The American Osprey
Author | : Harry S. Hathaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Osprey |
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Author | : Harry S. Hathaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Osprey |
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Author | : Richard Whittle |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416563199 |
A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the United States Marine Corps. When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps’ own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft’s problems. Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.
Author | : Kenn Kaufman |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780618159888 |
The bestselling natural history of birds, lavishly illustrated with 600 colorphotos, is now available for the first time in flexi binding.
Author | : Peter E. Davies |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1472819926 |
The revolutionary X-15 remains the fastest manned aircraft ever to fly. Built in the two decades following World War II, it was the most successful of the high-speed X-planes. The only recently broken 'sound barrier' was smashed completely by the X-15, which could hit Mach 6.7 and soar to altitudes above 350,000ft, beyond the edge of space. Several pilots qualified as astronauts by flying above 50 miles altitude in the X-15, including Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon. The three X-15s made 199 flights, testing new technologies and techniques which greatly eased America's entry into manned space travel, and made the Apollo missions and Space Shuttle viable propositions. With historical photographs and stunning digital artwork, this is the story of arguably the greatest of the X-Planes.
Author | : Terrill J Clements |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472800591 |
The American Volunteer Group, or 'Flying Tigers', have remained the most famous outfit to see action in World War II. Manned by volunteers flying American aircraft acquired from the British, the AVG fought bravely in the face of overwhelming odds in China and Burma prior to the US entry into World War II. Pilots such as 'Pappy' Boyington, R T Smith and John Petach became household names due to their exploits against the Japanese Army Air Force. The AVG legend was created flying the Curtis P-40 Tomahawk and Kittyhawk. This volume dispels the myths surrounding the colours and markings worn by these famous fighters.
Author | : Alan F. Poole |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 142142715X |
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Author | : Alan F. Poole |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Edward Fuller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Osprey |
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Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Birds |
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Release | : 1885 |
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