Product Description: Although it was originally intended to provide the USAF with a lightweight fighter, in the end the Northrop F-5 had rather a marginal career in the United States, which used it mainly for training pilots in aerial combat. On the other hand it was a real success in the export market, with more than twenty countries around the world choosing this little effective twin-engined fighter which above all was cheap, particularly when it was partly subsidized by the United States...read more

Product Description: It was in the heat of aerial combat during the Korean War that the Starfighter gained its experience. The US Air Force needed a fighter with superior abilities and the military’s order for this aircraft permitted Lockheed to launch plans for a was interceptor jet...read more

Product Description: When it built the Crusader, the US Navy’s first supersonic aircraft, Vought repeated the success it had had with the legendary WWII fighter, the F4U Corsair. 1250 examples were built. This fighter with its unusual variable incidence wing, made its maiden flight in March 1955 and equipped more than seventy Navy and Marine Corps squadrons during its thirty year career...read more

Product Description: With more than 5000 examples built, some of them under license, the McDonnel F-4 Phantom is considered as one of the most characteristic fighters of the sixties and seventies.The thirteenth publication of the Planes & Pilots Series, this second volume dedicated to the Phantom presents the versions providing the USAF and the Air Forces of several foreign countries as Israël, Japan, Western Germany, Egypt...read more

Product Description: The 5th US Army Air Force was officially created on 5 February 1942 in the urgency following the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. At the outset, with limited means and equipped with obsolete materiel, its various units were tasked with defending Australia...read more