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Author
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.p. cm.
Description
"Fighter planes blaze through the sky faster than any other jets. The military uses fighter planes on daring and dangerous missions. Learn more about these high-flying planes, including how fast they fly, the weapons they carry, and the amazing moves they can make in combat."--www.Amazon.com.
5) Firefox
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-flying thriller of a desperate plot to steal the top-secret Russian warplane code-named "Firefox"--And fly it out of the Soviet Union through the world's most lethal air defense system.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 8 hr., 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Zero killer: No Allied aircraft can match Japan's deadly Zero until the American Navy deploys the fearsome F6F Hellcat. Strap in with legendary dogfighters Robert Duncan, Hamilton McWhorter, and Alex Vraciu to relive the epic dogfights of 1943 that wrote a new chapter in the annals of aerial combat. The last gunfighter: Tackle the fierce North Vietnamese MiG in the Navy's best fighter, the F8 Crusader, alongside jocks Paul Speer and Phil Wood,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 623 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illlustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
A history of combat aviation that looks at aces of the air and their machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to today's technologically expert flying warriors in supersonic jets.
Author
Publisher
Check Six Book
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
212 pages
Description
"The boundless sky's peace and dangers are normally reserved for nature's aviators or for members of the elite fraternity/sorority of fighter pilots - or for readers of this new, fast-paced novel by Ed Cobleigh. Be elevated by tightly written, flowing prose to the exhilarating world of flight. Experience new insights into the world of the lucky few who view clouds from above. Follow the perilous life of a peregrine falcon along California's wild Central...
11) Jets over Korea
Series
Publisher
Allegro Corporation
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"This is the story of the first air war in which jet aircraft played a central role. Once-formidable fighters such as the P-51 Mustang and F4U Corsair, both propeller-driven, now relinquished their air superiority role to a new generation of faster, jet-powered fighters. At the beginning of the war, P-80 Shooting Star, F9F Panther, and other jets under the UN flag dominated North Korea's prop-driven air force. The balance would shift with the arrival...
12) First air war
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the technological revolution and impact of fighter planes during World War I.
13) Battle machines
Publisher
Ticktock
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
112 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Description
"From medieval battles to supersonic and stealth technology, discover fascinating facts about military machines and how they've developed to meet the ever-changing demands of warfare"--P. [4] of cover.
14) A sunlit weapon
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 17
Description
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire--the fastest fighter aircraft in the world--to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in...
15) Better to rest
Author
Series
Liam Campbell mysteries volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Like a spectral presence, a hand clutching a gold piece emerges from the ice of a calving glacier near the small town where Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell is investigating the brutal murder of a 74-year-old woman. The hand belonged to an army soldier killed with his crewmates in the crash of the World War II army plane entombed by the glacier a half century ago.
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