Douglas V Smith

One Hundred Years of U.S. Navy Air Power (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy Aviation, this book chronicles Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy's first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept wing jets in the period after WW II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft and rigid airships, and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612514239
• Artikelnr.: 39083803

Autorenporträt

Edited by Douglas V. Smith; Foreword by George Herbert Walker Bush