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Air Power a Modern Illustrated History illustrated by John Batchelor
Air Power a Modern Illustrated History illustrated by John Batchelor
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
392 pages
Copyright 1979
CONTENTS
FIGHTERS 1914-1939 - Bill Gunston8
A Concept Emerges12
The Opening Rounds19
Forging the Weapons28
Birds of Prey42
The Twenties54
The Thirties60
The Monoplane Supreme66
Power for Combat70
FIGHTERS 1939-1945 - Bill Gunston74
The Eagle Ascendant76
The Battle of Britain82
The Spreading War88
The Rising Sun102
Night Fighters106
Fighters' War112
The Fallen Eagle119
The Setting Sun127
Fighter Technology: Engines130
Fighter Technology: Armament133
JET FIGHTERS - David Anderton136
The World's First Jet Fighter140
Wartime Developments146
Postwar Developments154
War in Korea162
Dead End Developments176
The Sixties178
The Present 186
The Future190
Ejector Seats194
Fighter Armament196
BOMBERS 1914-1939 -Bryan Cooper200
How the Bomber was Born204
The First Air Forces208
Engines and Design213
Airship Raids on Britain218
Aeroplanes as Bombers 220
The Bombs226
The Bomb-Sights229
The Heavies230
Smaller and Faster Bombers242
Between the Wars248
BOMBERS 1939-1945-Bryan Cooper266
War! How the World's Bombers lined up268
Structure and Design294
Armament299
Engine Development306
Radar 312
Bombs and Bomb-Sights314
Bomber Operations321
JET BOMBERS -David Anderton328
Wartime Developments 332
Postwar Developments336
Boeing B-47 Stratojet344
Europe Joins In348
New Programmes 352
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress358
End of an Era364
New Technology374
Attack Bombers386
Bomb Loads390
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Joining battle far up in the stratosphere or hedgehopping under the surveillance of even the most modern radar, today's jet fighters and bombers are indeed technological wonders with powers undreamed of in 1914, or even 1939. In this book authoritative text and magnificent drawings tell the.story of the evolution of the fighter and the bomber from the frail biplanes spotting for the rival guns over the trench lines of the First World War to the most modern jet aircraft.
The first fighters were observation biplanes, mounting duck guns and hand-held pistols, but by 1915 the fighter proper had appeared, fast and maneuverable, and with a synchronized machine-gun. The Fokkers, the SPADs and Camels were there to deny airspace to enemy reconnaissance aircraft and bombers and their role has never changed. Only the technology has changed, altering the aircraft themselves out of all recognition. This story takes the fighter to the spectacular MiG-21 and Mirage IIIC which proved themselves in the Middle East and Vietnam wars.
No aspect of modern warfare has caused as much controversy as the bombing offensive particularly the 'strategic' raids against civilian and industrial targets. And while the effects of bombing raids by biplanes and zeppelins during the First World War seem almost trivial compared with the destruction caused by the heavy bombers less than thirty years later, all the basic concepts of the role of the bomber at war had been evolved by 1918. The difference, as with the fighter, was that advanced technology enabled heavier loads of more powerful bombs to be carried further, to the ultimate the jet bomber armed with nuclear weapons.
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