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

By the Bomb’s Early Light

by Paul Boyer

The Bomb had a fallout beyond the physical destruction it wrought. Whatever lessons were learned came at a terrible price. The book examines its impact on the American psyche and policy-making from the trivial to the sublime.

Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation

by Richard Edwards and Peter Edwards

Higher, faster, further. This book traces the successes and failures of the men and women—and even the industry as a whole—that advanced aviation.

Secret US Proposals of the Cold War: Radical Concepts in Military Aircraft

by Jim Keeshen

A very different look at aircraft proposals: photos of the models and illustrations that were created to demonstrate the ideas to planners and prospective buyers.

Negative Gravity:  A Life of Beatrice Shilling 

by Matthew Freudenberg

This aeronautical engineer solved a vexing problem in a famous WWII aero engine, raced motorcycles, had a long string of letters after her name, but resolutely marched to her own beat—which is why today few remember her!

Northrop Flying Wings

by Graham M. Simons

What occupied Jack Northrop’s mind in the 1920s would take until the late 1980s to be fully realized. Being ahead of one’s time is a difficult enough cross to bear; add to that financial woes, political bickering, a military that can’t make up its mind—and life becomes a drag. And drag is the very thing Northrop hated.

German Air Projects 1935–1945: Attack, Multi-Purpose and Other Aircraft

by Marek Ryś

An assortment of highly exotic machinery illustrates innovative approaches to engineering problems. Some seem to be answers to questions no one asked, others are task-specific adaptations of already existing apparatus.

America’s Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG

by Gaillard R. Peck, Jr.

For ten years the U.S. Air Force secretly trained Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps fighter aircrews against actual Soviet MiG jet fighters. Written by the man who initiated the program this book covers everything from fighting the bureaucracy to fighting the enemy.

Borneo Boys: RAF Helicopter Pilots in Action

by Roger Annett

Terrorists, rebels, border conflicts, dubious alliances—sounds like everyday modern news. This book revisits a long forgotten conflict from 50 years ago. For once, it turned out well.

Blue Moon Over Cuba

by William B. Ecker & Kenneth V. Jack

The title may not sound like it but this book reads like a thriller and, being written by people who were there, it can hardly be topped for authenticity.