Century Series Fighters

Author : W. D. Becker
Publisher : Inland Expressions
ISBN 13 : 0981815790
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supersonic Eagles written by W. D. Becker and published by Inland Expressions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Second World War, major advancements in aviation technology allowed the development of jet aircraft with capabilities undreamt of only a few years earlier. During the 1950s, the US Air Force placed six new jet fighters into service, which became known as the Century Series Fighters. In this publication the histories of the F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief, and the F-106 Delta Dart are related.

Author : Mads Bangso
Publisher : Tempest Books
ISBN 13 : 9781911639701
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Century Series Fighters written by Mads Bangso and published by Tempest Books. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Donald
Publisher : AIRtime Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781880588680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Century Jets written by David Donald and published by AIRtime Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title contains in-depth profiles of the six operational 'Century Series' fighters developed during the Cold War: F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief and F-106 Delta Dart. Includes type development history, variants, service record, operators, specifications, weapons, avionics and mission systems."--Publisher description.

Author : Lou Drendel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897470971
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Century Series in Color written by Lou Drendel and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ted Spitzmiller
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764340383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Century Series written by Ted Spitzmiller and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of fighter aircraft that transitioned the United States Air Force into the supersonic era. By 1952, fighter designations that started with the Curtiss P-1 in 1923, reached the century mark with the North American F-100 - thus the term Century Series. This occurred at the very point where operational fighters could exceed the speed of sound. The useful lives of the six century series aircraft that saw operational service were long and varied - one performing its military role almost fifty years after its prototype first took to the air. Even today, current production fighters barely surpass the speeds and altitudes at which these aircraft flew. The Century Series story is also one that moves past their initial operational period and into the war in Vietnam. This book includes first-hand accounts by the men who flew intercept missions in the F-102 and F-106. See what it was like to fly reconnaissance in the F-101, Wild Weasel F-100 sorties, and bombing runs in Southeast Asia in an F-105. Experience the tension of a night refueling in an F-100 or the exhilaration of strapping on an F-104 for a flight beyond Mach 2. This is their story; a chronicle of the men, machines and ideas that set the standard for a half-century of fighter development - a must read for aviation enthusiasts.

Author : David C. Aronstein
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781600867903
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced Tactical Fighter to F-22 Raptor written by David C. Aronstein and published by AIAA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher : Specialty Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9781580071116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimental & Prototype U.S. Air Force Jet Fighters written by Dennis R. Jenkins and published by Specialty Press (MN). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental and Prototype U.S. Air Force Jet Fighters examines the development of fighter airframes and engines since the end of World War II. The book covers each design that reached the hardware development stage and received an XF or YF designation from the Air Force. Sometimes the airframe/engine combination worked, as it did in the North American F-86 Sabre. Other times, technology failed, as it did in the Convair XP-92 ducted-rocket interceptor. In addition to the changing aerodynamic technologies, the evolution of offensive weapons for each evolution of fighter is also reviewed. Much of the data used in the book came from previously classified Air Force program documents. Dozens of never-before-seen photos highlight this review of Air Force fighter aircraft.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428990488
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.

Author : David W. Menard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840370478
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Centuries written by David W. Menard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A showcase of the U.S. fighter squadrons in Europe during the tense Cold War period; color photographs highlight squadron markings on the P-80, F-84, F-86 Sabre, and more.

Author : Tyson V. Rininger
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760325308
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Flag written by Tyson V. Rininger and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Flag takes the reader behind the scenes of the biggest, most complex, high-tech military exercise conducted anywhere in the world. The Red Flag exercises, which take place at Nellis Air Force Base just outside of Las Vegas, brings together the U.S. Air Force and aircraft and crews from its allies around the world for two weeks of training that is as intense and demanding as actual combat. Red Flag: Air Combat for the 21st Century offers a complete history and an unprecedented insider’s view of the fully integrated, war-conditions exercise that uses the largest combat range on the planet—the size of Connecticut—and involves every kind of military aircraft and asset, from fighters, tankers, and bombers to helicopters, satellites, and unmanned aircraft. With dynamic photos and firsthand description, the book also gives readers a close-up look at the modern and upgraded version of Red Flag—Joint Red Flag, an all-new exercise integrating live and virtual elements in a seamless campaign that challenges warfighters and tests command and control procedures, processes, and architecture.