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Air Force One: The Aircraft That Shaped the Modern Presidency
by Von Hardesty  Publisher Comments In the 1940s, FDR was the first airborne president, flying several times in a C-54 nicknamed the "Sacred Cow." In the 1950s, it was aircraft known as "Independence," "Columbine II" and "Columbine III" that transported Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower...
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Flying the SR-71: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
by Richard H. Graham Publisher Comments For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird takes readers along on an operational mission that only a few Air Force pilots have ever...
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Marine Air: The History of the Flying Leathernecks in Words and Photos
by Robert F Dorr Publisher Comments "THE FEW, THE PROUD"-THE MARINE AIR WING RULES THE SKIES. The U.S. Marine Air Wing began in 1917 with only five officers and 30 enlisted men. During WWII, it grew to 61 squadrons and over 10,000 pilots. Flying slow, cumbersome Grumman Wildcats against...
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Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life from Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs
by Jack Broughton Publisher Comments The story of the U. S. Air Force, and of some of its best-known aircraft, in terms of the career of one of its finest combat leaders....
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Sr-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales, and Legends
by Richard H Graham Publisher Comments Feel the Mach 3 power generated by Lockheed's incredibly fast SR-71 Blackbird! Former SR-71 pilot, instructor and wing commander, Richard Graham, presents the most intriguing SR-71 stories ever told. This once highly classified program is fully revealed...
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Question of Loyalty :mitchell
by Douglas Waller Publisher Comments It had all the ingredients of a movie drama:a scandal that grips Washington and touches the White House; bitter battles and backroom intrigue at the highest levels of the U.S. military; glamorous women who make or break the careers of powerful men; a...
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Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Era of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
by George J Marrett Book News Annotation Taking off where Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff ended in 1963, Marrett, a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, takes readers into the cockpit at the Edwards Air Force Flight Test Center. He describes life as a space cadet experiencing zero...
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The Usaaf Airman: Service & Survival 1941-45
by Martin J. Brayley Publisher Comments For the US airman in World War Two, flying was not just a test of skill, but it was also a feat of stamina, endurance and often a matter of sheer survival. And it was not just the weapons of the enemy that presented a threat to life, it was...
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They Sailed the Skies: U.S. Navy Balloons and the Airship Program
by J. Gordon Vaeth Book News Annotation In this accessibly written account, Vaeth describes the history of the annual James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, in which U.S. Navy balloonists competed throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The story of the competitors is told against the...
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Lockheed Sr-71 Blackbird
by Paul Crickmore Publisher Comments No other aircraft has approached the spectacular performance of the Blackbird. It flew at over three and a half times the speed of sound at 88,000 feet, an altitude that was at the very edge of space. It had an unrefuelled range of 3,500 miles and its...
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Airmanship
by Carey Edwards Publisher Comments Airmanship is that quality possessed by some pilots that marks them out - the difference between a competent pilot and a good pilot. It is that extra dimension of understanding and sympathy with an aircraft that makes a pilot safer, more aware of...
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The Air Combat Reader
by Walter J Boyne Synopsis An exciting anthology of some of the best writing on the topic of air combat....
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Iron Hand: Smashing the Enemy's Air Defences
by Anthon Thornborough Publisher Comments An illustrated study of aerial electronic combat in the age of the Surface-to-Air Missile. It describes the evolution of American anti-radar weapons, related jamming tactics and stealth technology as leading countermeasures to the SAM and other...
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MIG Master: The Story of the F-8 Crusader
by Barrett Tillman Synopsis An operational history of one of the most capable, versatile, and long-lived aircraft in naval aviation history....
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Snakes in the Cockpit: Images of Military Aviation Disasters
by L Douglas Keeney Publisher Comments Images of Military Aviation Disasters. Formerly classified, restricted, and never-before-published photographs combine to deliver this exciting assortment of incredible military flight mishaps....
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Vital Guide To Military Aircraft 2ND Edition
by Rob Hewson Publisher Comments A concise, highly detailed and superbly illustrated reference work to the most important combat aircraft in operation throughout the world today. With detailed text, full program and service details, plus complete type specifications, this volume...
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F-22 Raptor (Enthusiast Color)
by Bill Sweetman Publisher Comments While much of the details of the F-22 remain classified, what has been released is nothing short of incredible. Bill Sweetman fills you in on the new techniques, new materials and new machinery required to build and fly the world's most-advanced fighter....
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First Blue: The Story of World War II Ace Butch Voris and the Creation of the Blue Angels
by Robert K Wilcox Publisher Comments The Remarkable Story of a True Hero of American Aviation <BR>"First Blue" details the epic journey of an unassuming man whose strong character and desire to fly launched him into a life of drama, heroism, and accomplishment unique in his field. He...
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American Eagles #02: P-38 Lighting Units of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces
by Roger Freeman Publisher Comments In the second book in this illustrated series, Roger Freeman examines the distinctive, twin-boom P-38 Lightning's service in the European Theatre of Operations with the US Eighth and Ninth Air Forces, including photographic variants, bomber escort...
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Air Force Chief of Staff Logistics Revie
by Kristin Lynch Publisher Comments Describes a review conducted as a joint effort by the U.S. Air Force and the RAND Corporation to develop improvement options for mitigating wing-level logistics problems that began in the 1990s....
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