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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Some 50,000 aircrew died in World War I. Marked for Death explored the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning nineteen-year-olds...
28) Stealth
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With a roar of speed and a burst of power, fighter planes race into battle. Take to the sky to learn all about the military's fierce fleet of fighter planes. Little Pebble books have an ATOS level of 1.0 or below. Download the Capstone 4D app to access a variety of bonus content."--Provided by publisher.
32) The great book of fighters: an illustrated encyclopedia of every fighter aircraft built and flown
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
36) Early fighters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Drawings, photographs, and text describe a variety of fighter planes, both U.S. and foreign, in use in World Wars I and II, including Britain's Sopwith Camel, the German Fokker and Messerschmitts, the American Curtiss series and the Lockheed Lightning.
38) Fighter planes
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of fighter planes from the dogfights of World War I to the missions flown by modern stealth fighters.
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