B-2 Spirit: The Most Capable War Machine on the Planet

-- A riveting, nose-to-tail-section profile of the world's first -- and most sinister -- stealth technology bomber: the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit-- Profiles the design, development, construction, and performance capabilities of the B-2 like no other source!-- Examines the B-2's ability to convert from a conventional to nuclear platform in an hour; its 32-bomb carrying capacity; its tandem deployment with precision-guided munitions; and more

Engineering & Transportation

Steve Pace

Engineering

Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)

From its flying-wing design, to its radar-deflecting stealth capabilities, to its nuclear bomb-delivering capacity, the B-52 is one awe-inspiring war machine. In B-2 Spirit, popular aviation author Steve Pace delivers a razor's-edge portrait of this sinister-looking plane's daring design, development, and deployment. You'll read the exciting story of how Northrop Grumman developed this great leap forward in military aviation technology, a startling advance even over its own thrillingly foresighted B-49. you'll be thre as the B-2, code-named "Project Senior Ice"...Asserts itself as the most dominant bomber in military aviation history; emerges triumphant from a phalanx of flying wing designs; Undergoes intensive flight testing that brought this revolutionary warcraft into operation in just eight years; Receives design modifications for an 80-bomb or 40-bomb capacity, and conversion to a 16-bomb nuclear platform in less than an hour; Takes to the skies, ready for wartime operation in campaigns such as Kosovo. With more photos than have ever been available in the public domain, including an eight-page color-photo insert, B-2 spirit brings you closer to the B-2 civilians have previously been allowed to venture. Packed with details on this exciting plane's history and more information on its structures and systems than has ever been published in a single unclassified source, Steve Pace's B-2 Spirit is the next best thing to flying the most advanced bomber in the world.

History

Military

McGraw=Hill

Synopsis - B-29 Combat Missions takes the reader through every Superfortress crew position, bringing to life what it was like to fly and fight in the advanced bomber that was credited with bringing World War II to a conclusion earlier than predicted. First-hand accounts from crewmembers are coupled with archive and commissioned photos of items of memorabilia, illustrating the dramatic stories of B-29 combat crews in truly vivid detail. Around 75 first-person accounts from Superfortress crewmembers. Each crew position has its own section, the aircraft commander and copilot, the bombardier, the navigator, the flight engineer, the radio operator, the Central Fire Control top, left, and right gunners, the radar operator and the tail gunner. Some 160 archive images, around 45 crew-position photos specially commissioned for this book, and more than 100 artifacts illustrate the remarkable life of this unique aircraft.

B-29 Combat Missions

Donald Nijboer

Metro_Books

Packed with exploded views, cutaway and phantom drawings from technical manuals, rare variants, armament systems, and more. Includes coverage of B-1A prototypes, conventional bombers, time-to-climb records, and production B-1B serial numbers. An information-packed profile. Great information for modellers! WarbirdTech 19.

Boeing North American B-1 Lancer - Warbird Tech Vol. 19

Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers

An authoritative book on the Mustang, its variants and spin-offs. It was one of the main US fighter planes in World War II. Many of the 200-plus images in the book have never been published before and it includes numerous first-hand accounts of the Mustang in battle. This book has numerous appendices, a bibliography, a glossary and an index. Steve Pace is a leading aviation history writer/author based in the United States and a contributing editor to Flight Journal magazine.

Mustang: Thoroughbred Stallion of the Air

Fonthill Media

Osprey's study of the role played by the B-25 Mitchell bombers in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations during World War II (1939-1945). From November 1942 through to May 1945, the backbone of the USAAF's medium bomber force was provided by the clutch of bomb groups equipped with the B-25 Mitchell. First seeing action in North Africa in the wake of Operation Torch, and in the Battle of El Alamein, the 'bombing twin' proved to be one of the most successful allied combat types in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations (MTO). The first of four volumes planned for the Combat Aircraft series on the Mitchell, this title includes first-hand accounts, 30 colour profiles and more than 100 colour and black and white photographs of the B-25 in the MTO.

B-25 Mitchell Units of the MTO

Jim Laurier

Osprey_Publishing

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B-2 Spirit: The Most Capable War Machine on the Planet

B-2 Spirit: The Most Capable War Machine on the Planet

B-29 Combat Missions

Boeing North American B-1 Lancer - Warbird Tech Vol. 19

Mustang: Thoroughbred Stallion of the Air

B-25 Mitchell Units of the MTO