Archive for Items Categorized 'Military', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
The Handley Page Victor: The History & Development of a Classic Jet, Vol. 1
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by Roger R. Brooks
This two-volume Data File covers the 86 Cold War-era Victors produced to carry their nuclear payload higher, faster, and further than any other plane.
SR-71 Blackbird: Lockheed’s Ultimate Spy Plane
![SR-71 Blackbird: Lockheed’s Ultimate Spy Plane](https://speedreaders.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Lockheeds-Ultimate-Spy-150x150.jpg)
by David Doyle
Do a literature search and you’d think the Blackbird must be hot stuff: every year more is being published about it but the thing retired long ago. Just about all those books play nicely with this one because it has something the others don’t.
The Bomber Mafia
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by Malcom Gladwell
Planning to watch the movie Oppenheimer? A nuclear bomb!? Why had other military strategies not broken Japan’s ability to fight? Because no matter what the strategists of the Bomber Mafia thought, pinpoint hits from high altitude were not achievable in those days.
Bomber
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by Len Deighton
This is a novel but the level of research and attention to detail Deighton brought to bear could have easily yielded a nonfiction analysis of one fateful day and night in 1943 pinning German air defenses and RAF Bomber Command against each other.
Ronny Bar Profiles: German Fighters of the Great War Vol 1
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by Ronny Bar
If you deal with World War I aviation you will have seen Bar’s artwork before. He was a modeler before he became an artist so he knows what level of detail and realism to show. There are only six aircraft makers covered in this book but in dozens of variations.
Flying with the SPOOKS, Memoir of a Navy Linguist in the Vietnam War
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by Herbert P. Shippey
“Join the Navy and see the world!” The U.S. Navy is probably not the first armed service that springs to mind when you think Vietnam—in fact, many people joined the Navy specifically to avoid going there. Navy SIGINT has not been covered extensively and much info was classified for 40 years.
The Greatest Escape
![The Greatest Escape](https://speedreaders.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Greatest-Escape-101x150.jpg)
by Martin Barratt
RAF Bomber Command’s slogan was “the bomber will always get through.” But not necessarily back. Almost 45% of their aircrews died in WWII. Almost 10,000 were captured, and many kept their stories to themselves. This is one of them.
MiG-29 in PAF
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by Marek Radomski
Not a model history but a collection of color plates to show modelers what the Fulcrum looked like in its 20-year tour of duty with the Polish Air Force.
Sunbeam Aero Engines
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by Alec Brew
Within the arc from tinplate working to land speed record cars fall many interim steps, and this small book gives a thorough account of how Sunbeam got into the aero engine business and how that spilled over into record cars.
Spanish Republican Aces
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by Rafael A. Permuy López
Spain’s 1936–1939 Civil War was a complicated affair—and not discussed for decades after. One small aspect of it, the aircraft flown by foreign and Spanish pilots on the socialist Republican side supported by Russia, is presented here.
A Complete History of U.S. Combat Aircraft Fly-Off Competitions
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by Erik Simonsen
How do military aircraft make the cut to be selected for active duty? And the ones that didn’t, what would they have looked like if they had made it into service? On the latter score, this book is a winner.
Ilyushin Il-28
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by Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov
The first mass-produced Soviet jet bomber is worth a look for many reasons, both technical and historical.