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| Author | : Stanley S. McGowen |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2005-05-24 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1851094733 |
First envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci and first deployed in World War II, the helicopter is now a universal icon of modern warfare, a key component of combat planning around the world, and one of the military's most versatile and effective tools. Helicopters: An Illustrated History of Their Impact covers the development of helicopters from a concept in Leonardo daVinci's mind to the first successful machines in the early 1900s to the latest tilt-rotor designs. Time and again, in a story of constant innovation, designers answered the concerns of military planners with more maneuverable, more capable rotorcraft. With expert analysis and specific details of every significant model ever used, Helicopters shows how these once denigrated machines became essential to a variety of missions (reconnaissance, transport, attack, support, evacuation, urban combat, quick strikes behind enemy lines, and more). In addition, the book looks at the impact of rotorcraft beyond the military, including their ever-widening role in emergency medical care, police work, traffic control, agriculture, news reporting, and more.
| Author | : Michael Heatley |
| Publisher | : Holiday House |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780671075279 |
A leading authority on mankind's most fascinating way to fly presents a fullyillustrated and exhausitve text on helicopters and their history.
| Author | : Barrett Thomas Beard |
| Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This book clearly demonstrates the problems encountered by the personalities involved and their strengths in developing the helicopter for Coast Guard use. It shows how Erickson and his friend and mentor, Coast Guard captain William Kossler, undaunted by their lack of support, fought with single-minded intensity to establish the helicopter as a vital rescue tool in the service. Kossler died while the project was still in its infancy.
| Author | : United States. Air Force. Air Training Command |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : Helicopters |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John Fay |
| Publisher | : Hippocrene Books |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Patrick Allen |
| Publisher | : Airlife Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : |
Told mainly through photographs from museums, manufacturers and private individuals, this book traces the development of the helicopter from its earliest stages to the present day.
| Author | : Walter Boyne |
| Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2011-03-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1455615684 |
The helicopter was introduced to warfare during World War II. Since then, it has had a profound effect at both the tactical and strategic levels. This in-depth book by a military aviation expert examines the growth of the helicopter's importance in warfare and argues convincingly that severe flaws in the military procurement process have led to U.S. troops using antiquated helicopter designs in combat despite billions spent on research and development.
| Author | : Tim Cooke |
| Publisher | : Capstone |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2017-09-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1515792102 |
Leonardo da Vinci had an idea for an aircraft with a spinning blade, but the first helicopter only appeared in the 1930s. Carrying supplies, rescuing casualties, transporting soldiers, bombing targets: read about the many tasks of the modern helicopter in conflict.
| Author | : E.R. Johnson |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2021-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476677344 |
Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield. The U.S. has led the world in vertical lift technologies with the help of some of the brightest minds in this field--Igor I. Sikorsky, Arthur M. Young, Frank N. Piasecki, Charles H. Kaman and Stanley Hiller, Jr., to name a few--and by having the industrial prowess to make their concepts reality. This book provides a concise historical survey, including technical specifications, drawings, and photographs of every type of helicopter and V/STOL aircraft developed for the U.S. military, from the earliest examples tested in 1941 and 1942, up to the newest prototypes.
| Author | : Jay P. Spenser |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780295976990 |
Study of the lives and work of four Americans--Igor Sikorsky, Frank Piasecki, Arthur Young, and Stanley Hiller, Jr.--who, working independently but concurrently, developed the helicopter in the 1940s. Discusses the confluence of entrepreneurship, corporate practices, and government influence and fi
