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Fighter pilot : the memoirs of legendary ace Robin Olds

Tác giả: Robin Olds, Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus

Robin Olds was many things to many people. To his West Point football coach he was an All American destined for the National College Football Hall of Fame. To his P-38 and P-51 wartime squadrons in WWII he was the aggressive fighter pilot who made double ace and became their commander in nine short ...

MiG-21 Units of the Vietnam war (Osprey combat aircraft 29)

Tác giả: István Toperczer

Osprey's study of the use of MiG-21 Units in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Having honed their piloting skills on the subsonic MiG-17 and transonic MiG-19, the Vietnamese Peoples’ Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966. Soon thrown into ...

MiG 17 and MiG 19 Units of the Vietnam war (Osprey Combat Aircraft 25)

Tác giả: István Toperczer

The erstwhile enemy of the USAF and US Navy during the nine years of American involvement in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) quickly grew from an ill-organised rabble of poorly trained pilots flying antiquated communist aircraft into a highly effective fighting ...

Mirage III vs. MiG-21 : Six day war, 1967

Tác giả: Shlomo Aloni

Although the opposing forces of the Six Day War were both flying comparable third-generation Mach 2 jet fighters, the pilots were trained to different standards, and were expected to utilize different tactics. Using the latest research, first-hand accounts, and specially commissioned artwork, ...

USN F-4 Phantom II vs. VPAF MiG-17/19 : Vietnam, 1965-73

Tác giả: Peter Davies

The Vietnam War placed unexpected demands upon American military forces and equipment, which had been focused on the probability of tactical nuclear warfare. The principal US naval fighter, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom, had originally been designed to defend the Fleet from air attack at long range. ...