Bill Gunston Livres

HND Children; 1977 by bill bunston a technical directory of today's major warplanes, pictures and text is off the chart, great book with 254 pages dj is worn and torn.

Indhold: The Technology of Air Combat ; The Aircraft and their Weapons ; Air Combat Tactics.

When first printed in 1992, this book was a milestone in aviation publishing. Now, fully revised and updated to bring it into the new millennium, it is the most comprehensive record of aviation history available. Presented in a lively journalistic style, Aviation Year by Year contains a wealth of fascinating information. Thousands of contemporary photographs and illustrations, and facts and figures bring the history of aviation to life. New features for this updated edition include a timeline of the development of flight, a fully illustrated and revised introduction, and new pages covering the history of aviation up to the year 2000. Aviation Year by Year also includes a photo-gallery of each year's most significant aircraft and developments in technology, important flight records, and an encyclopedic cross-reference system to link articles throughout the months and years. More than a unique reference guide to the world of aviation and flight technology, Aviation Year by Year also chronicles the social and political events that have surrounded the amazing development of flight.

. 5 vols in slipcase, 1980 clean bright copy

Helped by more than 180 dramatic photographs, the story unfolds of how the best air forces developed, and of their winning strategies--including the Nazis' devastating Blitzkrieg tactics. Now, in the 21st century, much warfare is waged from the air. High-flying, high-tech air forces around the world keep breaking barriers in speed and in stealthiness. Find out how we got to this point, and where the modern air force will soar in the future. All the groundbreaking planes of the past and the ones revolutionizing our present receive illustrated coverage, as do those wars where control of the skies proved crucial to victory and humanitarian efforts in which the air force played a pivotal role.

A comprehensive guide to modern military aircraft features diagrams and descriptions of more than one hundred types of planes and air-launched missiles as well as reviewing the air forces and military capabilities of each nation

Identifies and provides technical descriptions for the fighters, bombers, helicopters, reconnaissance and transport aircraft, and trainers used by Israel

Bill Gunston's highly successful, fully illustrated reference work describes and lists every major aeroplane engine manufacturer throughout the world. For this fifth edition, the author has updated the book throughout, including new entries. With its informative glossary, diagrams, charts and photographs, some previously unpublished, this indispensable guide to the world's aero engines will be of interest to all aviation enthusiasts.

This is the fully revised and updated story of how British and American test pilots pierced the sound barrier in the late 1940s, support with many new photographs. Since then much has happened in the advancement of supersonic flight. As recently as 2003, tens of thousands of fare-paying passengers were routinely enjoying transatlantic intercontinental air travel at speeds of up to Mach 2 on Concorde. Internationally acclaimed best-selling aviation author Bill Gunston OBE describes in accessible style the rules and technologies of supersonic flight, developments in engine and airframe technology, the age of supersonic passenger transports, and advances in supersonic fighter and bomber design.

Contains more than seven hundred illustrations of military aircraft of World War II used by both Allied and Axis Countries, together with capsule specifications and history

Describes 300 types of modern warplanes, provides details of each aircraft including development history, deployments etc.

The history of propeller airliners, from the first dramatic passenger flights in converted World War I planes of the great turboprops of the 1940s and 1950s, is a proud one. Though outnumbered on today's major air routes, the propeller-driven airliner is successfully holding its own and is now challenging jet liners on short routes where fuel economy is important.

Densely informative compendium of all the types of aircraft employed by combatants during World War II.

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This impressive volume includes both a concise and penetrating historical analysis of the rise and fall of Nazi air power, and a comprehensive technical directory of all the major Luftwaffe aircraft flown in combat and in training. The wealth of illustrations, many of them in colour, make it the most attractive and authoritative book ever to be published on the subject.

This illustrated analysis of one of the premier combat weapons on the modern battlefield looks at the designs, weapons and tactics of 40 of today''s military helicopters, including the Kamov Ka-50 and Ka-52 and the Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche'

Modern Combat From Fighters to Battlefield Helicopters [Hardcover] BILL GUNSTON

history of each aircraft,600 detailed illustrations, 40 different aircraft described in detail

Second Library copy- San Diego Air and Space Museum.

Beskriver bombefly og jagerbombere op til slutningen af 1970'erne

British aircraft designers and airmen were challenged to develop existing fighters and to produce new types against a background of limited time, resources and war-torn facilities.

Traces the history of fighter planes, focusing on the use of planes in the first and second World Wars, equipment and clothing of fighter pilots, and the fighter planes of the future

Uses contemporary accounts to trace the history of aviation and describe records, events, and technical developments

This new edition survey of man's attempts since 1852 to design, develop and mass-produce aeroplanes and rotorcraft has more than 3000 entries, including 1000 photographs of oddball contraptions and their eccentric designers, as well as the big companies whose aircraft have become household names.

Alexandr S. Yakovlev was one of the most versatile aircraft designers of his age, but he had the misfortune to work in the USSR which made him almost unknown to the outside world. In 1926-27 he built his first aeroplane and from then on he designed structures which were, time and again, ahead of their time. In 1934, he was offered a derelict bed factory which he shortly transformed into a major design and manufacturing plant. From those premises came, to mention just some, a spate of sporting and training aircraft which gained many world-class the chief family of Soviet single-seat fighters of World War II, the Yak-1, -3, -7 and -9 of which 36,769 were built. He built the first jet to fly in the USSR and the first Soviet transport helicopters. Later came the principal Soviet radar-equipped interceptors, from which stemmed many other types of tactical twin-jet, including the Soviet counterpart to the U-2. Yakovlev died in 1989, and today his design bureau, still on the site of the old bed factory, is the giant Yak Aircraft Corporation. It produces the most important Russian twin-jet airliner, a diverse group of general-aviation aircraft, an advanced jet trainer and light-attack aircraft and, in conjunction with the Museum of Flying in California, replicas of the Yak-3 wartime fighter. This volume is a detailed analysis of all these and many other aircraft.

The illustrated technical directory of the world's combat aircraft today. Detailed descriptions and dramatic illustrations of over 200 warplanes. The Military Press, NY, First Edition, 1984, 208 pages, 4to. HB/DJ. Book Very good. DJ Very good, minor edge wear, small chip at top of spine, slight wrinkling on top edge, taped to both paste-down endpapers. Interior pages are bright and tight with some yellow highlighting. B&W illustrations and color photos.

Traces the history of the helicopter, and shows and provides information on helicopters used in the world's navies, in combat, for transportation and for rescue work

The military aircraft of the various air wings of the United States are simply the most powerful, most advanced, most deadly, and most functional ever produced. From the Navy's Super Hornet and the Marine's C-130 Hercules, to the Air Force's SR-71 Blackbird and the Army's CH-47 Chinook, to the futuristic F-22, this comprehensive book chronicles 200 of the most important combat, reconnaissance, and transport aircraft. Three-dimensional drawings, complete design details, unit markings, camouflage schemes, and performance capabilities make this technical directory a great source of facts on U.S. warplanes. 8 1/2" x 12". B&W & color photos & illus.

Children's book on fighter aircraft.

An Illustrated Examination of Advanced Technology Warfare - hardcover

Presents an in depth examination of over 250 of the world's military flying machines

Beretter generelt om flys opbygning og beskriver flykonstruktionernes historiske udvikling.

264 pages Salamander Books (April 26, 1979) English 0861010299 978-0861010295

Obsáhlá kniha, která představuje všechna nejdůležitější a nejznámější vojenské letadla, která jsou v současnosti v provozu kdekoli na světě. Spolu s údaji o výzbroji a avionice jsou pro každé letadlo uvedeny obsáhlé statistické údaje.

Kniha renomovaných autorů formátu A4 popisuje zbraně obou stran výše zmíněného konfliktu od ručních zbraní až po letadlové lodě. Je plná kvalitních barevných fotografií i fotorealistických kreseb a perokreseb s popisem. Doporučuji i pro modeláře.

Ilustrovaná příručka představuje slovem i obrazem nejvýznamnější bojová letadla používaná v průběhu 2. světové války. Detailní seznámení s technickými parametry, vojenským vybavením a praktickými příklady bojového nasazení stíhacích letadel a bombardérů všech významných armád, účastnících se ať již na straně spojenců či fašistické koalice bojů na jednotlivých frontách 2. světové války. Kniha vyniká bohatými ilustrativními přílohami - bokorysy, schématy a fotografiemi.

Popis technických parametrů klasických bojových letounů ve výzbroji německé Luftwaffe, italské a japonské armády.

Ilustrovaný průvodce Nejvýznamnější spojenecké stíhačky druhé světové války.

Obrázky typických prostředků vzdušné dopravy jsou doprovázeny vysvětlujícím textem a stručným shrnutím.

Příručka představuje nejvýznamnější současná bombardovací letadla ve výzbroji Velké Británie, Francie, USA a Sovětského Svazu (dnešního Ruska).

Proč se všichni tolik báli válečných lodí Vikingů? Kdo vynalezl střelný prach? Kdy došlo k prvnímu úspěšnému letu letadla? Proč se Velká Británie pokoušela na konci první světové války zakázat ponorky? Fascinující skutečnosti o válečných strojích od středověkých bitev po nadzvukovou a "neviditelnou" techniku. Sleduj, jak se vyvíjely schopnosti čelit měnícím se požadavkům válečnictví. Válečné stroje vyrážejí do boje!

Příručka seznamuje s technickými a provozními aspekty bojových letadel užívaných v NATO.