound. The useful lives of the six century series aircraft that saw operational service were long and varied - one performing its military role almost fifty years after its prototype first took to the air. Even today, current production fighters barely surpass the speeds and altitudes at which these aircraft flew. The Century Series story is also one that moves past their initial operational period and into the war in Vietnam. This book includes first-hand accounts by the men who flew intercept missions in the F-102 and F-106. See what it was like to fly reconnaissance in the F-101, Wild Weasel F-100 sorties, and bombing runs in Southeast Asia in an F-105. Experience the tension of a night refueling in an F-100 or the exhilaration of strapping on an F-104 for a flight beyond Mach 2. This is their story; a chronicle of the men, machines and ideas that set the standard for a half-century of fighter development - a must read for aviation enthusiasts.

Author : David Donald
Publisher : AIRtime Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781880588680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Century Jets written by David Donald and published by AIRtime Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title contains in-depth profiles of the six operational 'Century Series' fighters developed during the Cold War: F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief and F-106 Delta Dart. Includes type development history, variants, service record, operators, specifications, weapons, avionics and mission systems."--Publisher description.

Author : Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9781580071116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimental & Prototype U.S. Air Force Jet Fighters written by Dennis R. Jenkins and published by Specialty Press (MN). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental and Prototype U.S. Air Force Jet Fighters examines the development of fighter airframes and engines since the end of World War II. The book covers each design that reached the hardware development stage and received an XF or YF designation from the Air Force. Sometimes the airframe/engine combination worked, as it did in the North American F-86 Sabre. Other times, technology failed, as it did in the Convair XP-92 ducted-rocket interceptor. In addition to the changing aerodynamic technologies, the evolution of offensive weapons for each evolution of fighter is also reviewed. Much of the data used in the book came from previously classified Air Force program documents. Dozens of never-before-seen photos highlight this review of Air Force fighter aircraft.

Author : Ray Whitford
Publisher : Ihs Global Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Air Combat written by Ray Whitford and published by Ihs Global Incorporated. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskriver de aerodynamiske og flyvemæssige hensyn, der skal tages i f.m. konstruktionen af et moderne kampfly

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428990488
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.

Author : J. P. Vieira
Publisher : Tempest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781911639343
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book US Navy Fighters written by J. P. Vieira and published by Tempest Books. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Navy has a proud history of flying the fastest, best equipped and most powerful jet fighters in the world. This bookazine features more than 200 profiles including all 17 of the Navy's front line jet fighters, depicted by renowned artist JP Vieira.

Author : Peter E. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780963157
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book F-104 Starfighter Units in Combat written by Peter E. Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title covers the technical characteristics of the F-104 Starfighter, one of the most widely-used and popular aircraft in history. Although built in small numbers for the USAF, the F-104C fought and survived for almost three years in Vietnam. There, it was engaged in some of the war's most famous battles including the legendary operation Bolo, where seven North Vietnamese MiGs were destroyed without the loss of a single US fighter. This small, tough and very fast fighter, dubbed 'The Missile with a Man in It', was called upon to do things it was not specifically designed for, and did them admirably. Featuring illustrations and photographs detailing the variety of nose-paint schemes and weapons configurations, this comprehensive appraisal of the F-104 Starfighter is ideal for modelling and aviation enthusiasts alike.

Author : Ronald Easley
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764347993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The F-101 Voodoo written by Ronald Easley and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived in the waning days of World War II as an escort for the mammoth Convair B-36 bomber, the McDonnell Model 36 "Voodoo" first took to the air in 1948. With advances in turbojet technology, aerial refueling, and miniaturized nuclear weapons, the Model 36 was recast as a fighter-bomber of unimaginable firepower: the F-101A Strategic Fighter. Overcoming tremendous developmental challenges, the Voodoo served into the late-1980s, nearly forty years after its maiden flight. As a nuclear strike aircraft, reconnaissance platform, and reliable high-performance interceptor, the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo carries the sole distinction among the famed "Century Series" fighters of serving in the most trouble spots, from the era of Eisenhower and Khrushchev through that of Reagan and Gorbachev, in the waning days of the Cold War. Based on hundreds of pages of recently declassified documents, this new work brings the Voodoo into its long-denied place in the limelight.