Product Description: For aviation, the 1950s was a fascinating decade. For the Royal Air Force, it witnessed the transition from propeller to jet aircraft in the fields of fighter, bomber, trainer and transport aircraft. The 1950s saw the end of the Second World War veterans - Lancasters, Spitfires, Mosquitoes and Sunderlands...read more

Product Description: In the aftermath of World War II, the Continental Air Command was redesignated as the Strategic Air Command (SAC) as part of a plan to organize the Army Air Forces around three new organizations based on strategic, tactical and air defense missions...read more

Product Description: “On previous flight ops, when a launch was delayed, we usually passed the time telling jokes or exchanging the latest scuttlebutt. Tonight was different. Each of us sat silently with our own thoughts. All of us, I’m sure, made impossible promises to God, and I was one of them...read more

Product Description: Final Cut has been the reference source for the postwar B-17 since the first edition was published in 1990. It was completely revised in 2000 for the new millennium. Then, another big update for 2009. Now, with all the changes that have occurred in the B-17 world in the past few years, it has been expanded and updated in this brand new fourth edition...read more

Product Description: The Spitfire was the finest fighter plane of its time, the weapon that saved Britain in its darkest hour. It was also a thing of beauty, beloved by the heroes who fought in it and the public that cheered as it flew overhead. Now, a magnificently produced book—filled with first-person reminiscences and lavishly illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs—pays fitting tribute to this enduring World War II icon...read more

During the mid-1950s the United States Air Force was given its most powerful single-seat, two-engine fighter to date. The Voodoo would be deployed before the end of that decade in the tactical nuclear bomber and tactical reconnaissance roles world-wide, and in homeland defense with the two-seat, all-weather variant. In December 1957 it took the World Air Speed Record to Mach 1.6 - over one and a half times faster than the sound barrier.This book looks at the evolution of the original design and its introduction into service. Chapters cover operations in Korea, Vietnam, the Cuban Crisis and in Europe during the Cold War years. Many first-hand accounts from pilots are included and the author's own experiences with the aircraft are given with fascinating insight.The Voodoo was an elegant, mean-looking fighting machine that epitomized fast flying in the fifties and sixties. It continues to be a revered airplane.

'This book describes the Strategic Air Command's (SAC) history along with the evolution of its aircraft markings policy, basic definitions on aircraft markings terminology, and individual unit sections on SAC's bombardment, strategic reconnaissance and fighter groups and wings'--Provided by publisher.

The role of the fledgling Chinese air force in the Korean War is explored for the first time here, with details of Soviet assistance and air battles over Korea that helped shape this emerging arm of Chinese power. (Military History

The Old Drama and The New is William Archer's thorough criticism of the theatre - a collection of fourteen lectures delivered at King's College on the history and progressions of Western theatres. The lectures are a careful examination of the forces which shaped theatre and the men and women who produced the most lasting plays of their time. Lectures include: The Elizabethan Legend (blank verse, soliloquies and asides, plays of Jonson, Chapman, Middleton and Massinger), The Restoration to the Renaissance (romance and tragedy, the plays of Dryden, Restoration Comedy, Congreve, modern playwrights ? Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, intellectual plays of Galsworthy and Shaw, the evolution of modern drama, and many more. Archer was a Scottish author, critic, and translator. Throughout his life he worked as drama critic on several London newspapers. He influenced the direction of English and American drama through his active interest in the work of the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. He translated Ibsen's Pillars of Society, and largely through his efforts the play was the first Ibsen play to be produced (1880) in London. Archer's writings include Masks of Faces (1888), The Old Drama and the New (1923), and several plays, including the highly successful melodrama The Green Goddess (1923).

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