Author: James Ira Thomas JONES
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
An Air Fighter's Scrap-Book. [With a portrait.].
Author: James Ira Thomas JONES
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
An Air-Fighter's Scrap-Book. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
Author: James Ira Thomas Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
An Air Fighter's Scrapbook
Author: Ira Jones
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 1612001513
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A classic memoir of the early days of aviation by a longtime Royal Air Force pilot, including his harrowing, exhilarating adventures in the Great War. Ira “Taffy” Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about forty victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Familiar in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had met or known by association, both during the war and in the postwar flying years. An Air Fighter’s Scrapbook recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record-beating flights—all evoking the sheer delight in flying that characterized those early years.
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 1612001513
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A classic memoir of the early days of aviation by a longtime Royal Air Force pilot, including his harrowing, exhilarating adventures in the Great War. Ira “Taffy” Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about forty victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Familiar in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had met or known by association, both during the war and in the postwar flying years. An Air Fighter’s Scrapbook recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record-beating flights—all evoking the sheer delight in flying that characterized those early years.
USAF Prototype Jet Fighters
Author: Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580071376
Category : Fighter planes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Photos of every U.S. Air Force prototype jet fighter program from the height of the Cold War to today's fighteres capable of supersonic cruise.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580071376
Category : Fighter planes
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Photos of every U.S. Air Force prototype jet fighter program from the height of the Cold War to today's fighteres capable of supersonic cruise.
Scrapbook
Author:
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Languages : de
Pages :
Book Description
Description: [Donor born in Germany 1931, lived at Lagerlechfeld airfield (20km south of Augsburg) during the war and made this scrapbook of German air aces. None of the biographies mention this air base]. This scrapbook consists of photo portraits of German pilots: There are several loose clippings in the scrapbook: military insignia, newspaper clipping award of Knights Cross of Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds to Oberstleutnant Erich Hartmann, credited with 301 kills. From the context of news report on overleaf, this was Sep/Oct, 194 (Erich Alfred "Bubi" Hartmann (19 Apr 1922 ' 20 Sep 1993), also nicknamed "Bubi" by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He claimed 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions. He engaged in aerial combat 825 times while serving with the Luftwaffe. During the course of his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his damaged fighter 14 times.
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Languages : de
Pages :
Book Description
Description: [Donor born in Germany 1931, lived at Lagerlechfeld airfield (20km south of Augsburg) during the war and made this scrapbook of German air aces. None of the biographies mention this air base]. This scrapbook consists of photo portraits of German pilots: There are several loose clippings in the scrapbook: military insignia, newspaper clipping award of Knights Cross of Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds to Oberstleutnant Erich Hartmann, credited with 301 kills. From the context of news report on overleaf, this was Sep/Oct, 194 (Erich Alfred "Bubi" Hartmann (19 Apr 1922 ' 20 Sep 1993), also nicknamed "Bubi" by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He claimed 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions. He engaged in aerial combat 825 times while serving with the Luftwaffe. During the course of his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his damaged fighter 14 times.
The Scrap Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot
Author: A. Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot is the authoritative life story of Britain and Ireland's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War; a working class hero and staunch socialist who in the skies above the Western Front combined engineering prowess, tactical initiative, and grim determination to become an inspirational squadron commander.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot is the authoritative life story of Britain and Ireland's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War; a working class hero and staunch socialist who in the skies above the Western Front combined engineering prowess, tactical initiative, and grim determination to become an inspirational squadron commander.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The United States Air Force
Author: John C. Fredriksen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Understand the growth and evolution of American air power with this overview of the history of the world's most successful aviation force. The United States Air Force: A Chronology captures the sweep of U.S. Air Force history from the service's inception to present times. Concise entries, arranged by date, touch upon military events such as victories and defeats; significant political, administrative, and technological changes affecting the service; and significant events in the careers of noted leaders. Daily occurrences are described within the context of greater historical events such as wars. The chronology covers all aspects of the U.S. Air Force and its historical antecedents (U.S. Air Service, Army Air Corps, and Army Air Force), commencing with the Balloon Corps in the American Civil War and extending through Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan. Events of note, major and minor, are listed in the order of occurrence. The book includes all major air campaigns in all major conflicts, as well as such noteworthy events as record-breaking flights and the introduction of new aircraft.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Understand the growth and evolution of American air power with this overview of the history of the world's most successful aviation force. The United States Air Force: A Chronology captures the sweep of U.S. Air Force history from the service's inception to present times. Concise entries, arranged by date, touch upon military events such as victories and defeats; significant political, administrative, and technological changes affecting the service; and significant events in the careers of noted leaders. Daily occurrences are described within the context of greater historical events such as wars. The chronology covers all aspects of the U.S. Air Force and its historical antecedents (U.S. Air Service, Army Air Corps, and Army Air Force), commencing with the Balloon Corps in the American Civil War and extending through Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan. Events of note, major and minor, are listed in the order of occurrence. The book includes all major air campaigns in all major conflicts, as well as such noteworthy events as record-breaking flights and the introduction of new aircraft.
Jet Fighters
Author: Jim Winchester
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448859824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Presents illustrations, historical notes, facts, and specifications for jet fighters, ranging from the earliest designs of the mid twentieth century to some of the most modern fighters in use today.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448859824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Presents illustrations, historical notes, facts, and specifications for jet fighters, ranging from the earliest designs of the mid twentieth century to some of the most modern fighters in use today.