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2) Air Force: an illustrated history : the U.S. Air Force from the 1910s to the twenty-first century
Author
Publisher
Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing
Pub. Date
2015, c2014
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 523 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the most famous secret military installation in the world, assembled from interviews with the people who served there and formerly classified information.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels, including their planes, the formations and maneuvers of their air shows, and team member duties.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, the ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking advancements in American military aviation technology. In Area 51...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days...
10) The aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic Age of Flight
Author
Language
English
Description
Explores "the saga of three extraordinary aviators-- Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle-- and how they redefine heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage"--
Publisher
Shelter Island
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown is one of the most accomplished aviators of the 20th century. He has played a major part in the evolution of flight and set records that will never be broken, including flying the largest number of different aircraft (487)and the most aircraft carrier landings (2,407). He recalls his amazing life in this new feature-length documentary. In addition to his legendary career as a test pilot, he was at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,...
Publisher
Humanus Documentary Films Foundation
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a privileged group of college students from Yale who formed a private air militia in preparation for America's entry into World War One. Known as the First Yale Unit, and dubbed "the millionaires' unit" by the New York press, they became the founding squadron of the U.S. Naval Air Reserve and were the first to fly for the United States in the Great War.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
109 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the contributions made to the Union's efforts in the Civil War by Thaddeus Lowe and a corps of hot air balloonists who helped spy on the Confederate army, despite becoming targets in the war themselves.
14) Black wings
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the first African American aviators, examining the achievements of Bessie Coleman, William Powell, James Herman Banning, Thomas C. Allen, and Marlon Green.
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