Richard Hallion

Uses extracts from journals, diaries, and memoirs, as well as rare photographs and drawings, to provide a history of humanity's attempts at flight, including kites, balloons, rockets, and steerable airships.

Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War

Taking Flight

Rise of the Fighter Aircraft, 1914-18

Flight Research at Dryden, 1946-1981

On the Frontier

Eight Case Studies in the History of Hypersonic Technology : a Special Staff Office Study

The Hypersonic Revolution

The USAF Remembers Korea

Silver Wings, Golden Valor

An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought the way it was, the book examines the planning and preparation for war. Richard P. Hallion argues that the ascendancy of precision air power in warfare—which fulfilled the promise that air power had held for more than seventy-five years—reflects the revolutionary adaptation of a war strategy that targets things rather than people, allowing one to control an opposing nation without destroying it.

Air Power and the Gulf War

Storm Over Iraq

Curtis Peebles

With the development of supersonic aircraft, the X-plane era ushered in a new and challenging phase of flight. Researchers found that much of the knowledge accumulated from the previous, subsonic flight era did not apply to the emerging supersonic aircraft. These turbojet-powered planes also outpaced the usefulness of the wind tunnel, previously an indispensible tool of aeronautic research.This book explores the development of the X-series research aircraft, the planes that helped bridge the gap between subsonic flight and hypersonic flight.

Selected NACA/NASA Research Airplanes and Their Contributions to Flight

Probing the Sky

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