Military aircraft from the biplanes and aerial dogfights to the missile-armed supersonic jets of today are described and illustrated; also includes true stories of pilots and combats.
Following the development of massive airships, naive Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble. But although...
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Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer.
The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and ...
The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and ...
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The War in the Air: And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908
In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a ruthless struggle for...
There were flashes of light in the sky, a spotter from the Light Airborne reporting his best guess as to the relationship between city walls and the second ranging shot. Nearby, a lieutenant of the Engineers translated calmly, ...
Marc Patrick Wiggam, 'The Blackout in Britain and Germany During the Second World War', PhD thesis, University of Exeter (2011). George K. Williams, Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I (Maxwell Air Force Base: Air ...