Air Power: From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II : a History of the People, Ideas and Machines that Transformed War in the Century of FlightViking, 2003 - 518 من الصفحات Arguably no single human invention has transformed war more than the aeroplane. The potential of airpower to change the very nature - perhaps even the meaning - of combat was strikingly evident almost from the moment the Wright brothers first flew. showing how, during the course of the 20th century, it transformed warfare. Drawing on combat memoirs, government and industry archives, technical studies and museum collections, this text brings together a complete narrative history of war in the air, with the people, events, ideas and inventions that made it possible. |
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... machine gun . None were any match for the German Albatross ; the Lewis gun so weighed down the underpowered Farman that it was still struggling to get above 1,000 feet half an hour after the German had departed from the scene ...
... machine gun . None were any match for the German Albatross ; the Lewis gun so weighed down the underpowered Farman that it was still struggling to get above 1,000 feet half an hour after the German had departed from the scene ...
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... machine gun on a tractor mono- plane where it would still be in reach of the pilot - a necessity for reloading and for clearing the frequent jams that machine guns of that era were prone to . Before the war the French aircraft engineer ...
... machine gun on a tractor mono- plane where it would still be in reach of the pilot - a necessity for reloading and for clearing the frequent jams that machine guns of that era were prone to . Before the war the French aircraft engineer ...
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... machine guns Hurricane I notable was a series of tests to determine how much damage a bullet could inflict on a modern bomber . While the speed and climb performance of even the biplane fighters of the early 1930s had posted huge gains ...
... machine guns Hurricane I notable was a series of tests to determine how much damage a bullet could inflict on a modern bomber . While the speed and climb performance of even the biplane fighters of the early 1930s had posted huge gains ...
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Bogeymen | 32 |
Scientists and empiricists Invading Frenchmen and phantom airships | 52 |
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