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  • Building Moonships

    The Grumman Lunar Module

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Images of America
    Chronicling the visual history of the design, construction and launch of the lunar module - one of the most historic machines in human history. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced his plans for landing a man on the moon by 1970 - despite the fact that the United States had a total of just 15 minutes of spaceflight experience up to that point. With that announcement, the space race had ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Long Island Aircraft Crashes

    1909-1959

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    During the first fifty years of American aviation, Long Island was at the center of aircraft innovation and flight. There were more aircraft manufacturers and airports located on Long Island than in any other part of the United States. Due to the extraordinarily high volume of air traffic, Long Island also led the country-if not the world-in aircraft crashes. Long Island Aircraft Crashes: 1909 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Long Island Airports

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Images of America
    Long Island is a natural airfield. The central area of Long Island�s Nassau County�known as the Hempstead Plains�is the only natural prairie east of the Allegheny Mountains. The island itself is ideally placed at the eastern edge of the United States, adjacent to its most populous city. In fact, nowhere else in America has so much aviation activity been confined to such a relatively small ... Leer más

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  • LaGuardia Airport

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    LaGuardia Airport, named for the mayor of New York in the mid 1930s is one of America's busiest airports and has undergone great change throughout the years. Constructed closer to Manhattan than the commercially unsuccessful Floyd Bennett Field, LaGuardia Airport was conceived in the mid-1930s as New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized the need for a great airport for one of the world's ... Leer más

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  • Long Island Aircraft Manufacturers

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    Take a flight with the Long Island aviation companies that helped make the industry the integral part of our world that it is today. Significant aircraft manufacturing began on Long Island in the early 20th century and boomed during the war years. Long Islanders helped transform aviation from a dangerous sport to a viable means of transportation, while also producing a large portion of the nation ... Leer más

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  • John F. Kennedy International Airport

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    John F. Kennedy International Airport opened in 1948, after the realization set in that the newly built LaGuardia Airport was unable to handle the volume of air traffic for New York City. Pushed through by New York�s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the airport was to be located 14 miles from Manhattan, in Jamaica Bay, Queens, on the site of the old Idlewild Golf Course. For its first years, Idlewild ... Leer más

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  • Aviation Firsts

    336 Questions and Answers

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Dover Transportation
    Curious about the first person to be born in an airplane, which American president was the first to fly, or who built the world's first helicopter? Answers to these and other aviation-related questions can be found in this fascinating, fact-filled book compiled by Joshua Stoff, Air and Space Curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York.You'll find the answers to questions ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Dover Transportation
    One of the greatest industrial feats of World War II — indeed of all time — was the massive production of military aircraft by American manufacturers. America's sudden entry into the war required its typically small aircraft "job shops" to convert quickly to assembly-line techniques to meet the urgent demand for fighters and bombers. In many ways, Allied victory depended on the success of this ... Leer más

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  • Transatlantic Flight

    A Picture History, 1873–1939

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    For many, the names Washington Donaldson, Walter Wellman, J. C. Woods, and G. H. Scott do not automatically ring a bell in connection with the history of transatlantic flight. Yet these and scores of other brave men and women successfully challenged the Atlantic in heroic flights before Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and “Wrong-way” Corrigan. This profusely illustrated volume records the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Charles A. Lindbergh

    The Life of the "Lone Eagle" in Photographs

    de Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Dover Transportation
    Extensive pictorial anthology chronicles extraordinary career of the man who changed aviation history. Over 250 rare photographs, accompanied by detailed captions depict Lindbergh in childhood photos, shots of his "barnstorming" days, views of the young pilot examining damage to his Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" after crashing in 1923, and touring with the Spirit of St. Louis. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    SAC B-47 and B-52 Operations in the Early Cold War

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    The events in Jet Age Man took place during the early Cold War, an era that will go down as a period when civilization teetered on the edge of the abyss. To some, nuclear deterrence appeared as utter madness, and was in fact commonly referred to as M.A.D. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction provoked protests and marches, and the architect of M.A.D, General Curtis LeMay, became a symbol of ... Leer más

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  • F-105 Wild Weasel vs SA-2 ‘Guideline’ SAM

    Vietnam 1965–73

    Series Libro 35 - Duel
    A detailed account of the suppression of North Vietnam's surface-to-air missile defences during the Vietnam War, initiating a totally new concept of air war.The Vietnam War was the first conflict that saw extensive use of surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles, and thus became a training ground for the tactics of this new type of battle, as USAF pilots battled with supersonic Soviet ground-to-air ... Leer más

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