Griffon Powered Mustangs

Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580071840
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griffon-Powered Mustangs - Raceplanetech written by Nicholas A. Veronico and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume takes a look at Griffon-Powered Mustangs and includes the evolution of the world record-setting Red Baron; World Jet Mustang development and racing history; the evolution of Miss Ashley II, airframe and cockpit modifications, including Lear Jet Wings; F-86 tail; Griffon engine development; and unlimited racing results. The author's research is supplemented with first-hand interviews of the participants-from engine builders to crew chiefs and pilots. The photos in this edition are black and white.

Author : A. Kevin Grantham
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9781580070348
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griffon-powered Mustangs written by A. Kevin Grantham and published by Specialty Press (MN). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the evolution of the world record-setting Red Baron; World Jet Mustang development and racing history; the evolution of Miss Ashley II; airframe and cockpit modifications; Griffon engine development; and unlimited racing results.

Author : Kev Darling
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781840373578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P-51 Mustang written by Kev Darling and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of the P-51 Mustang, thought to be the finest U.S. fighter plane of World War II.

Author : James William "Bill" Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472839641
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P-51B Mustang written by James William "Bill" Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the United States Army Air Corps was led by a cadre of officers who believed implicitly that military aviation, particularly fast heavy bombers at high altitude, would be able to destroy strategic enemy targets during daylight with minimal losses. However, by 1942 the Flying Fortress was proving vulnerable to Luftwaffe fighters. This title charts the United States Army Air Force's struggle to develop a Long-Range Escort which would enable them to achieve the Combined Bomber Objectives and gain mastery of the skies over the Third Reich. The commitment of the USAAF to the Mediterranean and European theatres saw an increasingly desperate need to find a fighter escort, which reached crisis point in 1943 as losses suffered in the Tidal Wave offensive and Schweinfurt-Regensburg-Munster raids emphasised the mounting strength of the Luftwaffe. The USAAF leaders increasingly accepted the probability of bomber losses, and the deployment of the P-51B Mustang solved the problem of Germany's layered defence strategy, as Luftwaffe fighters had been avoiding the P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightening escort fighters by concentrating their attacks beyond the range of the Thunderbolt and Lightning. The P-51B duly emerged as the 'The Bastard Stepchild' that the USAAF Material Division did not want, becoming the key Long-Range Escort fighter, alongside the P-38 and P-47, that defeated the Luftwaffe prior to D-Day. As well as the P-51B's history, this title explores the technical improvements made to each of these fighters, as well as the operational leadership and technical development of the Luftwaffe they fought against.

Author : Greg Baughen
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526795353
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RAF at the Crossroads written by Greg Baughen and published by Air World. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of 1942 marked a pivotal year in the history of British air power. For more than two decades the theory that long-range bombing could win wars had dominated British defense policy. The vast majority of warplanes ordered for the RAF were designed either to bomb enemy cities or stop the enemy from bombing British cites. Conventional armies and the air forces that supported them were seen as an outmoded way of waging war. During 1941 evidence began to mount that British policy was wrong. It had become clear the RAF’s bomber offensive against Germany had, until that point, achieved very little. Meanwhile, the wars raging in Europe, Africa and Asia were being decided not by heavy bombers, but by armies and their supporting tactical air forces. Britain had never had the resources to build a large army as well as a strategic bomber fleet; it had always had to make a choice. Now it seemed the country might have made the wrong choice. For the first time since 1918 Britain began thinking seriously about a different way of fighting wars. Was it too late to change? Was a strategic bombing campaign the only option open to Britain? Could the United Kingdom help its Soviet ally more by invading France as Stalin so vehemently demanded? Could this be done in 1942? Looking further ahead, was it time to begin the development of an entirely new generation of warplanes to support the Army? Should the RAF have specialist ground attack aircraft and air superiority fighters? The answers to these questions, which are all explored here by aviation historian Greg Baughen, would help shape the development of British air power for decades to come.

Author : Ray Wagner
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344282
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mustang Designer written by Ray Wagner and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustang Designer tells the story of American wartime fighter development, including engines and armaments, as part of a nationwide program of aircraft builders and fliers, focusing on Edgar Schmued, the designer of the Mustang. The P-51 Mustang is widely regarded as the best propeller-driven fighter that ever flew. What many might not realize is that the plane's developer was a German migrant. This book tells of how Schmued created a weapon that would ultimately prove lethal to the aspirations of those who had seized control over his native land.

Author : Andrew Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472801873
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griffon Spitfire Aces written by Andrew Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modified for low-level operations to counter Luftwaffe attacks on the south coast, the Griffon-powered Spitfire XIV became the best low-level fighter of World War II. Squadrons moved to south-eastern England to counter the V1 flying bomb offensive, where daring pilots pioneered the technique of tipping the V1 over with the aircraft's wingtip to disorientate the bomb. Andrew Thomas also investigates the role played by the modified Spitfire squadrons after the V1 offensive, both in the attack on Germany and after the war in Malaya and Palestine. First-hand stories, photographs and colour profiles complete this account of the aces who flew the most powerful Spitfire variant ever built.

Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811714551
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Skies written by Nicholas A. Veronico and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual history of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II • Hundreds of photos of American aircraft damaged or shot down by the German Luftwaffe • Photos of damaged bomber and fighter planes, plus information on their crews and missions • Perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series • Ideal reference for military history fans, scholars, and modelers

Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811768139
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D-Day written by Nicholas A. Veronico and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and landed 150,000 troops—under withering German fire—on Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in a single day. In numbers and scope, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Meanwhile, some 12,000 aircraft flew above the sea, a dizzying assortment of fighters and bombers, transports, recon craft, and gliders. Taking off from air fields in England, they dropped thousands of paratroopers and even vehicles, bombed roads and German positions miles inland, provided vital intelligence, and attacked any German planes that were able to take to the skies. It was the largest single-day aerial operation in history. And yet these important—and impressive—aspects of D-Day haven’t received the coverage they deserve, having been overshadowed by the fighting on the beaches. Veronico assembles photos of both the air and sea components of the D-Day invasion, giving the sailors and airmen their due and giving modern readers a vivid sense of what this monumental day was like in the air and at sea.

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526759934
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Aviation P-51 Mustang written by Robert Jackson and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily-armed fighter able to operate effectively at altitudes in excess of 20,000ft. North America built the prototype in 117 days, and the aircraft, designated NA-73X, flew on 26 October 1940. The first of 320 production Mustang Is for the RAF flew on 1 May 1941, powered by a 1,100hp Allison V-1710-39 engine. RAF test pilots soon found that with this powerplant the aircraft did not perform well at high altitude, but that its low-level performance was excellent. It was when the Mustang airframe was married to a Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin engine that the aircraft’s true excellence became apparent. Possessing a greater combat radius than any other Allied single-engine fighter, it became synonymous with the Allied victory in the air. During the last eighteen months of the war in Europe, escorting bomber formations, it hounded the Luftwaffe to destruction in the very heart of Germany. In the Pacific, operating from advance bases, it ranged over the Japanese Home Islands, joining carrier-borne fighters such as the Grumman Hellcat to bring the Allies massive air superiority. Yet the Mustang came about almost by accident, a product of the Royal Air Force’s urgent need for new combat aircraft in the dark days of 1940, when Britain, fighting for survival, turned to the United States for help in the island nation’s darkest hour.