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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... pilots, ground crew, and bases. There was no training base—less than 1,000 pilots per year were being trained, when the ... pilot training scheme was established, sometimes by motivation, as when he induced manufacturers to risk money ...
... pilot learned how the controls moved, followed by a series of flights lasting from five to fourteen minutes, depending upon wind and weather and the instructor's nerves. After twenty-eight lessons and a total of three hours and forty ...
... 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 from the U.S. Army Air Service in 1914, but not until after too many deaths ...
... pilot, and Fred Larkins, radar observer, shot down a Yak-9, and an La-7 was destroyed by Major James W. “Poke” Little, Commander of the 339th, and his radar observer, Captain Charles Porter. The eager but inexperienced Yak pilots fled ...
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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 |