paperback edition 1973 lots of color photos and profiles

First Edition. 8 1/2" x 11", 64 page trade paperback bound in pictorial wrappers. Near fine condition. Small rubs to the corners and some mild dust soiling to the wrappers.

A pictorial record of the American pilots who ran up a 10 to 1 victory ratio over the MiG-15. In the pilots own words of what it was like to fly the F-86 Sabre against North Korea & Soviet pilots. 145 photos, 7 maps, 28 dwgs, 40 full color paintings, 10 photos. 80 pages.

Book by Nico Sgarlato

The B-29 was the original production version of the Superfortress. Since the new bomber was urgently needed, the production design was developed in tandem with the service testing. In fact, the first B-29 was completed only two months after the delivery of the first YB-29. Forty-six B-29s of this variant, built by the Glenn L. Martin Company at its Omaha plant, were used as the aircraft for the atomic bomb missions, modified to Silverplate specifications. Some 2,513 B-29s were manufactured by Boeing-Wichita (1,620), Bell-Atlanta (357), and Martin-Omaha (536).\[4\]

Following a brief history of the overall development of the fighters of this period, this book discusses in detail the design and history of the major and most innovative designs produced by the German aircraft industry. In 80 pages with numerous photos, cutaways and line drawings, color photos and profiles, this volume covers the 'old standards' as well as the very advanced new designs in use at the end of the war.

This book deals primarily with a present day group of men and aircraft that represent the epitome of Navy and Marine Corps aviation. In order to more fully understand where they came from, this book also takes a brief look back to the very beginning of naval aviation and early precision acrobatic flying. During those early years the men of those acrobatic teams, and the aircraft they flew, ventured into a realm of flight that bore a resemblance to the early days of American space pioneering. Men with limited knowledge and machines with limited technology joined together to bring about a naval tradition. It is a tradition of teamwork, and it is on this very basis that these unique groups of aviators and aircraft have come together during the last half century and each left their mark in the history of Navy and Marine aviation. Each team, in their own unique way, has carried the inspirations of their forefathers in aerial displays of precision formation flying. They have flown their breathtaking performances through an evolution of men, machines and maneuvers while continually striving for the ultimate goal of perfection. An attempt to bring together the history of Navy and Marine Corps flight demonstration teams, seemed to this author, from the first, to be a very special undertaking. It was felt that to bring together all naval flight demonstration teams from the past to the present would be a salute to Navy-tradition, which is the basis on which this book has been written.

Book by Ernest R. McDowell

4 book box set of Robert Heinlein's finest. Stranger in a Strange Land, The Past Through Tomorrow, Time Enough For Love, I Will Fear no Evil.