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2021.
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English
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"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...
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"Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking advancements in American military aviation technology. In Area 51...
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English
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Strap into a mortar-fired parachute, a rocket powered ejection seat and fly with Col Chuck Lehman in the fastest single engine jet fighter ever built, the F-106 Dart. Feel the exhilaration of hurtling through the blue at a mile every 2.35 seconds, the "G" forces and the satisfaction of keeping the bad guys out of our airspace. You'll laugh at some of these stories, sweat out a few and ask, "How could he have been so stupid?" in others. These confessions...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, the ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which...
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"A riveting...saga of survival against formidable odds" (Washington Post) about one man who survived a World War II plane crash in Alaska's harsh Yukon territory
Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one-Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with...
Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one-Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with...
15) Airpower journal
Publisher
AU Press
Pub. Date
1987-1999
Language
English
Description
Airpower Journal is the current title of the discontinued newsletter, Air University Review. It is designed to serve as an open forum for the presentation and stimulation of innovative thinking on military doctrine, strategy, tactics, force structure, readiness, and other matters of national defense.
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Air Force recurring publication volume 10-1
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AU Press
Pub. Date
1999-2002
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English
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Air Force recurring publication volume 10-1
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AU Press
Pub. Date
2002-[2021]
Language
English
20) The combat edge
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U.S. Air Force, Air Combat Command
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Air Combat Command's (ACC's) mishap prevention magazine, written by and for ACC people, is dedicated to providing command personnel with flight, weapons and ground safety information.
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