Download or read book Bell P 39 Airacobra Pilot s Flight Operating Instructions written by United States Air Force and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The P-39 Airacobra was designed by Bell¿s brilliant engineer, Robert Woods. The plane featured a mid-engine design, intended to allow it to carry a lethal 37mm cannon in the nose. An all-metal, low-wing design, the P-39 was the first fighter to feature tricycle landing gear. The plane debuted in 1939, and proved impressive in tests. Yet the aircraft lacked a large fuel capacity that limited range, and pilots learned that its performance dropped off markedly at altitudes above 17,000 feet. Despite this, over 9,500 P-39s were built. Almost half were sent to the USSR, where Soviet pilots, flying low-level attack missions, achieved devastating results. Ace Alexander Pokryshkin flew the plane exclusively and scored nearly 60 kills. Originally printed by the USAAF and the RAF, this handbook provides a fascinating glimpse inside the cockpit of this warbird. Originally classified ¿Restricted¿, the manual was de-classified and is here reprinted in book form.
Download or read book Pilot s Flight Operating Instructions for Army Models P 39K 1 and P 39L 1 written by Ray Merriam and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Reprint 14. First Edition (August 2012). Pilot handbook for the Bell P-39K-1 and P-39L-1 Airacobra fighter aircraft. This edition includes revisions through April 15, 1944. Coverage of the aircraft and its equipment, pilot operating instructions, flight operation data, operational equipment, armament, and US/British glossary of nomenclature. 23 photos and drawings, 6 charts.
Download or read book Pilot s Flight Operating Instructions for P 39 Airacobra written by Michael S. Rice and published by . This book was released on 1973-12-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions of the original documents issued to pilots and flight crews, each containing a wealth of information on its subject aircraft.
Download or read book P 40 Warhawk Pilot s Flight Operating Manual written by Periscope Film Com and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flown by the American Volunteer Group in China known as the "Flying Tigers," the P-40 Warhawk earned a reputation for its toughness in combat. Facing odds of 6 to 1 in most combat situations, AVG pilots relied on their skill, daring and their aircraft's superior diving speed to achieve victory. By war's end the Tigers had destroyed more than 1200 Japanese planes, with another 700 listed as probables. Their own losses came to 573 aircraft. Originally printed by the U.S. Army Air Force for pilots transitioning to the P-40, this flight manual contains detailed information about one of history's great planes. Originally classified as "restricted," the manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. Some color images appear in black and white, and some pages have been slightly reformatted. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.
Download or read book Bell P 39 Airacobra written by Mantelli - Brown - Kittel - Graf and published by Edizioni R.E.I.. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a low-wing single-engine fighter produced by the US Bell Aircraft Corporation. It was the most controversial fighter aircraft used by the US during World War II. It was the first fighter in the world to have a tricycle gear and always the first to have the engine installed in the center of the fuselage, behind the driver. But his engine proved totally inadequate at high altitude, and, both in Europe and in the Pacific, the P-39, as an interceptor, found himself outclassed and was gradually relegated to secondary roles. The Bell P-63 fighter plane Kingcobra was a single-engine low-wing developed by the US Air Force Bell Aircraft Corporation in the early forties and used during the Second World War. Evolution of the previous P-39 Airacobra, launched in an attempt to correct the defects of that model, the United States Army Air Forces not evaluated never suited for combat, relegating him to the role of tow targets. As a result, nearly two-thirds of the production was assigned to the Soviet Union and about 300 units to units of Free France. He was initially assigned the provisional designation XP-39E, but the amount of changes convinced the military authorities to consider a new model by assigning it a name of its own.
Download or read book Fighter Pilot s Heaven written by Donald S. Lopez, Sr. and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter Pilot's Heaven presents the dramatic inside story of the American military's transition into the jet age, as told by a flyer whose life depended on its success. With colorful anecdotes about fellow pilots as well as precise technical information, Donald S. Lopez describes how it was to be “behind the stick” as a test pilot from 1945 to 1950, when the U.S. military was shifting from war to peacetime operations and from propeller to jet aircraft. An ace pilot who had served with Gen. Claire Chennault's Flying Tiger Fighter Group, Lopez was assigned at the close of World War II to the elite Proof Test Group of the Air Proving Ground Command. Located at Eglin Field (later Eglin Air Force Base) in Florida, the group determined the operational suitability of Air Force weapons systems and aircraft and tested the first operational jet, the P-80 Shooting Star. Jet fighters required new techniques, tactics, and weaponry. Lopez recounts historic test flights in the P-59, P-80, and P-84, among other planes, describing complex combat maneuvers, hair-raising landings in unusual positions, and disastrous crashes and near crashes. This memoir is peppered with lively accounts of many pilots and their colleagues, revealing how airmen coped with both exhilarating successes and sometimes tragic failures.
Download or read book B 36 Peacemaker Pilot s Flight Operating Instructions written by Air Force and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En instruktionsbog (Flight Manual) for B-36 Peacemaker.
Download or read book Chuck Yeager written by Colleen Madonna Flood Williams and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles General Chuck Yeager, the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound; a World War II flying ace in the US Air Force who later became a test pilot.
Download or read book Ride with the Pirates written by George Carter and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the steaming equatorial jungles of the South Pacific to the frozen wastelands of the high Arctic, often pursued by armed revolutionaries, marauding tribesmen, and the occasional corrupt bureaucrat, a team of highly skilled professionals seek to find and recover some of aviation's lost heritage. Learn what it's like to endure bone-chilling cold nearly two hundred feet beneath a dark North Carolina lake as they struggle to raise a B-25 bomber lost for over fifty years. Experience the fear of crashing your ship onto the rocks in the "fjord of death" hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle with no hope of rescue. After having been nearly kidnapped by guerillas in the Philippines, problems like running out of air while trying to get untangled sixty feet down become almost mundane. Part autobiographical, part historical, Ride with the Pirates is all adventure.
Download or read book Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County written by G. Pat Macha and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather, darkness and twists of fate have contributed to more than three hundred airplane crashes in San Bernardino County, California. Many of these accidents occurred in the vast Mojave Desert, others on the cloud-shrouded, snow-capped mountains of the largest county in the lower forty-eight states. Searches often were labored yet fruitless, even for the privileged: Frank Sinatra's mother perished here in a downed plane. The quest for an aircraft containing $5,000 in cash has become the stuff of legend. Tales of survival in uninhabited, rugged landscapes have been especially harrowing. Join renowned aircraft-crash search specialist G. Pat Macha for dozens of sorrowful, triumphant, touching and surprising true stories of those who lived through the ordeals of plane crashes--and others who didn't.
Download or read book Soviet Hurricane Aces of World War 2 written by Yuriy Rybin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviet Union found itself desperately short of fighter aircraft. Premier Josef Stalin duly appealed directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for replacement aircraft, and in late 1941 the British delivered the first of 3360 Hurricanes that would be supplied to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease agreement. Specifically requested by the USSR, the Hurricanes were quickly thrown into action in early 1942 – the Soviet Air Forces' most difficult year in their opposition to the Luftwaffe. Virtually all the Hurricanes were issued to Soviet fighter regiments in the northern sector of the front, where pilots were initially trained to fly the aircraft by RAF personnel that had accompanied the early Hawker fighters to the USSR. The Hurricane proved to be an easy aircraft to master, even for the poorly trained young Soviet pilots, allowing the Red Army to form a large number of new fighter regiments quickly in the polar area. In spite of a relatively poor top speed, and only a modest rate-of-climb, the Hurricane was the mount of at least 17 Soviet aces.
Download or read book Memoirs of an Aeronautical Engineer written by Seth B. Anderson and published by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters. This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Taking Flight written by Raquel Ramsey and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1944 Nadine Ramsey was thirty-three and she was flying the cutting-edge P-51 Mustang to New Jersey, its last stop before heading to the war in Europe. The irrepressible young woman from Wichita had long been determined to fly and the gathering storm clouds of World War II had provided an unexpected opportunity. Taking Flight is the inspiring story of a girl from Depression-era Kansas who overcame tremendous challenges and defied convention to become an elite pilot—one of the few American women to fly fighter aircraft during World War II. Taking Flight follows Nadine as she became one of 1,102 women to join the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots and one of only 303 WASPs to take to the skies in military cockpits, transporting aircraft to bases across the nation for use in the theaters of war. This book marks her milestones: the first Kansas woman to earn a commercial pilot license; among the earliest women to fly the US Air Mail; one of only 26 WASPs who flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a fighter aircraft—and the first woman to own one; the only woman in the country to instruct male pilots to fly fighter planes after the war. Disbanded in late 1944 to make way for male pilots and barred from piloting for commercial airlines, the WASPs spent the next three decades fighting to win veteran status. Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story is a profile in courage of a woman who helped clear the flight path for today’s female combat and commercial aviators.
Download or read book Hirohito s War written by Francis Pike and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war; Emperor Hirohito's war guilt; the inevitability of US Victory; the abilities of General MacArthur and Admiral Yamamoto; the role of China, Great Britain and Australia; military and naval technology; and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources, including more details on logistics, economics, POWs, submarines and kamikaze, as well as a 1930-1945 timeline and over 200 maps.
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