Название: One Hundred Years of World Military Aircraft
Автор: Norman Polmar, Dana Bell
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1591146860
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 462
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 55,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the century following the Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, thousands of military aircraft have been designed and hundreds of thousands of have been produced. From that massive aeronautic pantheon, two well-known aviation historians have selected the one hundred most significant military aircraft as a centennial tribute.
Among the aircraft showcased in this book are several military aviation "firsts," a few "largest," and a number of superlative aircraft in terms of production or performance. For example, the Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik was produced in greater numbers than any other aircraft in history, while the Lockheed A-12 Oxcart and its derivative SR-71 Blackbird were the world's fastest military aircraft.