Flying Combat Aircraft of the USAAF-USAF vol.III PDF
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Combat Flying Aircraft of the U5AAF-USAF Combat Flying Aircraft of the U5AAF-U5AF Vol. Ill EDITED BY ROBIN HIGHAM AND CAROL WILLIAMS Sunflower University Press BOX 1009 . MANHATTAN KANSAS 66502. USA Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Flying combat aircraft of the USAAF-USAF. Vo—l. 3 edited by R. Higham and C. Wi—lliams. — 1. Airplanes, Military History. 2. Aeronautics, Military United States History. I. Higham, Robin D. S. II. Siddall, Abigail T., 1930- III. Williams, Carol, 1942- UG1243.F55 358.41'8'3 75-8932 ISBN 0-8138-0325-X ISBN 0-8138-0375-6 (v. 2) ISBN 0-89745-016-7 (v. 3, hardback) ISBN 0-89745-017-5 (v. 3, paper) Copyright 1981 Air Force Historical Foundation All rights reserved. fIlMJ;-MGA-NHAPTTARNEKASNSASS Contents 9 The XP-40 by Mark E. Bradley 17 The P-40 by Bruce K. Holloway 23 The Forty, The Spit, and The Jug by John A. C. Andrews 29 The Flying Fortress and The Liberator by Ira C. Eaker 35 F-100 Super Sabre by Garth Blakely 39 The C-130 by Robert Lee Clark 45 Flying the North American 0-47 and the Curtiss-Wright 0-52 by Rick Glasebrook 52 The Acquisition of the Seversky EP-1 (P-35) by the Royal Swedish Air Force by Nils Soderberg 55 The P-39 Airacobra in Europe by James J. Hudson — 61 Slipping the Surly Bonds with a Zip The F-104 by Robert E. Messerli 69 The RC-121D "Warning Star" Constellation by Russell E. Mohney 73 Transition from C-141s to Helicopters by Gary L. Stevens 81 The Vultee BT-13A by Al Strunk with Robin Higham — 87 The Old DH A Memorable Airplane by John F. Whiteley 91 The T-29 by John Zimmerman 97 Flying the F-15 Eagle by George W. Hawks 105 Spad XIII by Roland W. Richardson — 110 The B-18 A Reminiscence by Winton R. Close 114 South Atlantic Express by Winton R. Close 6 Introduction StartingintheFirstWorldWar, manualsbegantoappeartohelpnewpilotslearn how to handle different types of aircraft. At first, these were a necessity because new types appeared every few months. Later, they were required because the aircraft became more and more complex. To get some idea of this, merely com- — parethepicture (opposite) oftheP-26cockpitwiththatonpage8oftheP-40's and theseaircraftwere separated by only a fewyears in the 1930s. The quantum jump occurs in contrasting the P-40's cockpit with that of the F-104 on page 63. Butthisbookisnotaboutmanuals, becausesuchbookletsortomes, astheyhave become,donottellthewholestoryby any means. The authorsofthechaptershere are all pilots who have flown the aircraft of which they write, and they have attempted to preserve for us how the type behaved and what the pilot had todo to handle it. It is unfortunate, but of the thousands of aircraft built, very few end up beingpreservedandflown,andthustheknowledgeofwhattheywereliketoflydies with the pilots unless it is put forth in books such as this. WiththisthirdvolumeintheseriesFlying CombatAircraftofthe USAAF-USAF, the Air Force Historical Foundation hopes that it has preserved and published a valuable part of aviation history. 8
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