AAF Historical Office Publishing, 1946. — 254 p. В исследовании описывается ситуация с боевыми планерами в ВВС Армии США в 1941-1944 годах. Даны подробные описания данных планеров, стоимость их закупок и эксплуатации, особенности их применения в боевых действиях во время Второй Мировой войны (в Тихом океане и в Европе).
Kruševac: Istorijski arhiv Kruševac, 2006. — 14 s. Utva 213 je jugoslovenski vojni školski jednomotorni niskokrilni klipni avion dvosed sa duplim komandama za naprednu prelaznu, trenažnu i borbenu obuku, modernih aerodinamičkih linija, drvene konstrukcije sa uvlačećim stajnim trapom i zatvorenom kabinom, koji se proizvodio u fabrici aviona Utva u Pančevu. Neposredno po...
Stamford: Key Publishing Ltd, 2021. — 100 p. — ISBN 9781912205157. Born in California, Raised in Georgia Aircraft manufacturers around the western world place a lot of effort into marketing their respective aircraft as multi-role or multimission. Some offer a good product that lives up to the billing. Others offer bad products and do an equally poor job at the marketing. At...
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication, 1982. ― 342 p. Foreword One of the more striking aspects of the war in Southeast Asia was the adaptation of existing weapons in the American arsenal to the peculiar needs of an unconventional war. Total air superiority presented to the United States great opportunities to support ground operations. Very early some in the Air Force...
Penguin Random House UK, 2024. — 261 p. — ISBN 9781405958004. Author’s Note Over an eighteen-year military career, I have been fortunate to be part of the Hercules family, and, as a member of the fabled 47 Squadron, to have filled three of the crew positions on the aircraft: air loadmaster, co-pilot and captain. While I have gathered all the stories you are about to read, and...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 192 p. This is the story of the Arado 234, an aircraft that on one day in 1944, in the skies above Normandy, heralded the beginning of a new era in aviation: the jet era. For more than a century, the aviation industry has experienced continual change and upheaval. Many individuals have contributed to this field of developmental aviation over the course of...
Casemate Publishers, 2008. — 192 p. Every day for nine months from September 1944, young British Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead in northern Scotland to target German U-boats, merchant men and freighters in the fjords and leads of southwest Norway, encountering the Luftwaffe and flakships every step of the way. Truly this was a war...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2013. — 234 p. — (White Series 9120). — ISBN10 83-63678-06-6; ISBN13 978-83-63678-06-7. This book presents a unique and globally comprehensive coverage of an unusual military aviation subject. This work will also help you fill out your knowledge and will be a very useful reference work. In addition to monographs of each aircraft type,...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2010. — 82 p. — (French Wings 01). — ISBN10 83-61421-20-3; ISBN13 978-83-61421-20-7. Following on from the publisher's very successful Polish Wings books, this new series covers aircraft in French service over the years. This first volume tells the story of the Latecoere 290 and 298 aircraft. These were bomber floatplanes produced in...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2019. — 352 p. On 18 December 1935 when the first flight of the Douglas DC-3 took place, few could have imagined that it would become one of the world’s most celebrated aircraft of all time, not just as a commercial airliner but also as the C-47 military transport. When production ceased in the summer of 1945, a total of 10,926 had been built. This...
Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd, 1999. — 170 р. — (Crowood Aviation Series). — ISBN 1861262051 Lockhid C-130 Hercules tells the remarkable story of the world’s most successful military heavylift aeroplane. In service since the mid-1950s, it looks set to remain an important and integral part of many of the world’s air forces well into the next century. Martin W. Bowman...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 192 p. The Mosquito was probably World War IIs most versatile combat aircraft. This book contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from many of the two-man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators. It portrays the dramatic experiences of flying in its many roles as pathfinder, night fighter, reconnaissance aircraft, precision bombing and...
The History Press, 2012. — 128 p. C-130 Hercules first flew in 1954, an easily maintained aircraft which entered service with the USAF Tactical Air Command. Ten years later the 'Charlie 130' was providing the essential logistical support in Vietnam where a new landing technique, the Khe Sanh approach, added to the Hercules folklore. Paradrops, airlift and evacuation operations...
Washington: Air Force History and Museums Programs, 1998. — 677 p. I “prayed that I might not be posted to a Training Squadron” wrote British author C.S. Lewis in his memoir of flying during the Great War. Another war later, airmen expressed the same sentiment, with many inventing any excuse to avoid a training assignment. Compared to the excitement of combat operations, most...
Mereo Books, 2013. — 594 p. Royal Air Force Coastal Command was the organisation charged with keeping the sea lanes clear around the coasts of Britain for the best part of half a century, from immediately after the First World War until the 1960s. In the decades after the Second World War, John Campbell served as a Coastal Command navigator and crew captain on Shackleton...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 400 p. At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come and gone at will, their most testing opposition provided by the British weather as the country’s...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 384 p. At the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defense capability worthy of the name. Britain had just thirty guns to defend the entire country, with all but five of these considered of dubious value. So when raiding German aircraft finally appeared over Britain the response was negligible and ineffective. Of...
London: Ian Allan Ltd, 1986. — 120 p. — (Modern Combat Aircraft 24). — ISBN 0711015759. Introduction We Search and Strike’ A one-time unofficial motto of Royal Air Force Coastal Command. ‘And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.’ Genesis Chapter 10, Verses 8 and 9. The undertaking of surveillance operations to...
Allen and Unwin, 2019. — 255 p. In March 1945 Reg Cleworth, a navigator on PBY Catalina seaplanes flying out of Darwin, went missing in action. No details were ever given about the incident that took his life, nor the reason his plane went down. For Reg's younger brother, Robert, the news came as a fulfilling prophecy. The last time they saw each other, Reg confided in Robert,...
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 114 p. — ISBN: 1841760595. A study of Blackworld Skunkworks U2, SR-71 and F-117, three military jets from the same manufacturer. It explains, in uncluttered language, the reasons why it was necessary to design and build them, the challenges faced by their Skunkworks designers and test pilots, and how these challenges were overcome. It also describes...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 758 p. In 1986 Paul Crickmore's first groundbreaking book about the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was published. At that time, the Cold War was at its height and the SR-71 was an integral element in securing crucial intelligence from all parts of the globe. The highly sensitive nature of its missions couldn't be compromised, and it wasn't until the end of...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 160 p. — (General Aviation). Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic and famous jets ever built. Assembled in secret at Lockheed's Skunk Works, the Blackbird's vital statistics remain phenomenal, decades later. It holds the airspeed record for a manned jet aircraft, operated at an altitude other aircraft could barely touch, and was a...
Blue Ridge Summit: TAB BOOKS Inc. — 1987 — 282p. — ISBN 0830683917 Introduction It wasn’t love at first sight, my meeting the PBY Catalina patrol bomber. Hardly! In that moment, I felt fate had dealt me a cruel blow and that my first flight would be my last. It seemed my short Navy career and my life would soon be over. I was standing beneath the giant wing, and alongside the...
Key Publishing, 2022. — 128 p. Between 1938 and 1948, Qantas Short Empire flying boats navigated a dramatic and dangerous period for commercial aviation. They flew the Singapore–Sydney section of the prewar Imperial Airways UK–Australia air route, introducing a new level of luxury travel to the route. However, the outbreak of war cut short this brief glamorous time and brought...
Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd, 2000. — 180 p. — (Crowood Aviation Series). — ISBN 1861263554 The Short Sunderland was the largest aircraft used by RAF coastal Command during World War Two. Conceived as an ami submarine patrol aircraft, its design owed nun h 10 the F.rtiprre (.lass flying boats built lor Imperial irwaw Its size and range allowed it to roam over van areas of...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 69 p. — ISBN 978 1 52674 421 0. From Henri Fabre's first successful take off from water and landing near Marseilles, to the introduction of a hull rather than floats by American Glenn Curtiss, to the world-wide development of huge, ocean-crossing flying boats on both sides of the Atlantic - the passenger flying boat era continues to fascinate aviation...
Air World, 2022. — 295 p. Much has been written about the famous fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe which proved so successful in the invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain and in the early operations in Eastern Europe. Little attention, however, has been focused on the Luftwaffe’s transport aircraft which played a vital role in supplying German...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2007. — 259 p. September 1941 approval was given for the formation of two long-range Air-Sea Rescue squadrons. No 279 Squadron was formed at Bircham Newton in Norfolk. In the period leading up to the formation of the squadron there had been much work done in relation to air-dropped survival equipment such as the Lindholme Dinghy Dropping Gear, the...
London: Putnam Aeronautical Books. – 1966 – 276p. - (Putnam Series) British Flying-Boats and Amphibians records for the first time in one volume the entire production of this unique type of aircraft, from the early machines of the pioneers to the huge Saunders-Roe Princesses, providing full coverage of an important era in British aviation history which endured for over forty...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 208 p. Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged a sixth and other awe-inspiring...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2014. — 82 p. — (French Wings 03). — ISBN10 83-61421-77-7; ISBN13 978-83-61421-77-1. This third title in the 'French Wings' series tells the story of the Breguet 27 aircraft in the French Air Force. The Breguet 27 was a 1930s French military reconnaissance biplane, built for the Armee de l'Air (French Air Force) and also exported to...
Children’s Press, 2000. — 56 p. The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. It carries a wide array of ground attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. Unlike other modern military fixed-wing aircraft, the AC-130 relies on...
Bytom: AVIATIK Production. — 2003 - 168р. — (Aviatik Vintage Aircraft 01). — ISBN 8389532034 After the Great War had ended Spad VIIs served in many countries and participated several wars and minor conflicts. Sometimes both conflicting parties had Spad scouts on their strength. In the years 1919-1920 reborn Poland started to re-conquer its eastern premises occupied by Russia...
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 130 p. — (Aerospace). — ISBN 0850459122. Introduction For US forces, the era of electronic warfare began in 1942—43 with three significant operations undertaken over widely separated areas. On 31 October 1942, a member of the Navy's first countermeasures team (designated Cast Mike 1 in the phonetic alphabet of the time) used, without success, an...
Bedford: SAM Publications, 1998. — 168 р. — (SAM Modellers Datafile 1). — ISBN 0953346501. The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was nicknamed "The Wooden Wonder". The...
The Aviation Workshop, 2003. — 39 р. — ISBN 1904643027. On Target ‘Profiles' are not designed to be the last word on the subject of camouflage and markings, but are an addition and complement to your existing reference material on any given subject. They are inspirational sources for modellers and aircraft enthusiasts alike. All the artwork, in this and all the other titles in...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2014. — 146 p. John French first took up flying in 1937 with the University of London Air Squadron, and this move was to signal the start of a long and varied career in flight that would see him involved in some of the most iconic wartime exploits of the Twentieth Century. Posted to Gibraltar in the midst of war, he flew sorties in support of the North...
Agencja Lotnicza Altair, 1996 ― 34 s. ― (Przegląd konstrukcji lotniczych 27). Obejmuje historię budowy i użytkowania tego samolotu. Zdjęcia są czarno-białe i kolorowe. Przedstawienie rysunku podano w skali 1/72. Chociaż istnieją podobne czasopisma polskiego wydania, to numer ten wyróżnia się doskonałymi rysunkami w skali 1/72.
Leicester: Midland Publishing, 2000. — 240 p. — ISBN: 1857800990. This is the first book to collect stories of the most important Soviet aircraft, including experimental machines from the early 1900s through to the latest Russian prototypes of today. About 150 types are described, each with data and many with extensive drawings.
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 1998. — 185 p. — ISBN 1857800834. Introduction Stalin’s domain was a fairly closed society. The rest of the world had little idea of what went on in the Soviet Union, and even after Operation Barbarossa - the invasion by Nazi Germany on 22nd June 1941 which launched what the Soviet Union called The Great Patriotic War - for several months nearly...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2002. — 146 p. — (Red Star Volume 05). — ISBN 1857801407. Introduction Just like in other countries, development of aviation in the Soviet Union did not proceed at an even pace. Years and even decades of cairn, evolutionary development were at times superseded by a revolutionary rush forward. The latter was usually understood to imply aviation’s...
Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd, 2004. — 202 р. — (Crowood Aviation Series). — ISBN 1840373504 Introduction The Antonov An-12 belongs to the category of outstanding aircraft. Its emergence was remarkably timely; it featured a good technical level and was manufactured in sufficient numbers. Easy to fly and undemanding in operation, it earned world renown not only for the...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2005. — 130 p. — (Red Star Volume 21). — ISBN 1857801997. Introduction Since its inception on 31st May 1946 the design bureau headed by Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, a talented Soviet aircraft designer, specialised in transport aircraft - an area in which it soon won international acclaim. Initially known as OKB-153 (opytno-konstrooktorskoye byuro...
Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2004. — 129 p. — (Red Star Volume 18). — ISBN 1857801822. Introduction Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov was one of the first aircraft designers to become aware of the necessity of creating dedicated transport aircraft for the carriage of cargoes and materiel. This was demonstrated by the emergence in 1956 of the twin-turboprop An-8 military transport,...
Zenith Press, 2010. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0760332398. For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird takes readers along on an operational mission that only a few Air Force pilots have ever experienced. The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, was an...
Agencja Lotnicza Altair, 1996 ― 31 s. ― (Przegląd konstrukcji lotniczych 33). Obejmuje historię budowy i użytkowania tego samolotu. Zdjęcia są czarno-białe i kolorowe. Przedstawienie rysunku podano w skali 1/72. Chociaż istnieją podobne czasopisma polskiego wydania, to numer ten wyróżnia się doskonałymi rysunkami w skali 1/72.
Agencja Lotnicza Altair, 1993 ― 28 s. ― (Przegląd konstrukcji lotniczych 15). Obejmuje historię budowy i użytkowania tego samolotu. Zdjęcia są czarno-białe i kolorowe. Przedstawienie rysunku podano w skali 1/72. Chociaż istnieją podobne czasopisma polskiego wydania, to numer ten wyróżnia się doskonałymi rysunkami w skali 1/48.
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1991. — 82 p. — ISBN: 1-85409-045-3. A collection of unpublished archive photographs portraying the development, testing and deployment of this invention, which served both military and civilian aviation needs. German Civil Airships From DELAG to DZR Early German Airships The first step: balloons The observation balloon in action Hanlein Wolfert...
Salamander Books, 1983. — 168 p. Shows reconnaissance aircraft and systems used by the world's air forces, and describes the specifications and capabilities of each aircraft. A good look at early 80s military aviation technology. Goes straight from 'spies are men in shabby raincoats and alluring women' to equations demonstrating how the distance we can see relates to height...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2021. — 270 p. — ISBN 9788365958907 North American Aviation 0-47 The North American 0-47 is an American observation fixed-wing aircraft monoplane used by the United States Army Air Corps. Book describes in the great detail the development history and service history of this overlooked aircraft. Many unpublished photos, colour profiles...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2019. — 177 p. — ISBN 9788361428303 The Curtiss-Wright AT-9 The Other Jeep The Curtiss-Wright AT-9 was a twin-engined advanced trainer aircraft used by the United States during World War il to bridge the gap between single-engined trainers and twin-engined combat aircraft. It became known as the ""Jeep"" in the United States Army Air...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 232 p. The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed “spy” jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft—and its success has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time, Clarence...
Steve Ginter, 2007. — 168 p. The lineage of Martin and the flying boat can be traced back to the PBM-4 of 1941, the Navy's last flying boat and the end of a long era of seaplanes. This book covers the complete history of the Martin P5M Marlin aircraft development, construction, systems, squadron, interior, exterior weapons, and stores. It includes Marlin losses and casualties,...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2009. — 266 p. — (White Series 9101). — ISBN10 83-89450-12-7; ISBN13 978-83-89450-12-8. Вторая часть архива находится здесь: /file/3449492/ Japanese Special Attack (Kamikaze) aircraft are well know, but not well described in literature. This book is the first in English on this subject. Details are provided of a wide selection of...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2009. — 266 p. — (White Series 9101). — ISBN10 83-89450-12-7; ISBN13 978-83-89450-12-8. Первая часть архива находится здесь: /file/3449491/ Japanese Special Attack (Kamikaze) aircraft are well know, but not well described in literature. This book is the first in English on this subject. Details are provided of a wide selection of...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2012. — 130 p. — (White Series 9116) Only one enemy aircraft has ever dropped bombs on mainland USA - and that aircraft was a submarine-launched "Glen" floatplane. This book tells the story of the design, development and operational use of the E14Y1 "Glen". Included are details of earlier Japanese submarine-launched aircraft, and of the...
McFarland, 2013. — 488 p. American Military transport aircraft since 1925 - книга о военно-транспортной авиации США. Охвачен период с 1925 года до наших дней. Подробно описаны несколько сотен транспортных и пассажирских самолетов в разное время использовавшихся в военно-транспортных целях. Каждая машина имеет текстовое описание , фотографию и схему в трех проекциях. Все типы...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 425 p. Unlike the relative uniformity of conventional warfare, the peculiarities of small wars prevent a clear definition of rules and roles for military forces to follow. During the small wars era, aviation was still in its infancy, and the US military had only recently begun battling in the skies. The US Marine Corps recognized that...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2012. — 301 p. — (Yellow Series 6131). — ISBN10 83-61421-47-5; ISBN13 978-83-61421-47-4. The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (stork) was a German liaison aircraft built before and during World War II, and even post-war in France. It remains famous to this day for its excellent STOL performance and remarkable wartime exploits. This book describes...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2012. — 301 p. — (Yellow Series 6131). — ISBN10 83-61421-47-5; ISBN13 978-83-61421-47-4. The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (stork) was a German liaison aircraft built before and during World War II, and even post-war in France. It remains famous to this day for its excellent STOL performance and remarkable wartime exploits. This book describes...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1994. — 70 p. — (Detail & scale №46). The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 2000. — 81 p. — (Detail & Scale №66) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit...
Hikoki Publications - publisher; 1996; 92 pages. Language: English The fascinating story of Germanys aircrew training schools, units and their aircraft; how they operated, and where they operated. Filled with 1-72nd scale drawings, color camouflage and markings profiles.
Florida: Classic Publications, 2010. — 97 р. — (Luftwaffe Colours 003). — ISBN 1903221158. The series "Luftwaffe Colours" by Classic Publications is devoted to a brief but very vivid history of the Air Force of the Third Reich. A beautifully illustrated complete historical overview of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945. This series will be especially useful for modelers (the books give a...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2006. — 202 p. — (Orange Series 8103). — ISBN10 83-91717-84-4; ISBN13 978-83-91717-84-4. A Mushrooms Model publication, this book has been specifically written to aid modellers building scale models. It contains many period photographs, colour photo's of surviving examples, colour profiles of the more famous WWII examples and detailed,...
Agencja Lotnicza Altair, 2000 ― 32 s. — (Przegląd konstrukcji lotniczych 39). Obejmuje historię budowy i użytkowania tego samolotu. Zdjęcia są czarno-białe i kolorowe. Przedstawienie rysunku podano w skali 1/72. Chociaż istnieją podobne czasopisma polskiego wydania, to numer ten wyróżnia się doskonałymi rysunkami w skali 1/72.
Agencja Lotnicza Altair, 1998 ― 32 s. — (Przegląd konstrukcji lotniczych 37). Obejmuje historię budowy i użytkowania tego samolotu. Zdjęcia są czarno-białe i kolorowe. Przedstawienie rysunku podano w skali 1/72. Chociaż istnieją podobne czasopisma polskiego wydania, to numer ten wyróżnia się doskonałymi rysunkami w skali 1/72.
Osprey Publishing, 1989. — 130 p. — (Colour Series). — ISBN 0850459125. Front cover Thanks to the efforts of Sir Alan Cobham, Britain established a world lead in flight refuelling. On 22 September 1934 he departed from Portsmouth for Karachi in the prototype Airspeed AS 5 Courier. A successful refuelling rendezvous took place over the Isle of Wight, with Cobham snatching the...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 272 p. The UK has some of the most dramatic landscapes for NATO pilots to exercise the increasingly important military art of high-speed low flying. It also offers splendid opportunities for photography of close-up dramatic shots taken from the hillsides and mountains of Wales, Scotland and other steep terrain within the UK. Pilots training for operations...
Potomac Books, 2022. — 270 p. The ‘Turtle’ and the ‘Dreamboat’ is the first detailed account of the race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy less than fourteen months after World War II. The flights were risky and unprecedented. Each service intended to demonstrate its offensive capabilities during the dawning nuclear age, a time when America...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 272 p. The torpedo-bomber reached its zenith in World War II, particularly from 1940-1942, with notable successes at the Battle of Taranto, the sinking of the Bismarck, and Pearl Harbor. It was the weapon of choice for both the US and Japanese in the big Pacific battles such as Midway. In the latter stages of the war, increasingly effective...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1987. — 76 p. — (Detail & Scale №23) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit...
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers, 1996. — 75 p. — (Detail & scale №44) The "Detail & Scale” series of publications is unique in aviation literature. Unlike other publications on military aircraft, this series does not emphasize the history or markings carried by the aircraft featured, instead, attention is focused on the many physical details of the aircraft such as cockpit...
Mortons Media Group, 2021. — 132 p. — ISBN 978-1-911639-72-5. One of the world's most extreme and enigmatic aircraft, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is the ultimate evolution of a long line of top secret projects which first coalesced in the form of the CIA's A-12 reconnaissance platform. From there, Lockheed's Skunk Works team developed the design to fulfil a multitude of...
California: Haynes Publishing, 2018. ― 184 p. ― (Owners' Workshop Manual). ― ISBN 9781844259900. The Atlantic challenge In 1919 Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, Inspired by this feat the Frenchman Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25?0O0 for the first aviator to fly non-stop between Mew York and Paris and by 1927 several...
NASA, Washington D. C., 2015, ISBN: 978-1-62683-025-7, 304 c. Introduction: A Cold War Necessity. Chapter 1: Designing for High Flight. Chapter 2: Aquatone and Oilstone. Chapter 3: Design Evolution. Chapter 4: The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of. Chapter 5: Life Above 50,000 Feet. Chapter 6: Flight Operations and Performance. Chapter 7: The NACA and the U-2. Chapter 8: NASA and the...
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2015. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-62683-025-7. Over the span of more than six decades, the U-2 evolved from a relatively basic, high-altitude camera platform for performing clandestine reconnaissance missions into a complex, multisensor platform that has been adapted for a multitude of civil and military roles. Variants...
NASA Publication, 2002. - 162 p.NASA SP-2001-
4525. Monographs in Aerospace History Number 25.
Among the aircraft designs that transitioned from paper to hardware during the high-speed era, the Lockheed Blackbirds hold a unique place. The A-12, YF-12A, M-21, D-21, and SR-71 variants outperformed all other jet airplanes in terms of altitude and speed. To this day, they remain the...
Agencja Lotnicza Altair, 1991. ― 25 s. ― (Przeglad Konstrukcji Lotniczych 03). Obejmuje historię budowy i użytkowania tego samolotu. Zdjęcia są czarno-białe i kolorowe. Przedstawienie rysunku podano w skali 1/72. Chociaż istnieją podobne czasopisma polskiego wydania, to numer ten wyróżnia się doskonałymi rysunkami w skali 1/72.
Self-published by Justo Miranda, 2022. — 130 p. Flying wings are inherently stealthy in nature because of their low radar cross section and able to pass through the 20-50 MHz radar defenses of the British Chain Home. One might speculate that Germans discovered the Stealth effect by chance, associated to the flying wings. Perhaps due to an unusual Freya contact or from a...
Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997. — 52 p. — ISBN 076430299X. The concept of obtaining the greatest possible span between an aircraft’s maximum and minimum speeds with a low-performing engine, thereby shortening landing and takeoff runs (now known as STOL short takeoff and landing), was an idea embraced back in 1930 by Professor Schmeidler of the Technische Hochschule in...
Headquarters AAF, 1944. — 109 p. The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a twin-engine transport aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurised high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name 'Condor III' but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 in company publicity. It was used as a military transport during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces...
Air World, 2018. — 197 p. The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict – the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was formed shortly after the outbreak of war in November 1939 by the...
Littlehampton Book Services, 1986. — 232 p. First published in 1986, 'United States Sky Spies Since World War I' is a selection of over 200 well captioned monochrome photos that try to tell the story of these types in service with the US military. The cover features a Lockheed TR-1, and indeed a lot of coverage is devoted to the U-2, TR-1 and SR-71 types but the bulk of the...
Pruzskow: Oficyna Wydawnicza AJAKS, 1994. — 102 s. — ISBN 83-85621-41-5. Flotylla Rzeczna Marynarki Wojennej (do 17 października 1931: Flotylla Pińska) – polska flotylla rzeczna wchodząca w skład Marynarki Wojennej w okresie międzywojennym, stacjonująca w Pińsku na rzece Pinie. Flotylla operowała na tzw. morzu pińskim – w dorzeczu Prypeci z głównymi rzekami: Prypeć, Pina,...
Osprey Publishing, 1991. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1855321548. This title concerns the the T-6 Texan, a major tool of the Allied pilot training scheme in World War II. It continued to serve with many air forces until the 1970s, but since then its major role is participating in airshows worldwide.
4+ Publications, 1999. — 40 p. — ISBN: 8090255914. Army co-operation flying had a long tradition within the RAF in the inter-war period. It had its source in the WW! experience of the then Royal Flying Corps in support of ground forces. After the Armistice the newly-established Royal Air Force operated either specialised aircraft like the Bristol Fighter or adapted general...
Colorado: Flying Machine Press. — 2001 — 124р. — (Great War Aircraft in Profile 3). — ISBN 1891268163 To all the Salmson pilots and observers 1 met and didn't meet, who hopefully will finally get their due. —Jon Guttman Salmson Aircraft of World War I
Fallbrook: Aero Publishers Inc., 1984. — 110 p. — (Aero Series 30). — ISBN 0816805101. New in the Aero Series! The description and analysis of the development of heavier-than-air aircraft are given. It tells about the most interesting aircraft designs of the countries of the world. Both military and civilian aircraft, aerodynamic layouts of supersonic aircraft and their design...
Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd, 2004. — 188 р. — (Crowood Aviation Series). — ISBN 1861266979 The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird remains to this day the most sophisticated manned spyplane ever built and operated. It grew from the CIA-funded A-12, which made its maiden flight at the top-secret Area 51 on 26 April 1962. The A-12 was developed into the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, but...
390 с. На английском языке. Книга, ещё недавно бывшая под грифом "Секретно" рассказывает о разведывательных полётах самолётов Локхид У-2 (ЦРУ) над территорией СССР в 60х годах минувшего столетия. Некоторые моменты до сих пор засекречены. Foreword Chap. 1 - Searching For a System Chap. 2 – Developing the U-2 Chap. 3 - U-2 Operations in the Soviet Bloc and Middle East, 1956-1958...
Antwerpen: DACO Publications, — 2004. — 82с. — (Part 21) — ISBN 9080674745 Оne of the sleekest and most elegant aircraft ever to grace the skies is the Northrop T-38 Talon. Few people will contradict that. Not the thousands of student pilots who graduated on this gracious jet to become highly skilled fighter pilots, nor the instructors who initiated them in what for many would...
Classic Publications, 2007. — 97 p. The Transportflieger was an important but often forgotten arm of the Luftwaffe, responsible for providing essential supplies and battlefield support to both the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe during their World War II campaigns across Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and finally the Ardennes and the remains of the...
London: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1995. — 225 р. — (Putnam Series). — ISBN 1557500622. The names Beech and Beechcraft are synonymous with the Staggerwing high-performance single-engined biplane, and this volume details its development and production along with that of all the company's products including the Model 18, the Bonanzas, Barons, Queen Airs and King Airs..
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2011. — 250 p. — ISBN 9788361421412 A full time member of Flight International - the oldest weekly aviation magazine in the world - Giuseppe “Joe” Picarella, in his role as the Senior Technical Artist, is responsible for the world-renowned cutaway illustrations that appear in the magazine. While his day-to-day job brings him into contact...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2023. — 248 p. - ISBN 978-83-67227-16-2 This book was written to redress this imbalance and tell the true story behind the development and operational deployment of the world’s first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft, which began 6,000 miles further east and four years prior to the momentous events in Europe, under the...
Mushroom Model Publications, 2022. — 194 p. This book was written to redress this imbalance and tell the true story behind the development and operational deployment of the world’s first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft, which began 6,000 miles further east and four years prior to the momentous events in Europe, under the guidance of the Imperial Japanese Army and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 224 p. The RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service saved thousands of RAF, Commonwealth and Allied airmen between 1939 and 1945. This fascinating account draws on first-hand interviews, photographs and official documents to reveal some of its most dramatic missions in northwest Europe, the Mediterranean and the Far East. Those shot down at sea faced...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2018. — 288 p. Mick Powis describes the novel threat posed to the British war effort by the raids of German airships, or Zeppelins, and the struggle to develop effective defenses against them. Despite their size and relatively slow speed, the Zeppelins were hard to locate and destroy at first. They could fly higher than existing fighters and the early...
London: Ian Allan Ltd, 1984. — 124 p. — (Modern Combat Aircraft 17). — ISBN 0711015535. Birth of the 'Anyplace, Anytime' Workhorse With, at the time of writing, over 1,700 ordered by operators in more than 50 countries, and built in over 40 military and commercial versions, the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, variously affectionately known as the ‘Herk\ the ‘Herky Bird’ and kFat...
Little Brown & Co, 1994. — 370 p. The onetime director of Lockheed's Skunk Works, the top-secret facility that developed the U-2 spy plane and the stealth fighter, reveals the behind-the-scenes drama involved in the development of the military's aerial technology. 50,000 first printing.
Florida: Classic Publications, 2005. — 95 р. — (Luftwaffe Colours 028). — ISBN 9903222885. Year of release: 2005 The family of books of the famous Luftwaffe Colours series The series "Luftwaffe Colours" by Classic Publications is devoted to a brief but very vivid history of the Air Force of the Third Reich. A beautifully illustrated complete historical overview of the Luftwaffe...
Agencja Lotnicza Altair, 1997― 33 s. ― (Przegląd konstrukcji lotniczych 34). Obejmuje historię budowy i użytkowania tego samolotu. Zdjęcia są czarno-białe i kolorowe. Przedstawienie rysunku podano w skali 1/72. Chociaż istnieją podobne czasopisma polskiego wydania, to numer ten wyróżnia się doskonałymi rysunkami w skali 1/72.
Barakaldo Books, 2021. — 77 p. In this publication the history of Marine Attack 311 is traced from its commissioning in December 1942 through three wars and several evolutions during which the unit made the transition from a fighting squadron flying propeller-driven planes to a modern attack squadron equipped with high-performance jet aircraft. The history was prepared...
Aeronaut Books, 2020. — 192 p. "Torpedo Los!" is the story of German aerial torpedo operations in WWI, told here for the first time by Michael Schmeelke, the leading historian of German naval aviation in WWI. The story includes the special requirements, weapons, formation, operations, airmen, and aircraft developed to meet the requirements. It is supported by 270 photographs...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2018. — 128 p. Reconnaissance aircraft have always been the spearhead of the various air forces, helping to provide the basis for any further military operations. At the time of the Cold War and before the satellite era, the use of reconnaissance aircraft reached its zenith, as the warring nations were determined to know what was happening on the other...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. — 75 p. — (Warbirds Illustrated №24). — ISBN10 0-85368-626-2. The titles in this all-picture paperback series have been carefully researched by well-known specialist writers. Each volume offers a personal selection of photographs on a particular topic or theme, and the authors have taken pains to include rare or unusual pictures highlighting...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2017. — 240 p. An alphabetical account of the part in the Second World War played by the ‘Kipper Fleet’ as it was known in the RAF. Coastal Command often lacked resources compared with other home commands, giving it its other nickname of the ‘Cinderella Service’. Its main role was defensive – that of protecting Britain’s vital sea borne supply lines in...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2014. — 204 p. The Glider Pilot Regiment, having been raised as the first element of the new Army Air Corps in 1942 and disbanded in 1957, can probably claim the dubious distinction of having been the smallest and shortest-lived Regiment ever to form part of the British Army. Nevertheless, in those few years the Regiment gained as much distinction as it...
Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd, 2000. — 228 p. — (Crowood Aviation Series). — ISBN 1861263821 Peter C. Smith tells the full story of all T-6-based aircraft in this new addition to the Crowood Aviation series. From the years prior to World War Two to the present day, he charts its training record and combat history, and describes the many variants that go to make up this...
Sandomierz: Mushroom Model Publications, 2015. — 134 p. — (White Series 9127). — ISBN10 83-63678-38-4; ISBN13 978-83-63678-38-8. An illustrated technical history of the Fouga Magister - the 1950s French two-seat jet trainer. The different versions of the plane are described and illustrated; all the changes in specification, equipment and performance are recorded. Drawings and...
SOKO Mostar, 1983. — 31 p.
The G-4 Super Galeb is a new-generation jet strike-trainer intended to replace the successful Soko Galeb/ Jastreb family in the conditions expected to prevail in military pilot training in the late eighties and the nineties. Through backed by extensive experience gained by its predecessor through seventeen years now in service with the Yugoslav Air...
Voyageur Press, 2016. — 1046 p. Руководство по летной эксплуатации SR-71: рассекреченный и дополненный справочник для пилотов SR-71 (с комментариями). Язык: английский.
AIAA, Reston, 2009. — 301 p. — ISBN 978-1-60086-712-5. In 1956, the shock of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the horrors of the war that followed were still fresh in the minds of America's leaders. When the Soviet Union exploded its own atomic bomb in August 1949, the sense of vulnerability increased, with the realization that the next surprise attack could destroy...
Motorbooks International, 1993. — 98 p. — ISBN: 0879387807. Why did the Pentagon retire the SR-71 spyplane in 1990? What has caused sonic booms over the California desert since 1991? What was the triangular craft spotted over the North Sea in 1989? In this groundbreaking book, journalist Bill Sweetman argues these mysteries can be traced to a U.S. spyplane called AURORA, the...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2006. — 352 p. This is a unique account of the development and operational use of air-to-air flight refuelling since its early beginnings in the USA and the UK to the equipment that is in use today.The author draws upon his life-long career as senior design engineer with the successful British company In-Flight Refuelling who were responsible for the...
Weidenfeld Military, 1993. — 168 p. Reviews the development of airborne reconnaissance, an important aspect of modern defence planning and battlefield tactics. Sections cover the major uses of reconnaissance, the key aircraft and sensors in use by the major air forces and in-depth interviews with those who fly the missions.
Florida: Classic Publications, 2007. — 97 р. — (Luftwaffe Colours 001). — ISBN 1903223615. The series "Luftwaffe Colours" by Classic Publications is devoted to a brief but very vivid history of the Air Force of the Third Reich. A beautifully illustrated complete historical overview of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945. This series will be especially useful for modelers (the books give a...
Florida: Classic Publications, 2008. — 97 р. — (Luftwaffe Colours 002). — ISBN 1903223481. The series "Luftwaffe Colours" by Classic Publications is devoted to a brief but very vivid history of the Air Force of the Third Reich. A beautifully illustrated complete historical overview of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945. This series will be especially useful for modelers (the books give a...
Knox Press, 2022. — 208 p. The AC-130 Gunship was quickly developed in 1968 to provide fire support for ground forces in Vietnam. Twenty-eight C-130 cargo aircraft were converted into AC-130s for night attack operations. The AC-130 was crude, ugly, ad hoc, and detested by many within the USAF, but it worked, and it worked well. Likewise, AC-130 crews were deemed unruly "biker...
California: Haynes Publishing, 2015. ― 175 p. ― (Owners' Workshop Manual). ― ISBN 9781844259696. Introduction ‘The Growler’, ‘The Old Grey Lady’, ‘Ten thousand rivets flying in close formation’, ‘The contra-rotating Nissen hut’ and ‘The Lovely Old Beast’ are just a few of the nicknames the Avro Shackleton has been ‘blessed’ with over the years. They were all terms of endearment...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2021. — 144 p. This book looks at the invaluable work carried out by members of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the course of the Second World War. Comprised of both men and women, it was a civilian organization tasked with the collection and delivery of military aircraft from the factories to the RAF and Royal Navy stations. Men who undertook the...
McFarland and Company, 2010. — 192 p. With its fleet of large transport aircraft, the United States military can put personnel and equipment anywhere on the globe within hours. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in particular, virtually every soldier, every bullet, every pint of blood, and every bite of food have arrived in the war zone by airlift. This book tells the story of...
Friedberg: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1990. — 52 s. — (Luftwaffe). — ISBN 0-88740-232-1, 3-7909-0061-3. The first. combat aircraft in the world powered by a rocket, the Me 163 B, could probably also be called the only airplane in whose development nobody could suspect what would become of it later. In addition, it is one of the very few airplanes with a completely false name, for...
М.: Майор,2002. – 64 с.
Самолеты, созданные под руководством Генерального конструктора С. В. Ильюшина, пользуются заслуженной любовью лётного и инженерно-технического состава. И особое место в довольно длинном перечне крылатых творений занимают послевоенные массовые Ил-28 и известные лишь в морской авиации дальние противолодочные самолеты Ил-38, выпущенные небольшой серией. К...
М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2002. — 238 с. Одной из важнейших задач авиации ВМФ является борьба с подводными лодками противника. Противоборство авиации и подводных лодок насчитывает не один десяток лет. За эти годы противолодочные самолеты и подводные ракетоносцы превратились в достойных противников, так как относятся к наиболее сложным и совершенным видам современной военной техники. В...
М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2002. — 238 с. — (Современная авиация). Одной из важнейших задач авиации ВМФ является борьба с подводными лодками противника. Противоборство авиации и подводных лодок насчитывает не один десяток лет. За эти годы противолодочные самолеты и подводные ракетоносцы превратились в достойных противников, так как относятся к наиболее сложным и совершенным видам...
М.: Экспринт, 2005. — 53 с.: ил. — (Экспринт: Авиационный фонд). — ISBN: 5-94038-096-4. История создания и службы немецкого самолета-разведчика. Конструкция и испытания, серийное производство и участие самолетов в боевых действиях. Обычно эти машины следили с высоты около 1000 м за переброской пехоты и танков, обнаруживали резервы, корректировали огонь артиллерии,...
М.: Яуза.Эксмо, 2021. — 336 с. ISBN 978-5-04-154273-3 Серия "Война и мы. Авиаколлекция" 1 мая I960 года. Стратегический разведчик Lockheed U-2 вылетел с базы в Пакистане с заданием ЦРУ - на высоте 21 тысячи метров пересечь СССР с юга на север, произведя фотосъемку военных и промышленных объектов врага №1. Однако под Свердловском (Екатеринбургом) самолет Фрэнсиса Гэри Пауэрса...
М.: ТАНТК им. Г.М. Бериева, 2003. — 96 с. — ISBN: 5-94141-006-9. Книга знакомит читатели с первым самолетом, созданным Г.М. Бериевым - МБР-2, ставшим самым массовым отечественным гидросамолетом. Изложена история разработки и испытания самолета, освоения серийного производства и совершенствования конструкции. Приводятся малоизвестные подробности службы и боевого применения...
М.: Экспринт. 2001. — 56 с. — (Военный Музей). — ISBN: 5-94038-016-6. Книга знакомит читателей с самолетом-амфибией Бе-12. Изложены история создания, производства и службы самолета. Описаны его модификации и даны их летно-технические характеристики. Работа снабжена большим количеством фотографий и чертежей, многие из которых публикуются впервые. Для широкого круга читателей...
М.: Авико Пресс, 1993. — 56 с. — (Самолеты ОКБ им. А. С. Яковлева) — ISBN: 5-86309-011-1 Научно-популярное издание. Изложена история создания первых самолетов выдающегося авиаконструктора А. С. Яковлева - АИР-1, АИР-2, АИР-3, АИР-4 и АИР-8, а также планеров АВФ-10 и АВФ-20. Описаны их варианты и модификации, даны технические описания с приложением чертежей. Издание...
М.: АСТ, АСТ Москва, Хранитель; Мн.: Харвест, 2007. — 528 с. — (Неизвестные войны). — ISBN 978-5-17-041728-5, 978-5-9713-5839-8, 978-5-9762-4348-4, 978-985-16-3489-3.
Книга рассказывает о самых малоизвестных страницах истории Люфтваффе — действиях дальней авиаразведки и эскадрилий специального назначения по заброске разведывательных и диверсионных групп.
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М.: АСТ, АСТ Москва, Хранитель; Мн.: Харвест, 2007. — 528 с. — (Неизвестные войны). — ISBN: 978-5-17-041728-5, 978-5-9713-5839-8, 978-5-9762-4348-4, 978-985-16-3489-3. Книга рассказывает о самых малоизвестных страницах истории Люфтваффе — действиях дальней авиаразведки и эскадрилий специального назначения по заброске разведывательных и диверсионных групп. На основе...
В последние годы о военно-воздушных силах Третьего рейха — Люфтваффе — написано уже достаточно много. Однако в германской авиации были и такие подразделения, которые в отличие от прочих старались, наоборот, как можно меньше попадаться на глаза противнику.
Москва: Редиздат Аэрофлота, 1946. — 220 с. Самолет По-2 и все его модификации широко применялись для обеспечения нужд фронта. На них эвакуировались раненые непосредственно с передовых позиций, осуществлялась связь между воинскими частями, с партизанами, доставлялись им продукты питания и боеприпасы. Самолет По-2 с большим успехом применялся в качестве бомбардировщика,...
Белорецк: Нота, 2006. — 68 с. — (История самолета №3). «История самолета» №3, 2006 г. Периодическое научно-популярное издание для членов военно-исторических клубов. Редактор-составитель Иванов С. В. При участии ООО «АРС». Лицензия ЛВ №43 от 29.08.96 Иванов С. В., 2006 г. Издание не содержит пропаганды и рекламы. Отпечатано в типографии «Нота» г. Белорецк, ул. Советская, 14...
Череповец, 2013. — 432 с. — ISBN 978-5-9904634-1-7. В книге рассказывается об истории формирования, становления и деятельности 392 отдельного дальнеразведывательного авиационного полка авиации Краснознаменного Северного Флота, летчики которого на протяжении почти 30 лет летали на Ту 95рц, одном из самых легендарных самолетов времен “холодной войны”. Экипажи этого уникального...
М.: Авико Пресс, 1993. — 24 с. — (Боевые самолеты мира). Изложена история создания одного из необычных и таинственных самолетов мира - стратегического разведчика фирмы «Локхид» - SR-71, рассматриваются его модификации, дано техническое описание с приложением чертежей. Для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся историей мировой авиации.
М.: Авико Пресс, 1993. — 24 с. — (Боевые самолеты мира). — ISBN: 5-86309-007-3. Изложена история создания одного из необычных и таинственных самолетов мира — стратегического разведчика фирмы "Локхид" — SR-71, рассматриваются его модификации, дано техническое описание с приложением чертежей. Издание иллюстрировано большим количеством фотографий и цветными проекциями самолета.
СПб.: Гангут, 1995. — 40 с.: ил. — (Библиотека Гангут. Морское оружие №6). — ISBN 5-85875-036-2. "Каталина" - самолёт, являющийся, без сомнения, одной из самых известных летающих лодок мира. В течении двух десятков лет именно эта машина определяла лицо гидроавиации многих флотов. Модель "28" От "единицы" до "пятёрки" ГСТ - "гидросамолёт транспортный" Как "Каталина" стала...
Москва: Государственное военное издательство Наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 326 с. Конструкция самолета У-2 М-11 . Общие сведения о конструкции самолета У-2. Крылья. Фюзеляж. Органы управления и устойчивости. Органы приземления. Винто-моторная группа. Подмоторная установка. Бензинопитание. Маслопитание. Кабины и оборудование самолета. Приборы. Управление мотором....
Москва: Госавиаавтоиздат, 1932. — 62 с. Предисловие к русскому переводу: О значении планеризма написано довольно много журнальных статей и брошюр, но все они касаются главным образом роли учебного планеризма в деле подготовки летных кадров и отчасти подготовки кадров авиаконструкторов и производствеников. О научно техническом значении планеризма, о роли планеров как больших...
М.: ДОСААФ, 1952. — 67 с. Альбом содержит основные чертежи и техническое описание самолета По-2, его летные характеристики, кинематические и электрические схемы, а также данные по конструкции винто-моторной группы.
Москва: М-Хобби, 2000. — 59 с.: илл. — (Приложение к журналу «М-Хобби» Армада. Выпуск №22). — ISBN: 5-94038-007-7. Самолет-разведчик, получивший обозначение Р-5, появился на аэродромах в начале 30-х годов. Р-5 стал многоцелевой рабочей машиной авиации, выполняя функции боевого, транспортного, пассажирского самолета. Все, кто на нем летал, вспоминали Р-5 как надежного, прочного...
Москва: Оборогиз, 1958. — 79 с. Предисловие Альбом основных сочленений и ремонтных допусков самолета Як-12Р составлен на основании серийных чертежей, расчетов на прочность, материалов статических испытаний и опыта эксплуатации самолета. В альбоме приведены расчетные (разрушающие) нагрузки на основные узлы самолета в виде векторов сил, приложенных непосредственно к узлу, с...
М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2001. — 96 с.: ил. — (Знаменитые самолеты). — ISBN: 5-17-009743-3; 5-271-02439-3. В данном издании приведены сведения о самом распространенном в мире базовом патрульном самолете Локхид Р-3 «Орион», его модификациях и эксплуатации вооруженными силами разных государств. Книга рассчитана как на специалистов, так и на широкий круг читателей, интересующихся...
М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2001. — 178 с. — (Знаменитые самолеты). — ISBN: 5-17-006331-8, 5-271-01751-6
В книге рассказывается о самом быстром на сегодняшний день самолете, разработанном под руководством Келли Джонсона. Подробно представлены история создания, эксплуатации и боевого применения самолетов этого типа в ЦРУ и ВВС США. Дается техническое описание машины и сведения о всех...
М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2003. — 173 с. — ISBN 5-17-015059-8, 5-271-04599-4, 0-00-472461-5. В книге "Х-планы" дается анализ таинственной истории самолетов-шпионов, новейших авиационных разработок и так называемых "черных программ" ВВС США. Авторы рассказывают о том, что происходило на самом деле в этом мире государственных секретов. Они поднимают завесу таинственности, окружающую мир...
Пер. — Little, Brown and Company, 2012. — 262 с. Оригинал "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed" От разработки U-2 до малозаметного истребителя, это впервые рассказываемая история о том, что происходило за кулисами борьбы за господство в воздухе. Это подлинная история Skunk Works – самого секретного и успешного аэрокосмического подразделения в Америке. Как сказал...
Пер. — Little, Brown and Company, 2012. — 262 с. Оригинал "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed". От разработки U-2 до малозаметного истребителя, это впервые рассказываемая история о том, что происходило за кулисами борьбы за господство в воздухе. Это подлинная история Skunk Works – самого секретного и успешного аэрокосмического подразделения в Америке. Как...
Киев: Авиа-Ретро, 2000. - 52 с.
Книга посвящена первому советскому тактическому самолету радиоэлектронной борьбы Як-28ПП. В популярном виде изложены основные понятия и краткая история радиоэлектронной борьбы, виды помех, история создания и применения самолета, подробно описана его конструкция. Приведены чертежи в масштабе 1/72 (деталировка 1/36), 47 черно-белых и 17 цветных...
М.: Авико Пресс, 1993. - 57 с. Серия "Самолеты ЭМЗ им. В. М. Мясищева"
Изложена история создания высотного самолета М-17, разработанного в сверхсекретном ранее ОКБ, возглавляемом В.М. Мясищевым. Впервые информация об этом самолете идет без грифа «секретно». Рассмотрены модификации самолета, дано техническое описание с приложением чертежей. Издание иллюстрировано большим...
Самара: Авико Пресс, 2000. — 44 с. От авторов: Представлять фирму «Боинг», пожалуй, нет необходимости — это одно из самых громких имен в истории авиации. Под этой маркой выпускались истребители, находившиеся на вооружении в период между первой и второй мировыми войнами, тяжелые бомбардировщики, последний из которых — В-52 — у нас в былые времена именовали не иначе как «большой...
М.: Авико Пресс, 1994. — 48 с. — (Самолеты ТАНТК им. Г.М. Бериева). — ISBN: 5-86309-032-4. В очередном выпуске, посвященном самолетам ТАНТК им. Г.М. Бериева, рассказывается о первом отечественном корабельном разведчике КОР-1. Изложена история создания самолета, даны его технические характеристики. Издание иллюстрировано большим количеством ранее не публиковавшихся фотографий и...
London: Almark Publications, 1972. — 68 с. — ISBN 0 85524 064 4. Anson, несмотря на его многолетнюю службу, нельзя назвать гламурным самолетом. Однако за свою долгую карьеру он служил во всех возможных командованиях Королевских ВВС, во многих иностранных военно-воздушных силах и летал во многих частях мира под гражданской регистрацией. Avro Anson, хорошо известный как «Верная...
Минск: Харвест, 1999. - 444 с.
Второй том справочного издания серии «Военная техника» посвящен самолетам специального назначения (самолеты-разведчики, самолеты ДРЛО, самолеты радиоэлектронной борьбы, противолодочные самолеты, самолеты береговой охраны) и военно-транспортным самолетам, состоящим в настоящее время на вооружении различных стран мира. По каждому из 78 самолетов,...
Мн.: Харвест, 1999. — 448 с. — (Военная техника). — ISBN: 985-433-481-3. Втором том справочного издания серии «Военная техника» посвящен самолетам специального назначения (самолеты-разведчики, самолеты ДРЛО, самолеты радиоэлектронной борьбы, противолодочные самолеты, самолеты береговой охраны) и военно-транспортным самолетам, состоящим в настоящее время на вооружении различных...
М.: Цейхгауз, 2007. — 60 с.: ил. — (Экспринт: Авиационный фонд). — ISBN 978-5-9771-0033-5. Иллюстрированное издание посвящено истории создания и эксплуатации самолета Ил-18. В книге рассматриваются модификации военного и специального назначения, описана история применении Ил-18 за рубежом. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей, интересующих историй отечественной авиации.
М.: Цейхгауз, 2007. — 60 с.: ил. — (Экспринт: Авиационный фонд). — ISBN 978-5-9771-0033-5. Иллюстрированное издание посвящено истории создания и эксплуатации самолета Ил-18. В книге рассматриваются модификации военного и специального назначения, описана история применении Ил-18 за рубежом. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей, интересующих историй отечественной авиации.
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