Product Description: Whether watching the images on TV or in real life, nearly everyone has witnessed the riveting scene of a fast, low-flying aircraft dropping torrents of water or retardant on a blazing wildfire. Fire Bombers in Action takes the reader inside the gritty world of aerial firefighting using both still photographs and dramatic video footage of these amazing aircraft and the men who fly them...read more

Product Description: During World War II, the need for military transports prompted the modification of bombers with varying degrees of success, yet ships remained the means for moving armies overseas. As the Cold War verged into the early 1960s, some American military planners realized the need for rapid deployment of military assets to trouble spots around the world, since not all threats could be countered with a nuclear deterrent...read more

Product Description: Vintage photos from assembly line to flight line, plus exploded views, cutaway and phantom drawings from tech manuals, disassembled aircraft, rare variants and experimental models. Covers A through M models, PB4Y Privateers, C-87s and C-109s. WarbirdTech 1. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Its full potential still not explored, the model 299 crashed at Wright Field on 30 October 1935 on takeoff, with the control locks inadvertently engaged. Much as the crash of the new XP-38 Lightning several years later did not kill that promising program, so did the Flying Fortress outlive the demise of the prototype...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The B-17 pioneered the concepts of strategic bombardment. This work gives technical detail along with little-known facts and stories, as well as accounts of missions, production, avionics, development and the people behind the development of the B-17. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide to the B-24 bomber describes its concept, design, construction, and combat history. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Even after the arrival of newer fighter types, the P-40 remained in demand in all theaters. As such, the P-40 continued to pour out of factories, and by 1944 more than 13,000 had been constructed in ten variants. Author Frederick Johnsen examines the P-40's development, technological evolution, and changing roles during World War II...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The photos in this edition are black and white. Its full potential still not explored, the model 299 crashed at Wright Field on 30 October 1935 on takeoff, with the control locks inadvertently engaged. Much as the crash of the new XP-38 Lightning several years later did not kill that promising program, so did the Flying Fortress outlive the demise of the prototype...read more

Product Description: The WarbirdTech series is the first new, innovative look at military aircraft to arrive in the marketplace in the last fifteen years. Individual volumes in this series provide a first-ever "layman's technical" analysis and review of the world's most exciting combat aircraft...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)