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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... Radio Research Station at Slough , west of London , and broached the " fantastic " question : Was it possible , he asked , to build a " death ray " that could disable an airplane or its crew from a distance ? The death - ray idea had a ...
... Radio Research Station at Slough , west of London , and broached the " fantastic " question : Was it possible , he asked , to build a " death ray " that could disable an airplane or its crew from a distance ? The death - ray idea had a ...
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... radio beacon called Knickebein . A decoded German radio message referred to estab- lishing Knickebein at a given day at a particular latitude and longitude , which corresponded to a point over England . Two German prisoners taken from ...
... radio beacon called Knickebein . A decoded German radio message referred to estab- lishing Knickebein at a given day at a particular latitude and longitude , which corresponded to a point over England . Two German prisoners taken from ...
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... radio messages and knew his intentions . Each of the Dorniers carried a new weapon : a 3,000 - pound radio - steered bomb called the Fritz X. One struck Roma squarely amidships , punching a hole through her hull and detonating below . A ...
... radio messages and knew his intentions . Each of the Dorniers carried a new weapon : a 3,000 - pound radio - steered bomb called the Fritz X. One struck Roma squarely amidships , punching a hole through her hull and detonating below . A ...
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flying machine | 14 |
Bogeymen | 32 |
Scientists and empiricists Invading Frenchmen and phantom airships | 52 |
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