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Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts, 1914-1944: Innovation in Air Warfare Before the Jet Age by Jon Guttman (Hardback, 2014)

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Of all military aircraft, fighter planes hold a mystique all their own. Perhaps it is because fighters can afford the least compromise: when the goal is to seize and maintain control of the air, the confrontation is direct. During World War I, the concept of air superiority took hold and in the ensuing decades the development of fighter aircraft became an ongoing back-and-forth battle, with adversaries trying to gain an upper hand through invations in aerodynamics, powerplants, and armament. Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts, 1914-1944: Invation in Air Warfare Before the Jet Age by prominent aviation expert Jon Guttman explores the first combats for a variety of fighters of World War I, the conflicts of the so-called interwar years, and World War II-a thirty-year period that saw the birth of the fighter concept and its maturity on the threshold of the Jet Age. Most of the aircraft described are fairly well kwn to aviation historians and a few names, such as Sopwith Camel, Fokker Triplane, Messerschmitt Me-109, Mitsubishi Zero, North American Mustang, and Supermarine Spitfire, are familiar even to the most n-aviation-minded persons. Not so well-kwn are the circumstances of their combat debuts, in which some, such as the Zero, made their mark almost from the outset, but in which others, like the British Bristol F.2A, showed rather less promise than they would ultimately realize. While a certain amount of space must be devoted to the technical development of these famous fighters, these studies of first combats serve as a reminder that it is the human factor, with all its special quirks, that inevitably came into play when these deadly flying machines first fired their guns. Profusely illustrated, Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts is an authoritative history of one of the most enduring subjects in military aviation.

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Westholme Publishing, U.S.
ISBN-10
159416200x
ISBN-13
9781594162008
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208856041

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Author
Jon Guttman
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Military History
Type
Textbook

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Yardley
Content Note
100 B/w
Author Biography
JON GUTTMAN is an editor at Aviation History magazine, author of more than a dozen books on aviation history-including The Origin of the Fighter Aircraft (also available from Westholme Publishing)-and is an expert on the history of flight during the world wars. He lives in Leesburg, Virginia.
Date of Publication
30/08/2014
Country of Publication
United States

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