Where Eagles Never Flew

Where Eagles Never Flew
Author: Helena P. Schrader
Publisher: Cross Seas Press
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2020-11-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735313948

This superb novel about the Battle of Britain, based on actual events and eye-witness accounts, shows this pivotal battle from both sides of the channel through the eyes of pilots, ground crews, staff -- and the women they loved.

Wizardry for air campaigns : signals intelligence support to the cockpit

Wizardry for air campaigns : signals intelligence support to the cockpit
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN: 1428926410

In order for all applications of airpower -- including counter-air, deep interdiction strike, air landing, and combat search and rescue -- to succeed, they must be informed by comprehensive data on targets. Moreover, it would be helpful if intelligence included the intentions and capabilities of opponents. Getting signals intelligence data to the cockpit and pilots for instantaneous use on the battlefield is the objective. Signals intelligence can provide needed information, but its collection, processing, analysis, and distribution is secretive. Consequently, an operator is slow to get even minimal data. Real-time signals intelligence support to the cockpit is an on-going challenge, but it is not as cosmic or fantasy-based as some believe. Three historical examples illustrate what can be done when operations and intelligence ensure that critical data reach the battlefield in a timely fashion.

Japanese Aero-Engines 1910-1945

Japanese Aero-Engines 1910-1945
Author: Mike Goodwin
Publisher: MMP
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788365281326

In this book the authors have endeavored to remedy the notable lack of comprehensive coverage. The development of all the many engines produced by Japanese aero-engine manufacturing companies from 1912 to 1945 is explored in detail, including a full explanation of the different systems used to identify them. Furthermore, the developments are related to the aircraft in which the various engines were used, including prototypes, flying test-beds, and changes in the make or type of engine during an aircraft's operational service. In other words aircraft evolution in Japan is viewed in snapshots as it happened from the aero-engine aspect and not from the complete aircraft aspect as is featured in most publications. Unfortunately this approach necessitates numerous cross-references in the text where several different engines are associated with a particular aircraft, for which the authors can only apologize. Lastly, to illustrate the industrial background, the origin and development of each of the aero-engine manufacturing companies is also outlined briefly

The Secret Horsepower Race: Western Front Fighter Engine Development - Special Edition Merlin

The Secret Horsepower Race: Western Front Fighter Engine Development - Special Edition Merlin
Author: Calum E. Douglas
Publisher: HarperTempest
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2021-04-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781911658870

The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters. Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole. This is the never before told story of a high-tech race, hidden behind the closed doors of design offices and intelligence agencies, to create the war's best fighter engine. Using the fruits of extensive research in archives around the world together with the previously unpublished memoirs of fighter engine designers, author Calum E. Douglas tells the story of a desperate contest between the world's best engineers - the Secret Horsepower Race.

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Author: Warren Bodie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-05-02
Genre: Lightning (Fighter plane)
ISBN: 9780962935954

The definitive story of the World War II fighter which the Germans dubbed the fork-tailed devil includes line drawings, photos of prototypes and coverage of Lockheed proposals.

Hitler's Forgotten Secret Weapon

Hitler's Forgotten Secret Weapon
Author: Leonard James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
ISBN: 9781907791536

In this book, the author, the son of a Battle of Britain RAF veteran, traces the development of the He113 Wonder Fighter from the drawing board at Heinkel to the war torn skies over Britain in the fateful summer of 1940.

475th Fighter Group

475th Fighter Group
Author: John Stanaway
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472802055

Formed with the best available fighter pilots in the Southwest Pacific, the 475th Fighter Group was the pet project of Fifth Air Force chief, General George C Kenney. From the time the group entered combat in August 1943 until the end of the war it was the fastest scoring group in the Pacific and remained one of the crack fighter units in the entire US Army Air Forces with a final total of some 550 credited aerial victories. Amongst its pilots were the leading American aces of all time, Dick Bong and Tom McGuire, with high-scoring pilots Danny Roberts and John Loisel also serving with the 475th. This book details these pilots, the planes they flew and the campaigns and battles they fought in including such famous names as Dobodura, the Huon Gulf, Oro Bay, Rabaul, Hollandia, the Philippines and Luzon.