Archive for Items Categorized 'Military', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Leydenfrost, The Baron of Aviation Art

by Hampton and Howard Wayt

Leydenfrost was a Hungarian artist who emigrated to America in the mid-1920s with three equally talented countrymen, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre and Paul Lucas. While his friends went on to Hollywood, Leydenfrost stayed in New York illustrating books.

The Horten Brothers and Their All-Wing Aircraft

by David Myhra

WWII left the world with a number of very technologically advanced German twin-jet aircraft designs. The young Hortons were right there and made a mighty contribution.

Flying Freestyle: An RAF Fast Jet Pilot’s Story

by Jerry Pook

This is a book for real flying enthusiasts. Jerry Pook has that ability as a writer to describe his remarkable flying experiences in a dramatic way that puts you in the cockpit with him during his many varied missions.

The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs

by Richard H Campbell

Nicknamed after the codeword for the project, B-29 Superfortress bombers in Silverplate configuration were the first planes ever to carry nuclear payloads. Here’s the complete story.

Skyhookers

An Illustrated History of Hook-on Aircraft and Their Dirigible Motherships

by William Wolf

You’re looking up at an airship in flight, little aircraft buzzing around it. You blink; they’re gone! Before the U.S. Navy perfected that trick there was an already long history of exploring how to launch one aircraft from another, perchance to also capture it again.

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