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B-52, likewise called Stratofortress, U.S. long-range weighty aircraft, was planned by the Boeing Company in 1948, first flown in 1952, and first conveyed for military assistance in 1955. However initially expected to be a nuclear bomb transporter equipped for arriving at the Soviet Union, it has demonstrated versatility for certain missions, and many B-52s stayed in help in the mid-21st hundred years. This book incorporates: - Part 1 - Military Careers How I Became a Crewdog - George Donald Jackson My Story And I'm Sticking To It - Steve McCutcheon The Career of a Civilian Crew Member - George R Dempsey - Part 2 - Survival S-V80-A "Survivor" - Tommy Towery Shootdown - George Donald Jackson The Seventh Confirmed Survivor - William R. "Bar" Gabel My Nylon Let Down - George Schryer Blood Chit - The Last Hope Of A Downed Crewmember - Arthur Craig Mizner A Typhoon Story - Kent Dodson Desert Survival and Rescue - Gary Henley, Dave Lay, Rich Vande Verde The Crash of Ash 01 - Dennis Thibodeau In case We Forget - Tommy Towery - Part 3 - Training Peacetime in The SAC - Rich Vande Verde Warning - Priceless-Ken Schmitz The Secret Trip to England - Gary Henley, Dave Lay Child Radar in A Grown-Up World - Glenn Burchard The Elephant in The Living Room - TommyTowery SAC Rewards Those Who Serve - Ken Schmitz The Check Ride - Ken Schmitz Instructions to Bust An ORI And Come Out Looking Good - Steve McCutcheon Everyone is ready and available For Red Flag TDY - Tommy Towery CEVG Checkride - The Flight That Was Doomed From The Start - Ken Schmitz Carswell Crew R/E/S-09 - Gary Henley - Part 4 - Cold War A Hard Day's Night - Bill Robinson Activity Sea Fish - Lothar ""Nick"" Maier Chrome Dome Chronicles - Lothar "Nick" Maier From The BUFF to The Moon - Karl D. (Ned) Neela Memories of D-model Alert and "The Great Inquisition" - Rock Roszak Ready Antics - Gary Henley - Section 5 - Southeast Asia U-Tapao Memories - Charles "Throw" Talcott B*U*F*F (Big Ugly Fat F*****) Cinnamon - Lothar "Nick" Maier The EW Bomb Run - George Donald Jackson The Habu Light - Arthur Craig Mizner A True Gunner's Story (Told by His Nav) - Bill Beavers When a Bomber Pilot… Always a Bomber Pilot - George W. Golding First Paved Buffs In Combat - Dave Hofstadter Number Two, You're On Fire! - Jim Carter Story of the Chili Donut, U-Tapao, 1972 - Bill Beavers Move! Move! Three SAMs - Six O'clock - Closing Fast! - Arthur Craig Mizner A Birthday Trip to Remember - Don McCrabb Who's Got It? - Karl D. (Ned) Neela --- - Section 6 - Tales Stabilizer Trim Failure - Lothar "Nick" Maier Pucker Factor - Vincent H. Osborne Heavy armament specialist In Hot Water - C. C. "Stop" Walker Honey Bucket Bomber - Albert F. Spohn A Bathroom Poet's Dream: Writing In the Buff - Vincent H. Osborne Heavy armament specialists' Tales - Ralph Stearns The Birth of KBUF - Dave Lay KBUF - The Rest of The Story - Gary Henley Frightening Holbrook - Dave Lay The Fixated Pilot - Dave Lay Crewdog Sense of Humor - Glenn O. Burchard More Gunner Memories - Harry Tolmich The Day the IG Got A Ticket - - Gary Henley, Dave Lay, Rich Vande Verde The Gamblers - Gary Henley --- - Part 7 - Bar Stories Bar Stories
Flight of the Old Dog is one of the original and classic military techno-thrillers in the entire world. It is the basis of the PC flight simulator "Megafortress" published by Three-Sixty Pacific. It has been translated into twelve languages, and sales have exceeded a million copies. The United States and the Soviet Union are on the brink of nuclear war. At a top-secret research facility at Kavaznya, Sibera, the Soviets have developed a ground-based laser weapon capable of shooting down American satellites, and they are betting that the American president doesn't have the guts to risk starting a nuclear exchange. But at a top-secret flight test site in the Nevada desert called "Dreamland," a team of test pilots and engineers have created the Megafortress: a venerable B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers modified with stealth technology, computers, digital avionics, state-of-the-art weaponry, and performance-enhancing features that makes it unlike any B-52 bomber--or any other warplane--ever flown. Now it's time to flight-test the Megafortress, and the Air Force assembles the best pilots, bombardiers, and navigators to see what this creation can do. One of them is Captain Patrick McLanahan, considered the best B-52 bombardier in the Air Force. The others on the crew are hard-charging pilots and world-class engineers, and McLanahan is nothing like them. But the team leader and aircraft commander, Lt. General Brad Elliott, can see that McLanahan is a quiet professional and a natural-born leader. Soviet spies soon discover the Megafortress, and they recognize that a fleet of these advanced planes can practically neutralize all of the Soviet Union's air defenses. Back-channel negotiations begin, and the U.S. is willing to mothball the Megafortress if the Soviets mothball the Kavaznya laser. That is completely unacceptable to the Soviet leader, and he hatches a daring plan to deal with the Megafortress while keeping his devastating laser weapon. Just prior to a live fire flight test, a team of Russian commandos invade Dreamland with the goal of stealing the Megafortress…or destroying it. The crew just barely manages to escape. The American president orders the top-secret aircraft back to Dreamland, but Brad Elliott and the vice president hatch a daring plan of their own: use the Megafortress to penetrate the Soviet Union's stiff air defenses and destroy the Kavaznya laser. Thus begins the aerial cat-and-mouse game across ten thousand miles and wave after wave of the Soviet Union's most advanced air defenses and fighter-interceptors, which are all on full alert. Most of the Megafortress's crew have no military training. They have supplies for only a few hours, and are outfitted for the deserts of southern Nevada, not the frigid steppes of Siberia. They have flown the Megafortress only a few times, and only in carefully scripted test flights. With Brad Elliott at the controls, Patrick McLanahan realizes that it's up to him to organize and get the rest of the crew ready for the fight of their lives.
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A Biographical Tribute to the Memory of Trim by Matthew Flinders Trim was a ship's cat that accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801-03. Trim's epitath and tribute were written during Flinders' incarceration on Mauritius; he changed the names of the various ships used on the voyages We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Speed

Gilliland|Keith Dunnavant Bob Gilliland (Dunnavant)

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 293


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On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviation history. Developed at the super-secret Skunk Works, the SR-71 Blackbird was a technological marvel. In fact, more than a half century later, the Mach 3-plus titanium wonder, designed by Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, remains the world's fastest jet. It took a test pilot with the right combination of intelligence, skill, and nerve to make the first flight of the SR-71, and the thirty-eight-year-old Gilliland had spent much of his life pushing the edge. In Speed one of America's greatest test pilots collaborates with acclaimed journalist Keith Dunnavant to tell his remarkable story: How he was pushed to excel by his demanding father. How a lucky envelope at the U.S. Naval Academy altered the trajectory of his life. How he talked his way into U.S. Air Force fighters at the dawn of the jet age, despite being told he was too tall. How he made the conscious decision to trade the security of the business world for the dangerous life of an experimental test pilot, including time at the clandestine base Area 51, working on the Central Intelligence Agency's Oxcart program. The narrative focuses most intently on Gilliland's years as the chief test pilot of the SR-71, as he played a leading role in the development of the entire fleet of spy planes while surviving several emergencies that very nearly ended in disaster. Waging the Cold War at 85,000 feet, the SR-71 became an unrivaled intelligence-gathering asset for the U.S. Air Force, invulnerable to enemy defenses for a quarter century. Gilliland's work with the SR-71 defined him, especially after the Cold War, when many of the secrets began to be revealed and the plane emerged from the shadows--not just as a tangible museum artifact but as an icon that burrowed deep into the national consciousness. Like the Blackbird itself, Speed is a story animated by the power of ambition and risk-taking during the heady days of the American Century.
In December 1972, with an increasingly dovish Congress preparing to cut off all funding for the war in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi by the Strategic Air Command's "big stick," its fleet of B-52 bombers. Never before had a B-52 been lost in combat, but the North Vietnamese SAM missile crews knocked them out of the sky in the first days of the engagement. Despite the losses, the surviving bombers kept coming, inflicting huge losses on the North Vietnamese. For eleven days the momentum swung back and forth, moving from what appeared to be a certain U.S. triumph, to a possible North Vietnamese victory, to the ultimate ambiguous denouement in which both sides won and lost.
Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot goes beyond the classic Vietnam war story to give you some insight into what it was like to grow up on a farm with a big dream. George's journey takes you from farm fields in Wisconsin to the skies over Vietnam in F-4 fighter jets. Share his struggles, failures, and exhilarations as he moves along his path toward destiny. His story is filled with riveting accounts of missions flown by a fighter pilot into intense enemy resistance. Along the way, there were indications of divine intervention. The reception upon returning home from the war was less than desirable. Understanding the plight of Vietnam veterans is a prelude to respecting the contributions of 2.4 million Americans who have fought to preserve the freedoms we cherish.
This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achievements and legacy of one of the war's top combat admirals has been long overdue until now. Battleship Commander explores Lee's life from boyhood in Kentucky through his eventual service as commander of the fast battleships from 1942 to 1945. Paul Stillwell draws on more than 150 first-person accounts from those who knew and served with Lee from boyhood until the time of his death. Said to be down to earth, modest, forgiving, friendly, and with a wry sense of humor, Lee eschewed the media and, to the extent possible, left administrative details to others. Stillwell relates the sequential building of a successful career, illustrating Admiral Lee's focus on operational, tactical, and strategic concerns. During his service in the Navy Department from 1939 to 1942, Lee prepared the U.S. Navy for war at sea, and was involved in inspecting designs for battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, and destroyers. He sent observers to Britain to report on Royal Navy operations during the war against Germany and made plans to send an action team to mainland China to observe conditions for possible later Allied landings there. Putting his focus on the need to equip U.S. warships with radar and antiaircraft guns, Lee was one of the few flag officers of his generation who understood the tactical advantage of radar, especially during night battles. In 1942 Willis Lee became commander of the first division of fast battleships to operate in the Pacific. During that service, he commanded Task Force 64, which achieved a tide-turning victory in a night battle near Guadalcanal in November 1942. Lee missed two major opportunities for surface actions against the Japanese. In June 1944, in the Marianas campaign, he declined to engage because his ships were not trained adequately to operate together in surface battles. In October 1944, Admiral William Halsey's bungled decisions denied Lee's ships an opportunity for combat. Continuing his career of service near the end of the war, Lee, in the summer of 1945, directed anti-kamikaze research efforts in Casco Bay, Maine. While Lee's wartime successes and failures make for compelling reading, what is here in this biography is a balanced look at the man and officer.