Military Aviation

Packed with a 30mm cannon, 2.75 rockets or Hellfire missiles the Apache makes its presence known. Some of the Apache systems are truly amazing such as being able to read a car number plate at 2 miles away with its 127 times-magnification day TV camera. A thermal camera so powerful it can identify a human at over 2 miles and spots of blood on the ground from half a mile. The Apache is the world's most fearsome attack helicopter its pilots refer to flying it as 'Riding the Dragon'.2012 Afghanistan, and 664 Squadron of the Army Air Corps are in daily action over the rugged and harsh Afghan ...

This is a STAND ALONE sequel with a story-line crossover from “Midnight Requisition 2”. “Witness Protection” - Book One “Witness Protection 2 - The Return of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” - Book Two “Witness Protection 3 - Alpha Mike Foxtrot” - Book Three “Witness Protection 4 - O-Dark-Hundred” - Book Four “Witness Protection 5 - Outside the Wire” - Book Five “Witness Protection 6 - Alpha Dogs” - Book Six “Witness Protection 7- Bravo Foxtrot” - Book Seven “Witness Protection 8 – Midnight Requisition” - Book Eight “Witness Protection 9 – S.N.A.F.U.” – ...

Dale Brown is the author of 14 New York Times bestsellers, and now in Plan of Attack, he provocatively turns our attention to the threat of a nuclear attack that is beyond our imaginings.

Since he was a young boy, Joe Balzer dreamed of flying. He pursued his goal with passion and earned his pilot licenses, piling up hours of flight time with a wide variety of planes and jets with one overarching goal: to one day fly for a major airline. But Joe had a problem. He was an alcoholic and refused to admit to himself that he had a problem. His alcoholism caught up with him in March 1990, when Joe was arrested with two other pilots for flying a commercial airliner while under the influence of alcohol.

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the US effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly.

How would a distant intelligence contact earth? Shawna is an Air Force officer with remembrances of the future. Trapped in a structured military world, her unearthly memories persist for nearly three decades, culminating in a message from the stars. Meanwhile, on a distant planet, alien life is struggling with their attempt to communicate with life on earth. Shawna is their target. The author of six books in the series "Coastal British Columbia Stories" ventures into an exciting new genre, military aviation science fiction, where the C-130 Hercules is the biggest hero.

The Cold War drove military innovation and none more than the need to spy on Soviet Bloc countries in the 1950s. The best way to spy other than tap phones and have agents on the ground was from the air. For this several cutting edge aircraft were designed and built by the legendary Kelly Johnson and Lockheed Skunk works – which pushed the boundaries of technology. At the same time a secret airbase to test these revolutionary aircraft in the form of Area 51 came into being. Follow the exciting true story of some very famous aircraft that would fly faster and higher than anything seen ...

Based on official American, French, and German documents, histories, personal memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's key participants, Escape from Paris crosses the traditional lines of World War II history with tense drama of air combat over Europe, the intrigue of occupied Paris, and courageous American and Allied pilots and French resistance fighters pitted against Nazi thugs. All of this set in one of the world's most beautiful and captivating cities.

On a remote lake in Canada, Ashley and Justin seek an off-the-grid lifestyle, while two anomalies merge into one. A distant galaxy exhibits unusual characteristics in Justin's amateur telescope, and something under the lake is stirring. Soon military submarine chasers from two countries are involved, and so are astronomers from around the world. It's a race to discover the meaning of the anomalies, and Ashley and Justin take an unexpected lead in the investigations. Can a determined couple who decide to tackle a remote region bring clarity to the events that are rapidly unfolding?

This is a STAND ALONE sequel. SPOILER ALERT! Contains book #4 spoilers! “Witness Protection” - Book One “Witness Protection 2 - The Return of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” - Book Two “Witness Protection 3 - Alpha Mike Foxtrot” - Book Three “Witness Protection 4 - O-Dark-Hundred” - Book Four “Witness Protection 5 - Outside the Wire” - Book Five “Witness Protection 6 - Alpha Dogs” - Book Six “Witness Protection 7- Bravo Foxtrot” - Book Seven “Witness Protection 8 – Midnight Requisition” - Book Eight “Witness Protection 9 – S.N.A.F.U.” – Book Nine “Witness ...

Military drones have been part of wars for more than 100 years. Today’s military unmanned aerial vehicles are packed with sensors, high-quality cameras, and even weapons. With each UAV flight, military members are kept safe away from war zones. Young listeners will learn how both aerial and underwater military drones operate and get inside details about some of the missions they’ve completed.

Between 1918 and 1955, 60 airmen were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and Two Bars. In this book, recorded for the first time together are the mini-biographies of those 60 along with the citations that accompanied their awards, or in some cases the recommendations for them. As the listener will discover, the range of airmen who received the DFC and Two Bars cover most of the ambit of World War II operations, be they fighter pilots, bomber pilots, night-fighter aircrew, aircrew navigators, engineers, etc, or reconnaissance pilots

Vengeance shows the disastrous results of these decisions on the lowest common denominator: the war fighter. Closely following the actual battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, the listener gets an insider’s view so vivid the smell of cordite will hang in the air.

The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of their commander in chief was the missing aviators were to be immediately replaced. Before the new faces could arrive, the departed men's vacant seats at the dinner table were sometimes poignantly occupied by their caps and boots, placed there in a sad ritual by their surviving colleagues.

Air Force Reserve Major Ford Stevens is a veteran military pilot, upholding the prestigious family practice of service to the nation in the face of danger. His younger brother, Charlie, a fresh lieutenant out of pilot training, joins the family tradition seeking to prove himself. With the rivalry still strong, all he wanted to do was follow his big brother's footsteps. Now, Charlie joins his brother Ford in the same flying squadron, both men putting their lives on the line each time they strap in the jet, whether in peace or war.

In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.

This book is Volume 1 of my memoir and is edited for Large Print and audiobook format. Memoir of an Aviator – My Journey from factory worker to Airline Captain, Volume 1: The Air Force Years is the description of the first half of my professional life and contains details of my enlistment in the Air Force, mechanic training, detailed descriptions of my mechanic days, my choice to become a USAF boom operator, descriptions of training, trips, conversion to the KC-10, more trips, marriage, divorce, joy and heartache. Fly with me as I describe the details that you won't get in other memoirs. ...

In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who served in the 1970s and 1980s, and her personal experiences in the Air Force, Eileen Bjorkman weaves together a tale of the women who fought for the right to enter combat and be treated as equal partners in the U.S. military.

A pilot of calculated courage, "Trap" entered the Navy when test pilots were more like stuntmen than engineers. Airplanes had not yet come into their own as weapons of war, and they had an undeveloped role in the fleet. His vision and leadership shaped the evolution of naval aviation through its formative years and beyond. When the threat of war in 1940 raised an alarm over the Navy's deficiency in aircraft - especially fighters - Trap was appointed to lead the Flight Test Section to direct the development of all-new Navy airplanes.

After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain returned home a changed man. Regaining his health and flight-eligibility status, he resumed his military career, commanding carrier pilots and serving as the navy’s liaison to what is sometimes ironically called the world’s most exclusive club, the United States Senate. Accompanying Senators John Tower and Henry “Scoop” Jackson on international trips, McCain began his political education in the company of two masters, leaders whose standards he would strive to maintain upon his election to the U.S. Congress.