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Author : Jim Dunn
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811752712
Photos of retired American military aircraft, emphasizing their nose art.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811713083
Another volume in the Stackpole Military Photo Series, Boneyard Nose Art gives readers a first-hand look at retired American military aircraft, emphasizing their nose art. Featuring aircraft from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf Wars, over 300 color photos detail fighters, bombers, tankers, and transports, such as the B-2, B-17, F-16, C-130, and more. An ideal reference for modelers, military history enthusiasts, and art buffs, this title is also a perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series, including Airborne Combat, Coast Watching in WWII, and Flying American Combat Aircraft.
Author : Gary Velasco
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1596529989
Since the early days of flight, military pilots have personalized aircraft with artistic creations, giving each plane a unique identity and aircrews a sense of pride in ""their war bird."" This comprehensive volume covers the technical aspect on how nose art was applied to vintage military aircraft, with hundreds of fighters and bombers pictured. The uses of materials, supplies, and development of nose art designs are discussed with surviving nose artists. The author examines and analyzes WWII–era photographs and reveals their content along with numerous photos never before published. Recreating step-by-step flying war bird nose art restorations is outlined for the first time. Fighting Colors is an enjoyable read for military personnel and a graphic tool for all enthusiasts of pinup and vintage aircraft nose art.
Author : J. P. Wood
Publisher : Smithmark Pub
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 9780765197382
Author : Randy Walker
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780887403927
Today's nose art has become the rule and not the exception throughout the bomber and tanker fores of Strategic Air Command, and although Tactical Air Command frowns on non-standard markings of any sort, several TAC gained Air National Guard units have artwork on their aircraft. Tradition plays a large part in modem nose art. As shown in Randy Walkers' new book cartoons and sexy ladies have returned. Names like "Memphis Belle", "Chow Hound" and "Maid in the USA", that once went to war on B-17s and B-24s are now carried by B-52s and FB-111s, as well as many other modem aircraft. This modem nose art is often applied by a professional artist, though it is sometimes painted by members of the unit, and in the process some excellent artwork has been created.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 9781580071390
This country's largest military aircraft storage center began in the heady days following the end of World War II. At first only a small desert site holding bombers and transports in reserve for possible future use, it later became more of a salvage and parts recovery operation, and in many cases, a final resting place known as "the boneyard." In the 1950s and 1960s, with new wars erupting in Korea and Vietnam, certain aircraft stored in this desert center were once again in demand, and this famed storage and salvage facility in Tucson, Arizona, answered the call. Numerous photographs taken both from the air and on the ground show the reader vistas of the 4,000 total airplanes stored at this site, while a detailed appendix gives a comprehensive listing of all the aircraft types currently at AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group). In many cases, the numbers are quite staggering and are sure to surprise the reader.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0760344094
Veronico explores the romantic era of World War II warbirds and the stories of some of its most famous wrecks, including the "Swamp Ghost" (a B-17E which crashed in New Guinea in the early days of World War II and which was only recently recovered), and "Glacier Girl" (a P-38, part of "The Lost Squadron," which crashed in a large ice sheet in Greenland in 1942). Throughout, Veronico provides a history of the aircraft, as well as the unique story behind each discovery and recovery with ample illustrations.
Author : Marga R. Fritze
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : 9781610607841
Traces the history of the Navy's elite pilot group, and discusses their aircraft and the types of manuevers they perform at air shows.
Author : Hans Wiesman
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1612002595
A tale of a lifelong passion for a WWII aircraft that changed the author’s life: “It is almost like an adventure novel except it is true” (Air Classics). This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in postwar Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, a.k.a. the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957, his family left the island and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation, he started a career as a corporate executive—and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an excuse to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them. As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed, or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas, and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota, he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords, and conmen. The stories of these expeditions take the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there, one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.
Author : John Brennan
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811759253
Hundreds of unique color photos showing how soldiers decorated their helicopters during the Vietnam War.