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38 • Jet Age Aviation Birds of Prey: Aircraft, Nose Art & Mission Markings of Operation Desert Shield/Storm David F. Brown. The most complete photo study available of the air war in the Gulf, and covers every unit that participated including French, Italian, British, and Saudi. Photos of USAF, ANG, Navy and Marine Corps, and SAC: F-15s, A-10s, B-52s, F-16s, F-14s, F-111s, F-117 Stealth, C-5s, KC-10s, C-141s, C-13s, KC-135s, U-2/TR-1, and many others. Size: 9”x12” • over 750 color photos • 160pp. ISBN: 0-88740-472-3 • soft • $29.95 Painted Ladies: Modern Military Aircraft Nose Art & Unusual Markings Randy Walker. 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. Size: 9”x12” • over 650 color photos • 128pp. ISBN: 0-88740-392-1 • soft • $29.99 More Painted Ladies: Modern Military Aircraft Nose Art & Unusual Markings Randy Walker. Additional nose art and unusual markings as seen on today’s B-52s, B-1Bs, FB-111s, F-16s, F-4s, and many others, including Desert Storm markings. Size: 9”x12” • over 700 color photos • 144pp. ISBN: 0-88740-514-2 • soft • $24.95 Allied Aircraft Art: Nose Art, Paint Schemes & Unusual Markings on Aircraft from Korea to Desert Storm John M. Campbell & Donna Campbell. This book is a tour through modern aircraft paint schemes and markings, with its shark’s teeth, heavy metal magic, and racy ladies. A full color look at nose-art, paint schemes, and unusual markings on fighter, bomber, and transport aircraft from Korea to Desert Storm. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 270 color photos • 64pp. ISBN: 0-88740-444-8 • soft • $12.95 Adversary: America’s Aggressor Fighter Squadrons Rick Llinares & Chuck Lloyd. Adversary takes an inside look at the dedicated adversary tactics units within the USAF, Navy and Marine Corps. Every unit in this highly specialized group, from the Navy’s well known TOPGUN program to the USAF’s elite 414th Combat Training Squadron is reviewed. Marine Corps Sniper squadron and Navy reserve units are also covered. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 250 color photos • 144pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0688-X • hard • $29.95 Warfighters: A History of the USAF Weapons School and the 57th Wing Llinares & Lloyd. Warfighters takes a first-hand look at how the USAF creates its most elite, highly trained aircrews, and provides an inside look at the USAF Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, one of the Air Force’s most highly classified programs. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 270 color photos, unit insignia • 264pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0044-X • hard • $49.95 Warfighters 2: The Story of the U.S. Marine Corps Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) Rick Llinares & Chuck Lloyd Second installment in the Warfighters series provides an in-depth look at the USMC aviation organization and its specialized training unit, the Marine Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS- 1). Every aircraft operated by the Marines is examined through words and pictures. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 500 color and b/w photos • 352pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0329-5 • hard • $59.95 U.S. Army Aircraft Since 1947: An Illustrated History Stephen Harding. This is the only comprehensive guide to the 124 aircraft and experimental flying machines used by the United States Army since 1947. The definitive reference source on its subject. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 220 b/w and color photos • 264pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0190-X • hard • $45.00 U.S. Army Aviation Color Schemes and Markings 1942 - to the Present Lennart Lundh. This book focuses exclusively on how Army Aviation’s aircraft have been painted and marked during nearly sixty years of service. Official changes in exterior schemes, interior colors, and all forms of markings are covered. Size: 81/2”x11” • 600+ color & b/w photos, illustrations • 208pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1180-8 • hard • $49.95 Edwards Air Force Base - Open House at the USAF Flight Test Center 1957-1966: A Photo Chronicle of Aircraft Displayed Robert D. Archer. The USAF Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB has long been one of the most interesting test sites in the world. This pictorial history covers all of the aircraft shown publicly between 1957-66, with a chapter for each year listing all of the aircraft shown. Size: 81/2”x11” • 600+ color, b/w photos • 232pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0689-8 • hard • $45.00 The Curtiss X-Planes: Curtiss- Wright’s VTOL Effort 1958-1965 Francis H. Dean. A lavishly illustrated story of Curtiss Wright Corporation’s 50s-60s efforts in developing a vertical takeoff (VTOL) aircraft. The author, an insider who headed preliminary design work, gives a brief history of Curtiss Wright, and of the Curtiss Propeller Division that spawned the program, then follows with the development details of the X-100 concept demonstrator and the follow-on X-19 military aircraft. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 340 b/w & color photos, line art • 176pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1434-3 • hard • $49.95 Secret Aerospace Projects of the U.S. Navy: The Incredible Attack Aircraft of the USS United States, 1948-1949 Jared A. Zichek. This is the comprehensive story of some of the most radical attack aircraft ever designed to operate from an aircraft carrier. These incredible projects were developed in 1948 to equip the USS United States, an immense 65,000-ton supercarrier that was to have been the core of the Navy’s nascent strategic nuclear bombardment capability. Recently declassified, details of these fascinating projects are presented here for the first time. Size: 11”x81/2” • over 200 bw images • 232 pp. • hard ISBN: 978-0-7643-3229-6 • $59.99 Air Launch! A Pictorial History of Airborne Weapons Bill Holder & Scott Vadnais. This book examines the history of airborne-launched weapons and a number of variations. Each weapon is given a brief developmental description and a summary of who has implemented it, and includes cross-references to other countries’ similar platforms. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 200 b/w, color photos • 96pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1392-4 • soft • $19.95 Firepower: A History of the Aircraft Gun Scott Vadnais & Bill Holder. This book covers the history of aircraft armament from the early days of World War I when aviators fired hand-held weapons at each other, through the airborne gun advancements during WWII, and finally up to the modern Gatling Guns. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 230 color, b/w photos • 88pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0726-6 • soft • $19.95 Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History James N. Gibson. This new book covers every nuclear delivery system the United States ever deployed. With few exceptions, each weapon and system is illustrated by either color or b/w photos. Each weapon also comes with specifications and a history of its development, deployment and retirement (if retired). Size: 81/2”x11” • over 300 color and b/w photos • 240pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0063-6 • hard • $49.95 The Navaho Missile Project: The Story of the “Know-How” Missile of American Rocketry James N. Gibson. The Navaho program is the least known, yet the most important of the United States early missile programs. In rocket technology alone made possible the Thor, Jupiter and Redstone missiles. It also allowed the construction of the Atlas ICBM’s engines, and in the years to come this engine technology would power the Apollo moon rocket and present-day Space Shuttle. Size: 81/2”x11” • 160+ color and b/w photos, line art • 96pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0048-2 • soft • $19.95 The Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground 1945-1958 Gregory P. Kennedy. In 1945, the United States Army established a testing center for rockets and guided missiles in south-central New Mexico. Named White Sands Proving Ground, this center was the www.schifferbooks.com - see our website for complete book descriptions, sample pages, specials, and updates
locale for many of America’s first steps towards space. Chronicled here are all major activities at the base from 1945-1958. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 200 bw images • 160 pp. • hard ISBN: 978-0-7643-3251-7 • $45.00 Touching Space: The Story of Project Manhigh Gregory P. Kennedy. Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. On each of the three flights, the Air Force placed a lone pilot in a sealed capsule nineteen miles above the ground. At such extreme altitudes, the pilots were well within the functional equivalent of outer space and needed the sealed capsule to survive. Manhigh existed prior to the creation of NASA and helped pave the way for human space exploration. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 130 color/bw images • soft • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-2788-9 • $24.95 Planes of the Presidents: An Illustrated History of Air Force One Bill Holder. This book covers United States presidential aircraft including Boeing Clippers, DC-6s, C-54s, Constellations, 707s and 747s, as well as a variety of Air Force and Marine Corps support aircraft. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 130 b/w and color photos, line drawings • 48pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1187-5 • soft • $19.95 The Book of Air Shows Philip Handleman. This book is a full-color celebration of the great American air shows. Handleman’s camera captures the great variety of civilian and military aircraft from around the world. From the early bi- and triplanes, to the WWII era warbirds, up to the present day F-15 and SR-71, any and all aircraft that fly through the modern air shows is presented. Size: 9”x12” • over 200 color photos • 176pp. ISBN: 0-88740-471-5 • hard • $49.95 Aerial Firefighting Wolfgang Jendsch. Includes fire-extinguishing planes known as airtankers, firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction and command planes essential to successful firefighting. Many rare, never-before-published images show firefighting aircraft in action. The detailed text provides technical descriptions of forest fire fighting and speculates on the future of firefighting aviation. Size: 9”x12” • 415 color photos • 352 pp. • hard ISBN: 978-0-7643-3068-1 • $49.99 R.G. Smith: The Man and His Art An Autobiography with Rosario “Zip” Rausa. “R.G.” describes his transition from helping design tactical aircraft to painting them in such compelling and dramatically beautiful fashion that he earned a worldwide reputation as one of the most skilled and admired aviation artists of all time. Includes an excellent sampling of his non-aviation art depicting landscape, harbor and other scenes from the far west. Size: 11”x81/2” • 140+ color & b/w images • 112pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0755-X • hard • $29.95 Unmanned Air Vehicles: An Illustrated Study of UAVs Bill Holder. Although the prime mission of military UAVs has been reconnaissance and surveillance, there is also consideration for mounting weapons on the vehicles. Surprisingly, just about every type of propulsion system has been considered, and they have used both single and multiple engines, with piston, rotary, turbojet, pulsejet, and rocket engines. Size: 81/2”x11” • 150+ color & b/w photos • 72pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1500-5 • soft • $19.95 Other Countries MiG-29 Flight Manual Alan R. Wise. The MiG-29 Fulcrum is acknowledged as the finest lightweight, multi-role fighter ever produced in Russia. This book provides a rare and unprecedented glimpse inside a top Russian aircraft. Using information that only a few years ago was highly classified, this translated text presents an extraordinary look at the capabilities and complexities of one of the very best fighters of the current age. Size: 81/2”x11” • 110+ color photos, charts • 160pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1389-4 • soft • $24.95 Dassault Mirage: The Combat Log Salvador Mafé Huertas. The first book ever to chronicle in detail all of the Mirage III, 5, F1 and 2000 aircraft and specifically their use in combat operations. The Mirage has seen more combat than any present day jet fighter, including action in the Six-Days War, the Falklands, the Gulf War and many other lesser known conflicts. Size: 9”x12” • 400+ color and b/w photos • 208pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0168-3 • hard • $59.95 The Israeli Air Force 1947-1960: An Illustrated History Salvador Mafé Huertas. Israel exists because of the resolute people that live in this small country, both civilian and military, but above all because of the Chel Ha’avir, which in the following years would be proclaimed the most combat experienced air force in the world. Size: 81/2”x11” • 190+ b/w & color photos • 176pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0390-2 • hard • $35.00 Flying Dragons: The South Vietnamese Air Force Robert C. Mikesh. This book contains the most complete history of the South Vietnamese Air Force. In many ways, this is an American story; since VNAF was organized, trained, equipped, and attained its maximum strength under the tutelage of the U.S. military. This updated book now features an abundance of color photos and new incites of the air force’s role in that war that have settled with time. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 300 b/w, color photos • 224pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2158-7 • hard • $49.95 Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980- 1988 Tom Cooper & Farzad Bishop. This book focuses on the role of the air power in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988, one of most underesti- mated and under-researched events in the history of aerial warfare. The authors have made full use of extensive research, eyewitness accounts, interviews with dozens of people directly involved, as well as recently declassified documents and photos from around the world which are published here for the first time. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 200 black and white and color photos, charts, maps • 304pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1669-9 • hard • $39.95 GERMAN AVIATION World War I World War I German Aviators: The Sanke Cards Charles Woolley. Clear, large scale copies of all known and highly collectible Sanke personality photo postcards produced during WWI are now available, carefully replicated, and included all under one cover in this deluxe volume. Over 270 different cards of 132 individual aviators are included in this ground-breaking edition. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 300 b/w photos • 272pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1879-9 • hard • $69.95 Schlachtflieger! Germany and the Origins of Air/Ground Support • 1916-1918 Duiven & Abbott. This book presents, in words and pictures, the history of the Schutzstaffeln from their formation as escort aircraft, to their being renamed Schlachtstaffeln and their role as infantry support aircraft. Participating in all the major German offenses on the Western Front in 1918, and manned mainly by enlisted pilots and gunners, these units became the first true close air support squadrons. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 200 b/w photos, color aircraft profiles, maps • 400pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2441-1 • hard • $79.95 The Imperial German Eagles in World War I: Their Postcards and Pictures Lance J. Bronnenkant. Postcards featuring German WWI aviators have been collected, traded, and reproduced in many publications over the years, but no author until now has focused on determining when, where, why, and by whom these pictures were taken, or when and why they were issued as postcards. This work pursues the answers to those questions, and unfolds like a detective story that relates the investigation and assembly of evidence from a wide variety of sources. Size: 81/2”x11” • over 600 b/w photos • 400pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2440-3 • hard • $69.95 The Imperial German Eagles in World War I • Vol.2 Lance J. Bronnenkant. This book, the second in a planned three-part series, looks at the remainder of Sanke’s aviator cards numbered 544-685. Sanke, Liersch and NPG postcards featuring German World War I aviators have been collected, traded, and reproduced in many publications over the years, but no author until now has focused on determining when, German Aviation • 39 see our website for complete book descriptions, sample pages, specials, and updates - www.schifferbooks.com
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