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Aviation News, Mini-monograph - Roger Lindsay - Th e Vickers Varsity (1983).pdf

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Squadron - Military Aircraft 5002 - P. Stevens, Lo u Drendel - F-101 Voodoo (1985).jpg

When The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was formed on 21 March 1946, it included one group of P-51 Mustangs. The Mustang was the first really successful long range bomber escort, and World War II had proven the necessity of providing bombers with fighter protection. The postwar Air Force was about to leap into the jet age, and it was obvious to SAC Commander General George C Kenney that SAC would need a long range jet fighter to escort the B-47 Stratojet which was soon to become operational. Since existing jet fighters were of limited range, experimental development contracts were awarded to McDonnell (XF-88) and Lockheed (XF-90) in June of 1946 to develop a heavy long range 'Penetration* fighter. Neither experimental fighter had flown by mid-1948, when President Harry S Truman and his Secretary of Defense, James V Forrestal endorsed plans that placed heavy emphasis on SAC Atomic Bombing capability as a deterrent force.
On 20 October 1948, six months behind schedule, the initial XF-88 prototype (46-525) was rolled out. Powered by a pair of 3,0001b thrust Westinghouse J-34-WE-13 turbojet engines, it was flown for the first time nine days later. Maximum speed was 641 mph. The'six month delay had been caused by a complete redesign of the wing, providing the XF-88 with a thirty-five degree swept wing instead of the straight wing of the original design proposal, and changes in the air intakes.
On 16 December 1948 McDonnell was advised to cease XF-88 development, and prepare a detailed accounting of funds expended. USAF cancellation of contracts for 239 airplanes, worth 300 million dollars followed shortly. The Air Force had decided to spend its increasingly meager postwar budget making modifications to their fleet of operational Convair B-36s and Boeing B-50s, and to purchase additional B-36s. Fiscal Year 1950 (FY 50) money which had been allocated for F-88 production was used to buy North American F-86D Sabre all weather interceptors, which would 'defend America from Russian bombers'.
The appearance of Russian MiG-15 jet fighters over Korea during the fall of 1950 led to a reevaluation of the SAC fighter escort equation. SAC B-29s — one of the Atomic bombers which were supposed to deter the Soviets — proved to be virtually defenseless against the MiG-15 and were being shot down left and right over North Korea by the new Soviet jet fighter. And it was just as obvious that F-80 Shooting Stars and F-84 Thunderjets couldn't stand up against the MiG. SAC efforts to develop a parasite fighter (McDonnell XF-85 Goblin), or to try to drag along a fighter escort via wingtip-to-wingtip hookups had proven impractical. Clearly, SAC needed a long range supersonic bomber escort. The F-88 program was hurriedly reinstated.

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Squadron - Military Aircraft 5002 - P. Stevens, Lo u Drendel - F-101 Voodoo (1985).pdf

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Aviation News, Mini-monograph - Chris Ashworth - A vro York in RAF service 1942-1957 (1983).jpg

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Aviation News, Mini-monograph - Chris Ashworth - A vro York in RAF service 1942-1957 (1983).pdf

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Crowood Aviation Series - Duncan Curtis - F-86 Sab re (2000).jpg

The author has a lifelong interest in the Sabre and has contributed to many restoration projects. The Sabre was widely flown by Western air forces as far apart as the UK, Australia and its native USA. This book describes all variants and models.

Kultowy samolot wojny Koreańskiej, niszczyciel Migów 15

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Crowood Aviation Series - Duncan Curtis - F-86 Sab re (2000).pdf

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Osprey - Aircraft of the Aces 72 - Warren Thompson - F-86 Sabre Aces of the 4th Fighter Wing (2006).jpg

Military Aviation - Osprey - Aircraft of the Aces 72 - Warren Thompson...son - F-86 Sabre Aces of the 4th Fighter Wing 2006.jpg

The entry of the United State’s premier jet interceptor into the Korean War was triggered by the ever-increasing presence of the Soviet-built MiG-15 south of the Yalu River. The possibility of the USAF losing air supremacy over the Korean Peninsula was unacceptable. The 4th Fighter Wing got the call for combat in Korea. They were made up of a combination of new pilots right out of jet training and the older combat veterans of World War II vintage. This combination of pilot types wrote and re-wrote the text books on jet warfare. Of the 40 jet aces that the war produced, the 4th Wing boasted 24 of them. They also were the dominating MiG killer outfit with the USAF.

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Naval Fighters Series 15 - Steve Ginter - North Am erican Rockwell T-2 Buckeye (1987).jpg

Another in this highly respected series which forms a comprehensive guide to fighter aircraft (and many other types) operated by the US Navy and US Marine Corps in the years since World War II. Each is an extensively illustrated guide to markings carried by each unit operating the type in question and has drawings which will be invaluable for both historian and modeller. The North American T-2 Buckeye was the United States Navy's intermediate training aircraft, intended to introduce Student Naval Aviators to jets. It entered initial service in 1959. Missing pages: 30-33.

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Naval Fighters Series 15 - Steve Ginter - North Am erican Rockwell T-2 Buckeye (1987).pdf

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Naval Fighters Series 40 - Corwin Corky Meyer - Gr umman F11F Tiger (1997).jpg

The Navy's first supersonic fighter, 287 B&W & 4 color photos, 52 B&W drawings. Squadron service history of the Tiger including their most famous unit, the Blue Angels. Plastic model kits are reviewed. 5 pages of black and white drawings illustrating Tiger markings.

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Naval Fighters Series 40 - Corwin Corky Meyer - Gr umman F11F Tiger (1997).pdf

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Osprey - Colour Series - Peter Steinemann - Asian Airpower (1989).jpg

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Schiffer Military History 52 - Hans-Peter Dabrowsk i - Heinkel HE 100; World Record and Propaganda Ai rcraft (1991).jpg

Military Aviation - Schiffer Military History 52 - Hans-Peter Dabrowsk... HE 100 World Record and Propaganda Aircraft 1991.jpg

During the late 1930s the He 100 was the fastest aircraft, yet was used only for propaganda purposes.

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Schiffer Military History 52 - Hans-Peter Dabrowsk i - Heinkel HE 100; World Record and Propaganda Ai rcraft (1991).pdf

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William M. Leary - Anything Anywhere, Anytime; Com bat Cargo in the Korean War (2002).jpg

Korean War Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Title is from a quotation, spoken by William H. Tunner in 1948. Chronicles the role of the Combat Cargo Command during the Korean War under the command of Major General Tunner. Contains copyright material.

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William M. Leary - Anything Anywhere, Anytime; Com bat Cargo in the Korean War (2002).pdf

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Service Department - File service Bulletin B-24 ( 1944).jpg

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Service Department - File service Bulletin B-24 ( 1944).pdf

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Liberator Job Sheet manual. Part 6 (1944).jpg

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Liberator Job Sheet manual. Part 6 (1944).pdf

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Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen - Der Rot e Kampfflieger (1917).jpg

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Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen - Der Rot e Kampfflieger (1917).pdf

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John Lloyd - ABC of Aircraft of World War One (195 7).jpg

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John Lloyd - ABC of Aircraft of World War One (195 7).pdf

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Phantom II Accident Investigation Workbook (1967).jpg

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Phantom II Accident Investigation Workbook (1967).pdf

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Manfred Griehl - German Short-range Reconnaissance Planes 1930-1945 (1989).jpg

Covers Hs 126, Bf 110, Me 262, Ju 88, Bf 109, Bv 141, Fw 189 and others

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Manfred Griehl - German Short-range Reconnaissance Planes 1930-1945 (1989).pdf

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NC-4 50th Anniversary Committee - The First Flight Across The Atlantic, May 1919 (1969).jpg

Commander Towers had been, since 1914, the driving force and guiding genius of the plan to cross the Atlantic in an American airplane. NC-3 entered harbor of Ponta Delgada in the Azores on May 19, 1919, after Towers and his crew had sailed 205 miles through varying sea conditions. On the 18th, weather was still so bad that Read and his men were forced to stay in Horta. In spite of gala celebrations and congratulatory messages from around the world, Read was concerned. There had been no word of Towers. On top of that, disturbing news came through from Canada. The British had made their move. Stampeded by Read's successful flight to the Azores, Hawker and Grieve set out to head off the Americans. During the afternoon, they had taken off from St. John's, jettisoning their Sopwith's landing gear to gain speed for the run to Ireland. An hour later, Raynham and Morgan tried to follow but their Martinsyde couldn't make it off the field. They crashed and Morgan was seriously injured. By the next day, Hawker and Grieve had vanished over the North Atlantic. In view of the gallant effort, all England mourned and Lord Northcliffe donated the $50,000 as a consolation prize to the flyers' widows. On the 19th of May, a U.S. Marine battery stationed in the hills west of Ponta Delgada sighted something out to sea. As the destroyer Harding moved to lend assistance, John Towers stood in the heaving remnants of the NC-3 and shouted, "Stand off! We're going in under our own power!" He and his crew had sailed the cracked and broken boat 205 miles, backwards, through violent seas to their destination. He didn't need help now. In spite of Towers' fantastic achievement, LCdr. Read was the popular hero. And so it came to be that when the NC-4 continued on to Lisbon and thence to England, Towers was not on board. Now, when a fleet commander has his ship shot out from under him, he transfers his flag to another. The circumstance was parallel in Towers' case. Roosevelt thought so. But Josephus Daniels did not agree. Even when the question was raised on the floor of Congress, Secretary Daniels stood fast in his conviction that since Read had made it to the Azores in the NC-4, he should continue as her sole commander. Towers was forbidden even to ride along as a passenger; he was ordered to proceed to Plymouth aboard a destroyer. It was a bitter pill for the man who was Commander of U.S. Seaplane Division One, a chief planner and organizing genius of the expedition, and it was a keen disappointment to the other members of the group, including Albert Read.

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