Beyond the Wild Blue (2nd edition): A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-2007Macmillan, 2007/06/26 - 576 ページ From the most important leaders and the most courageous victories to the earliest machines of flight and the most advanced Stealth technology, Walter J. Boyne's Beyond the Wild Blue presents a fascinating look at 50 turbulent years of Air Force history. |
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... aircraft by the Allies. American aircraft designers were still building to the almost naive specifications of the prewar HIAD—Handbook of Instructions for Aircraft Designers—and blithely ignoring the lessons being taught daily in ...
... aircraft of the period, which had the engine mounted directly behind the pilot. These aircraft, slow and prone to stall, were literal death traps in a crash, when the engine would tear loose and crush the pilot. (Pushers were banned ...
... aircraft. Very Heavy Bombardment [VHB] groups, equipped with Boeing B-29s, had forty-five aircraft and 2,078 men on establishment. A Heavy Bombardment [HB] group of Boeing B-17s or Consolidated B-24s had seventy-two aircraft and 2,261 ...
... aircraft mechanics departed the service. Where in wartime as many as 50 or 60 percent of the combat aircraft had been ready, the number now averaged about 18 percent, and that only because so many of the airplanes were brand-new and ...
... aircraft: three North American T-6 trainers and thirteen liaison aircraft—five Piper L-4s and eight Vultee (Stinson) L-5s, none fitted with armament. The North Korean assault was reminiscent of the later days of the Soviet advance ...
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19531961 | 99 |
5 The many facets of war | 145 |
four major commands | 193 |
7 Change after vietnam | 225 |
8 Leadership doctrine and technology after vietnam | 253 |
11 Terror and response | 349 |
12 Assessing problems and facing challenges | 367 |
Appendix one | 391 |
Appendix two | 395 |
Appendix three | 399 |
Appendix four | 425 |
Bibliography | 433 |
A chronology of aerospace power since 1903 | 439 |