No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplaneanot even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothersa first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who foughtaand the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and conceptsaacclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplaneas revolutionary transformation of modern warfare. On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/Fechet, Major General James E. Ferguson, Homer Fermi, Enrico Fickel, Lieutenant Jacob Field manuals: Manual 1-1 Basic Doctrine; Manual 1-2 ... F-100 ; F-102; F-104; F-105(ill.) ... See Instrument flying Fokker, Anthony Fokker aircraft: D.VII(ill.)anbsp;...
Title | : | Air Power |
Author | : | Stephen Budiansky |
Publisher | : | Penguin - 2005-03-29 |
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