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Fighting Jets


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By: Bryce Walker and the Editors of Time-Life Books


Fighting Jets is a Time-Life aviation book included in the Epic of Flight series.

On August 27, 1939, just four days before the outbreak of WWII, a slender unconventional research airplane designated Heinkel 178, took off from Marienhe Airfield in Germany to make the first successful flight of a turbojet aircraft.

Fighting Jets

Although hardly noticed at the time, the event marked the dawn of a new age in aerial warfare. It was a revolution created basically by two men (Frank Whittle of Great Britain and Hans von Ohain of Germany).

The first fighting jets had little effect initially; their appearance set the stage for future generations of jet warplanes. Great Britain, the United States and Japan all developed and flew jet aircraft before the World War II ended.

Fighting Jets book is one volume included in the Time-Life Epic of Flight series.

Epic of Flight: Fighting Jets
Book Contents

Chapter                                                                         Page

1          The Nazi wonderbird                                                                18
2          A proving ground in MiG Alley                                     45
3          The Strategic Air Command: bombers for peace                       77
4          The war of a million sorties                                                        103
5          Duels over the desert                                                                135


176 pgs w/Index, hardbound w/dust jacket, 9.25 x 11.25, b&w and color photographs & illustrations.


Fighting Jets

ISBN Number: 1-84447-035-0

Item Number: 1173


 
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