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Watson's Whizzers: Operation Lusty and the Race for Nazi Aviation Technology
Stock #: KB10151
Author: Wolfang W.E. Samuel
List Price: $39.99
Karen's Price:
$36.99
Watson's Whizzers is the complex story of the meticulously planned and executed disarmament of the Luftwaffe after its defeat in the spring of 1945, and the retrieval and transfer to the United States of Germany's advanced aeronautical technology and world-class scientists. more»
Subject: Aviation
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We Flew Alone: United States Navy B-24 Squadrons in the Pacific - February 1943 to September 1944
Stock #: KB10236
Author: Alan C. Carey
List Price: $19.95
Karen's Price:
$18.95
We Flew Alone: United States Navy B-24 Liberator Squadrons in the Pacific: February 1943 to September 1944, is the first comprehensive book written on the operations of Navy B-24 Liberator squadrons in the Pacific War. In this first of two volumes, Alan C. Carey, the author of the Reluctant Raiders: The Story of United States Navy Bombing Squadron VB/VPB-109 in World War II, examines the formation and use of the B-24 Liberator by the United States Navy. From the birth of the first squadron and their deployment to Guadalcanal in early 1943 to the squadrons that participated in the Central Pacific campaign, every Navy Liberator squadron is discussed in detail. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wekusta: Luftwaffe Weather Reconnaissance Units & Operations 1938-1945
Stock #: KB10087
Author: John Kington and Franz Selinger
List Price: $56.95
Karen's Price:
$51.95
This book lifts the curtain on a largely unknown or forgotten World War II activity involving highly educated German atmospheric scientists and pilots in the so-called Wetter-Erkundungs Staffeln (Wekusta - Meteorological Reconnaissance Squadrons).The authors have gone to the admirable effort to list almost 1,000 names of flight crew members and their assignments. In this way they honor their memory, their courage, and their contributions to atmospheric sciences.The book fills a long-existing gap in the history of atmospheric science and military aviation.
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Subject: Aviation
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Wellington Wings
Stock #: KB10088
Author: FR Chappell
List Price: $24.95
Karen's Price:
$22.95
Based on the Diaries of an RAF inteligence officer in the Western Desert, Wellington Wings presents a vivid picture of life and death in a desert bomber group between 1942 and 1945. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wet Wings & Drop Tanks: Recollections of American Transcontinental Air Racing 1928-1970
Stock #: KB10146
Author: Birch J. Matthews
List Price: $45.00
Karen's Price:
$41.00
Here is a unique, revealing, one-of-a-kind book about many of the personalities, pilot, and aircraft involved in major transcontinental races across the United States from 1928-1970. Written by the co-author of Mustang: The Racing Thoroughbred, this companion volume is an extensive history and assessment of many factors involved in the isolated, lonely environment of long distance air racing. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wings
Stock #: 20119
Author: Ross Howell,Jr.
List Price: $0.00
Karen's Price:
$25.00
Introduction by Chuck Yeager. Wonderful collection of aviation photographs taken by Mark Meyer. Hard cover.
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Subject: Aviation
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Wings of Air America: A Photo History
Stock #: KB10346
Author: Terry Love
List Price: $19.95
Karen's Price:
$18.95
Air America was the largest of the CIA's secret airlines. Air America was one of the world's most extraordinary airlines. It was run by the CIA, operated secret missions, publicly flew scheduled routes, and, at its peak, Air America had the largest commercial fleet in the world! Revealed here, for the first time, is some of the flight equipment that was used on some of these secret missions. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wings of the Luftwaffe
Stock #: KB10090
Author: Eric Brown
List Price: $56.95
Karen's Price:
$51.95
During more than two decades of uninterrupted flying Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown enjoyed the most extraordinary career of any test pilot and no pilot has a logbook that lists a greater variety of aircraft types flown. From his unique knowledge of German aviation, ‘Winkle’ Brown has selected the most important and most promising aircraft employed by the Luftwaffe and those evolved for that air arm in Germany during World War II – the true wings of the Luftwaffe. He describes their background and characteristics, and together with more than 200 photographs, color profiles, and sectional drawings provides an in-depth assessment of the contribution made to the annals of military aviation in the late 1930s and early 1940s by an aircraft industry that proved itself truly second to none in ingenuity. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wings of the Weird & Wonderful
Stock #: KB10010
Author: Eric 'Winkle' Brown
List Price: $56.95
Karen's Price:
$51.95
Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, the former Chief Naval Test Pilot and Commanding Officer of the renowned Aerodynamics Flight at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having flown more types of aircraft than any other pilot in the world. From the North American Savage designed to take off from an aircraft carrier with a nuclear bomb to the Supermarine Attacker, Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown has tested their qualities and takes the reader into the cockpits of those exciting aircraft to thrill to the joys and hazards of flying both weird and wonderful aircraft with one of the greatest of all pilots. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wolfpack
Stock #: 20126
Author: Jerry Scutts
List Price: $0.00
Karen's Price:
$9.95
Dust jacket also in excellent condition.
Hunting MiGs over Viet Nam. Hard cover. more»
Subject: Aviation
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World's Fastest Four-Engine Piston-Powered Aircraft
Stock #: KB10003
Author: Mike Machat
List Price: $32.95
Karen's Price:
$29.95
Still the fastest four-engine piston aircraft ever flown, the Republic XR-12 and its competitor, the Hughes XF-11, were well ahead of their time in 1946. Envisioned as a long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft with a top speed of more than 450 mph, the Republic XR-12 also offered near jet-like performance for the world's airlines with a 44-passenger commercial version named the Rainbow. While the clear emphasis of this book is on the Republic airplane, the Hughes XF-11 is also covered and compared in its role as a twin-engine competitor to the more advanced four-engine Republic airplane. more»
Subject: Aviation
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World's Strangest Aircarft
Stock #: 80001
Author: Michael Taylor
OUT OF PRINT
Hard cover. Dust cover and book are both in pristine condition.Third Printing.A collection of Weird and Wonderful flying machines.Page after page of strange and unusual photographs of aircraft.Photos are Black&White and Color. Great table top book and conversation piece!
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Subject: Aviation
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Wrecks & Relics-21st Edition
Stock #: KB10091
Author: Ken Ellis
List Price: $29.95
Karen's Price:
$27.95
Arranged on a geographic basis, Wrecks & Relics is a fabulous touring guide. It provides the details of visitor attractions large and small; including exhibits, locations, opening times, contact points, websites, and much more. Individual aircraft entries include potted histories and helpful comments, providing a unique examination of the state of our museums, 'warbirds', classic and vintage types, 'propliners', restoration projects, imports, and exports. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wrecks & Relics-22nd Edition
Stock #: KB10092
Author: Ken Ellis
List Price: $32.95
Karen's Price:
$29.95
Want suggestions of aviation museums to visit? Need to know about the aviation heritage of Yorkshire? Would you like to see an airworthy Spitfire? Are there any Boeing 727s in the UK? Wrecks & Relics can answer all these questions and many more. Covering more than 750 locations, Wrecks and Relics has an enviable reputation as a comprehensive touring guide: providing details of visitor attractions large and small, including major exhibits, locations, opening times, contact points, and web-sites. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time: The 305th Bomb Group & the 2nd Schweinfurt Raid
Stock #: KB10218
Author: George C. Kuhl
List Price: $29.95
Karen's Price:
$27.95
This is true story of the second raid on Schweinfurt, Germany by the Eighth Air Force 1st and 3rd Bombardment Divisions on 14 October 1943. On this day, the Eighth Air Force lost air superiority to the German Luftwaffe in a continuous air battle that lasted over three hours. Many refer to it as the greatest one-day air battle of World War II. Wrong Place, Wrong Time is a study of the 1st Bombardment Division and specifically the 305th Bomb Group on that fateful day. more»
Subject: Aviation
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X-Plane Crashes
Stock #: KB10093
Author: Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore
List Price: $32.95
Karen's Price:
$29.95
Known as "The X-Hunters," authors Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore have located more than 100 crash sites of exotic aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base and Area 51. The authors examine the contributing causes of each crash and use then-and-now photographs to illustrate their findings. The stories end with The X-Hunters' search for the crash site and what they discovered. more»
Subject: Aviation
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X-Planes Photo Scrapbook
Stock #: KB10094
Author: Dennis R. Jenkins
List Price: $26.95
Karen's Price:
$24.95
The X-Planes conjure up images of Chuck Yeager first breaking the sound barrier in the X-1 or of the black, bullet-shaped X-15 streaking through the skies at over Mach 6. Dennis R. Jenkins has assembled an outstanding collection of photographs of the X-Planes from government and company archives, as well as personal and public collections. Hundreds of photos – some in color and many never-before-seen – detail the modern history of experimental flight. more»
Subject: Aviation
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Yellowjackets!: The 361st Fighter Group in World War II P-51 Mustangs over Germany
Stock #: KB10205
Author: Paul B. Cora
List Price: $39.95
Karen's Price:
$36.95
Yellowjackets! The 361st Fighter Group in World War II is a narrative history of a combat unit attached to the U.S. 8th Air Force in the European Theater of Operations from December 1943 through the end of the war in Europe. more»
Subject: Aviation
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