Jon Lake Boeken

"Specifications, weaponry and performance profiles of over 2000 warplanes"--Jacket.

In the summer of 1940, the most important battle in the history of air warfare was fought be tween the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe in the skies over southern Britain. This book examines the strength of both sides on the eve of the battle, and its wider strategic implications for the outcome of the World War II.

Built in large numbers in the years leading up to World War II (1939-1945), Bristol's Blenheim saw use as both a fighter and bomber thanks to its high speed in relation to the biplane types it was then replacing. Aside from its work as the staple medium RAF bomber from 1939 through to 1942, Belnheims also served as pioneer radar-equipped nightfighters in 1940/41 and long-range patrol aircraft with Coastal Command. Obsolete in Europe by the end of 1940, the Belnheim continued to serve as a frontline bomber in North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Far East well into 1943.

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This book presents the full story of the Tom cat''s tortured birth and development, analysing how it becam e the greatest interceptor of its era, and how the adoption of new roles has given it a new and vital importance in the post Cold War world. '

Válka reaktivních stíhaček, i tak se dá nazvat konflikt na Korejském poloostrově. Autoři se ovšem nezabývají pouze stíhacími esy - americkými a sovětskými - látajícími na Mig-15 a F-86 Sabre. Představena jsou letadla, která se proslavila za bojů druhé světové války, korejský konflikt byl ale jejich labutí písní.