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  • Royal Flying Corps Technical Notes
    Patrick Ellam
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    22,90 €

  • Winged Warfare
    William A. Bishop / William aBishop
    An ace over the Western Front-in his own wordsThe Canadian author of this book, William Bishop, volunteered for imperial service as a cavalryman as the Great War called its colonial men to the colours. A brief encounter with aircraft-the cavalry of the clouds-and a prolonged encounter with mud persuaded him that his war should instead be fought in the skies with the RFC. Bishop...
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    25,64 €

  • Airpower and the Evacuation of Kham Duc (USAF Southeast Asia Monograph Series Volume V, Monograph 7)
    Alan L. Gropman / Office of Air Force History / Raymond B. Furlong
    Originally published in 1976. This narrative describes the evacuation of more than 1,400 American soldiers, Marines, and airmen, and Vietnamese men, women, and children from the Kham Duc Special Forces camp in southern I Corps on 12 May 1968. It treats the geographical and topographical setting, the threat to the camp posed by two regiments of the North Vietnamese Army, and the...
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    16,30 €

  • Airborne Operations
    Center of Military History / U.S. Department of the Army / U.SDepartment of the Army
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    11,95 €

  • Silver Wings. Golden Valor
    Air Force History and Museums Program
    Originally released in 2006. Contains papers from a symposium on the Korean War held at the U.S. Congress on June 7, 2000. Records the reminiscences and perspectives of veterans and historians participating in the symposium. 3 ...
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    14,04 €

  • Coalition Air Warfare in the Korean War 1950-1953
    Air Force History Museums Program
    First published in 2005. Contains papers from a symposium in commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean War. Focuses on contributions made by the armed forces of the United States and its allies to the air warfare during the Korean War. ...
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    37,42 €

  • Command and Leadership in the German Air Force (USAF Historical Studies no. 174)
    Richard Suchenwirth / USAF Historical Division
    This is a very high quality reprint of a 1969 study written by Professor Richard Suchenwirth for the USAF Historical Division. ...
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    74,41 €

  • Command and Control and Communications Structures in Southeast Asia (The Air War in Indochina Volume I, Monograph I)
    Air University / Airpower Research Institute / John L. Lane / John LLane
    This is a reprint of a study published by the Air University in 1981. ...
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    30,18 €

  • From Runway to Orbit
    Curtis L. Peebles / Curtis LPeebles / Kenneth W. Iliff / Kenneth WIliff / NASA History Office
    NASA SP 2004-4109. NASA History Series. Presents the memoirs of Dr. Kenneth W. Iliff, the retired Chief Scientist of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. He worked at NASA from 1962-2002. Reprint of 2004 publication. ...
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    62,84 €

  • Toward Mach 2
    NASA History Office
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    27,40 €

  • Touching History
    Lynn Spencer
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    17,16 €

  • The Praetorian STARShip
    Jerry L. Thigpen
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    105,44 €

  • A Need to Know
    Air University Press / John T. Farquhar
    More than a tool of policy makers to gather intelligence, Air Force reconnaissance efforts shaped early Cold War doctrine and war planning. Dr. Farquhar argues that a lack of information on Soviet strategic capabilities dominated the organization, operational planning, and equipment of the postwar Air Force. To support his assertion, Farquhar traces the development of aerial re...
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    20,38 €

  • Airpower Leadership on the Front Line
    Air University Press / Douglas A. Cox
    Colonel Cox examines the command of Lt Gen George H. Brett in his wartime assignments. General Brett's leadership did not take him to four stars, why? Cox looks at the reasons why he was not promoted, especially, as he began his war time service second in command to Gen Henry 'Hap' Arnold. In his examination, first published in 2004, Cox shows the reader Brett's outstanding lea...
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    18,66 €

  • The Praetorian STARShip
    Air University Press / James L. Hobson / Jerry L. Thigpen
    Through the eyes and ears of Jerry L. Thigpen, the story of the Combat Talon sees the light of day. Based on thorough research, with a mind to details, Thigpen tells the story of how the Combat Talon became the weapon of choice in long-range, clandestine operations. Combining the chronological and thematic approaches, this book begins with a historical background that opens wit...
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    68,69 €

  • WASPs of WWII
    Ben R. Games / Ben RGames
    Because all records of the WASP’s efforts were classified and sealed for 35 years, many in this country are unaware of their work as military pilots during WWII. These women were pioneers and the expertise they demonstrated in successfully flying every type of military aircraft, from the fastest fighters to the heaviest bombers, blazed a trail for women of future generations.Le...
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    12,43 €

  • The United States Air Force
    John Fredriksen
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    135,78 €

  • U-2 Dragon Lady Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    United States Air Force
    Conceived during the dark days of the Cold War, the U-2 is a single-engine, single-seat, surveillance aircraft. Designed by aeronautical engineer 'Kelly' Johnson, the plane was used by the C.I.A. to photograph installations deep inside Soviet Russia and remains in use by the U.S. Air Force. Known as the 'Dragon Lady', the U-2 was originally highly classified. Its existence rema...
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    34,33 €

  • F-104 Starfighter Pilot’s Flight Operating Instructions
    NASA / United States Air Force
    Created by famed Lockheed designer Kelly Johnson, the F-104 Starfighter was designed to compete with Soviet Mig-15s. Equipped with a huge and powerful J79 engine, the aircraft could reach speeds well in excess of Mach 2.0, while its thin, trapezoidal wing provided extremely low drag with terrific acceleration and rate of climb. Unforgiving and sensitive to control inputs, the F...
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    24,90 €

  • F-104 Starfighter Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions
    NASA / United States Air Force
    Created by famed Lockheed designer Kelly Johnson, the F-104 Starfighter was designed to compete with Soviet Mig-15s. Equipped with a huge and powerful J79 engine, the aircraft could reach speeds well in excess of Mach 2.0, while its thin, trapezoidal wing provided extremely low drag with terrific acceleration and rate of climb. Unforgiving and sensitive to control inputs, the F...
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    31,83 €

  • The Air Campaign
    John A. Warden
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    50,62 €

  • 7 December 1941
    Leatrice R. Arakaki
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    58,34 €

  • Roswell Report
    James McAndrew
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    58,38 €

  • ULTRA and the Amy Air Forces in World War II
    Diane P. Putney / Diane PPutney / Office of Air Force History / United States Air Force
    During World War II, the American and British intercepted and read hundreds of thousands of their enemies’ secret military and diplomatic message transmitted by radio. ULTRA was the designation for the signals intelligence derived from German radio communications encrypted by the ENIGMA cipher machine. At the British Government Code and CipherSchool at BletchleyPark, British an...
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    29,67 €

  • Roswell Report
    James McAndrew / U.S. Air Force
    Originally published by the United States Force in 1997. 3 ...
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    28,37 €

  • The Air Campaign
    John A. Warden
    In the short history of air warfare, no nation with superior air forces has ever lost a war to the force of enemy arms. In itself, however, air superiority no longer guarantees victory. Planning the aerial dimension of war must of necessity explore the complicated connection between air superiority and triumph in war. 'The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat' focuses on the use o...
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    21,57 €

  • 7 December 1941
    John R. Kuborn / Leatrice R. Arakaki / Pacific Air Force Office of History
    An almost exhaustive volume of literature has described and analyzed the Japanese attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Yet despite the key role played by Japanese dominance of the air space over Oahu, little has been published on the role of the Army Air Forces and its unpreparedness to accomplish it air defense mission. In addition, too few ar...
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    28,34 €

  • New England Warplanes
    Harold A Skaarup
    This aviation handbook is designed to be used as a quick reference to the classic military heritage aircraft that have been restored and preserved in the Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. The aircraft include those fl own by members of the US Air Force, the US Navy, the US Army, the US Marine Corps, the US Coast Guard, the Air and Army Nat...
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    32,97 €

  • The Russian Air Force in the Eyes of German Commanders
    Walter Schwabedissen
    When Germany initiated Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union in April 1941, the Soviet air forces were inferior to the Luftwaffe in virtually every respect save numerical strength. By 1944-1945, however, Soviet air power exercised almost uncontested air superiority. How and in what timeframe did this dramatic turnaround occur? This question is answered in 'The Russian A...
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    56,41 €

  • Over the West Front
    'Contact' / 'Spin'
    Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalryby 'Spin'Cavalry of the Cloudsby 'Contact'Air Combat over the trenches by those who foughtThe first hand accounts of the experiences of men in time of war always make fascinating reading. Their stories are, of course, always as varied as the individuals concerned and the eras to which they belonged, whether they were soldiers, sailors or airm...
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    27,75 €