Author: Film Com Periscope Film ComPublish On: 2006-04
Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in January of 1944, the B-29 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know about the "Superfort" Originally classified "Restricted," the manual was ...
Author: Film Com Periscope Film Com
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781411687790
Category: Transportation
Page: 102
View: 566
The Boeing B-29 was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of WWII. It featured many innovations including guns that could be fired by remote control and pressurized crew compartments. It was also the heaviest production plane of the war with terrific range and bomb carrying capabilities. Carrying a crew of ten, the Superfortress devastated Japan in a series of gigantic raids in 1944-45. In the end it would be the B-29s "Enola Gay" and "Bock's Car" that dropped the atomic bombs and effectively ended the conflict. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in January of 1944, the B-29 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know about the "Superfort" Originally classified "Restricted," the manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable facsimile has been reformatted, and color images appear as black and white. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.
Author: Film Com Periscope Film ComPublish On: 2006-04
Author: Film Com Periscope Film Com
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781411687790
Category: Transportation
Page: 102
View: 215
The Boeing B-29 was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of WWII. It featured many innovations including guns that could be fired by remote control and pressurized crew compartments. It was also the heaviest production plane of the war with terrific range and bomb carrying capabilities. Carrying a crew of ten, the Superfortress devastated Japan in a series of gigantic raids in 1944-45. In the end it would be the B-29s "Enola Gay" and "Bock's Car" that dropped the atomic bombs and effectively ended the conflict. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in January of 1944, the B-29 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know about the "Superfort" Originally classified "Restricted," the manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable facsimile has been reformatted, and color images appear as black and white. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.
llLLUIIII INN MIM5 loll-MM ll~ IIGIII I“ - loo'a For long range oruiaing below 15,000
foet- aet RPM to maintain 155 MPH pilot's indicated airspeed with 29 :1 inch
manifold presaure. Above 20,000 root use 150,MPH pilot's indicated alrapaad
and ...
Author: Periscope Film LLC
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781411687257
Category: Transportation
Page: 180
View: 992
The Boeing B-17 was the first mass-produced, four-engine heavy bomber. Used throughout World War II for strategic bombing, the plane earned a reputation for its toughness and versatility. Carrying a crew of ten, and 8,000 pounds of bombs on long range missions, the '17 wreaked havoc on Germany during the critical years 1942-45. The ""Memphis Belle,"" the first B-17 to fly 25 missions over Europe, is perhaps the most famous plane to emerge from the European Theatre. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in December of 1942, the B-17 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know about the "Queen of the Skies." Originally classified "Restricted," the manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable facsimile has been reformatted, and color images appear as black and white. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.
Author: United States. Army Air Forces. Office of Flying SafetyPublish On: 1945
Note : No checks of automatic opening of oil cooler doors can be performed
readily before starting engines . gunners ' positions . ... If excessive oil leaks are
encountered in flight , the quantity of oil lost can be held to a minimum by manually reducing oil ... Many of the controls in the B - 29 are RESTRICTED 177
RESTRICTED.
Author: United States. Army Air Forces. Office of Flying Safety
AN 01-20EJA-1 rack 1 RACK | Total load=12 BoMBs forward bomb bay ...
Switches contained in this box turn on the power and operate the camera
computer, and guns; however, primary control of the upper forward turret is by the
...
Author: United States Army Air ForcePublish On: 2007-06
To obtain sufficient dilution of the oil to facilitate starting, allow the engine to cool
either by idling or stopping after flight, before ... Head Oil +4 to —12°C 6 150°C
50°C (+2] to 0°F) —12 to —29°C 10 145°C 45°C (0 to —20°F} —29 to —46°C I4
...
Author: United States Army Air Force
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781430321989
Category: History
Page: 183
View: 501
In April of 1942, sixteen American bombers raided Tokyo, Japan. The planes were land-based B-25 Mitchells, audaciously launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, and led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle. The attack caused little actual damage, but dealt a serious blow to Japanese morale. More importantly, it gave hope to an American public still reeling from Pearl Harbor. Manufactured by North American Aviation, the B-25 saw service in every theatre of WWII. It carried a crew of six, and could loft a maximum load of 6,000 pounds of bombs. Originally printed by North American and the U.S. Army Air Force, this Flight Operating Handbook taught pilots everything they needed to know before entering the cockpit. Classified "Restricted," the manual was declassified and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable facsimile has been slightly reformatted. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.
Microfilm Roll AC-2, 42-24880 Through 42-72566 Aircraft Record Cards,
Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB AL. _____. Microfilm Roll AC-4, ... Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions for Army Model B-29Airplanes. Technical Manual AN ...
Author: Robert A. Mann
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482761
Category: Transportation
Page: 288
View: 649
The B-29 Superfortress was for many years a cornerstone of American military aviation. Best known as a bomber, it also served in reconnaissance, as a tanker, and as a rescue plane. It was a crucial tool for American and Allied forces during World War II, Korea and beyond. This operational history of the B-29 gives in-depth information on the career of each plane. A list of the names and serial numbers of the planes, each plane’s history from delivery date to removal from service, a description of the B-29’s physical characteristics and performance parameters, and a description of the five B-29 variants are provided. Sections of the book give complete mission data for the B-29’s World War II service in the China-Burma-India theater of operations, operations over Japan, aerial mining missions and test atomic bombing runs.
The Last Bomb , War Department , First Motion Picture Unit Army Air Forces ,
1945 Biography of a Bomber , AZ ... 27 , July 1944 Pilot ' s Flight Operating Instructions for the Army Model B - 29 Airplanes , AN 01 - 20EJ - 1 , U . S . Army
Air Force ...
Author: William Wolf
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: STANFORD:36105123222296
Category: History
Page: 360
View: 766
Although many books have been published about the B-29, none has been an in-depth look, with most being either superficial pictorials or focusing on the bombing campaigns, particularly the incendiary attacks and atomic bombings. This book, using rare, previously unexplored sources, intends to provide the definitive look at the bomber and crew, detailing every facet for the air enthusiast, historian and modeler. The author was granted rare access to the Pima Air and Space Museum's restored B-29 "Sentimental Journey" for inspection and photography, resulting in the most extensive photographic documentation of the B-29 ever published. The Pima Museum's archives, filled with B-29 technical and crew manuals also gave the author extensive information that had not been previously published. These sources, the author's extensive personal library, and microfilm resources enabled the author to produce this comprehensive look at the bomber and its crew in the context of the bomber's development and operational use. It is truly monumental in scope, both in words and photos. AUTHOR:
Author: Film Com Periscope Film ComPublish On: 2006-04
"The Boeing B-29 was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of WWII. It featured many innovations including guns that could be fired by remote control and pressurized crew compartments.
Author: Film Com Periscope Film Com
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781411687790
Category: Transportation
Page: 102
View: 886
The Boeing B-29 was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of WWII. It featured many innovations including guns that could be fired by remote control and pressurized crew compartments. It was also the heaviest production plane of the war with terrific range and bomb carrying capabilities. Carrying a crew of ten, the Superfortress devastated Japan in a series of gigantic raids in 1944-45. In the end it would be the B-29s "Enola Gay" and "Bock's Car" that dropped the atomic bombs and effectively ended the conflict. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in January of 1944, the B-29 Bomber Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know about the "Superfort" Originally classified "Restricted," the manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable facsimile has been reformatted, and color images appear as black and white. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.
12 2. Flight Controls . _. . . . . . 1 t. Oxygen System . . . . . . . . I 12 a. Control Stick 1
in Automatic Pilot System . . . . . 15 b. Rudder ... 29 k. Parking Brake Control . . . . .
10 f. Map and Instrument Case . . . . 30 l. Rudder Pedal Adjustment . . . . 11 g.
Author: United States Navy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781430317494
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 84
View: 135
En instruktionsbog (Flight Manual) for SBD Dauntless.
Flight Check-off List Control Wheel Push-Pull for Selection of Heat or Windshield
Detrosting Tell-Tale Switch Hydraulic ... Indicator Turn Indicator Marker Beacon
Supercharger Controls Radio Compass Gyro Horizon .5-.. .-1 15"1 . nu. 28. 29.
Author: Periscope Film Com
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781411613218
Category: Transportation
Page: 156
View: 951
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator first saw combat in June of 1942, making a daring raid into Nazi-occupied Romania to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti. Nearly 18,500 Liberators were built during the war years, making it by far the most-produced American combat aircraft. It served in many roles beyond heavy bomber, transport, and anti-submarine patrol, and flew in Africa, Europe, India, the Atlantic, India and the Pacific Theatre. Originally printed by the United States Army Air Force in 1942, the B-24 Liberator Pilot's Flight Operating Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know before entering the cockpit. Originally classified "Restricted," the manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This affordable facsimile has been reformatted, and color images appear as black and white. Care has been taken however to preserve the integrity of the text.
Author: United States Air ForcePublish On: 2008-09
Classified ¿Restricted¿, the text was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This impressive facsimile presents the manual in its entirety.
Author: United States Air Force
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781935327264
Category:
Page: 228
View: 428
The Boeing B-29 was one of the most sophisticated aircraft of WWII. It featured many innovations including guns that could be fired by remote control and pressurized crew compartments. It was also the heaviest production plane of the war, with terrific range and bomb-carrying capabilities. Carrying a crew of ten, the Superfortress devastated Japan in a series of raids in 1944-45. Finally, in August of 1945, the B-29s "Enola Gay" and "Bock's Car" dropped the atomic bombs and forced Japan to surrender. Originally printed by the U.S. Army Air Force, this B-29 Airplane Commander Pilot's Training Manual taught pilots everything they needed to know about the Superfortress. Classified ¿Restricted¿, the text was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. This impressive facsimile presents the manual in its entirety. It is over 200 pages long, and reproduced in its original multi-color glory for the first time ever.
As part of their continuing training as fighter pilots, Nagatsuka and twenty-six
others were attached to a squadron responsible for defending Kyushu against
raids of American B-29 bombers flying from bases in China and now from the ...
Author: David Sears
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 9780806535968
Category: History
Page: 496
View: 832
A Main Selection of the Military Book Club and a Featured Alternate of the History Book Club In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders"; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze. Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes. David Sears, acclaimed author of The Last Epic Naval Battle, draws on personal interviews and unprecedented research to create a narrative of war that is stunning in its vivid re-creations. Born of desperation in the face of overwhelming material superiority, suicide attacks--by aircraft, submarines, small boats, and even manned rocket-boosted gliders--were capable of inflicting catastrophic damage, testing the resolve of officers and sailors as never before. Sears's gripping account focuses on the vessels whose crews experienced the full range of the kamikaze nightmare. From carrier USS St. Lo, the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by an orchestrated kamikaze attack, to USS Henrico, a transport ship that survived the landings at Normandy only to be sent to the Pacific and struck by suicide planes off Okinawa, and USS Mannert L. Abele, the only vessel sunk by a rocket-boosted piloted glider during the war, these unforgettable stories reveal, as never before, one of the most horrifying and misunderstood chapters of World War II. This is the candid story of a war within a war--a relentless series of furious and violent engagements pitting men determined to die against men determined to live. Its echoes resonate hauntingly at a time of global conflict, when suicide as a weapon remains a perplexing and terrifying reality. November 1, 1945--Leyte Gulf The destroyer Killen (DD-593) was besieged, shooting down four planes, but taking a bomb hit from a fifth. Pharmacist mate Ray Cloud, watching from the fantail, saw the plane--a sleek twin-engine Frances fighter-bomber--swoop in low across the port side. As its pilot released his bomb, Cloud said to himself, "He dropped it too soon," and then watched as the plane roared by--pursued and chewed up by fire from Killen's 40- and 20-mm guns. The bomb hit the water, skipped once and then penetrated Killen's port side hull forward, exploding between the #2 and #3 magazines. The blast tore a gaping hole in Killen's side and water poured in. By the time Donice Copeland, eighteen, a radar petty officer, emerged on deck from the radar shack, the ship's bow was practically submerged and the ship itself was nearly dead in the water. Practically all the casualties were awash below decks. Two unwounded sailors, trapped below in the ship's emergency generator room, soon drowned. The final tally of dead eventually climbed to fifteen.
Also as before, three B-29 bomber groups – the 19th, 98th and 307th BG – were operating from bases in Japan and Okinawa, but now in small groups with heavy
fighter cover, and outside of MiG Alley. Two light bomber groups, flying the ...
Author: Igor Seidov
Publisher: Helion and Company
ISBN: 9781910294314
Category: History
Page: 600
View: 722
The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft in the world in this period of history came together in pitched air battles. The analysis of the air war showed that the powerful United States Air Force and its allies were unable to achieve complete superiority in the air and were unable to fulfill all the tasks they'd been given. Soviet pilots and Soviet jet fighters, which were in no way inferior to their opponents and in certain respects were even superior to them, was the reason for this. The combat experience and new tactical aerial combat tactics, which were tested for the first time in the skies of Korea, have been eagerly studied and applied by modern air forces around the world today. This book fully discusses the Soviet participation in the Korean War and presents a view of this war from the opposite side, which is still not well known in the West from the multitude of publications by Western historians. The reason for this, of course, is the fact that Soviet records pertaining to the Korean War were for a long time highly classified, since Soviet air units were fighting in the skies of North Korea "incognito", so to speak or even more so to write about this was strictly forbidden in the Soviet Union right up to its ultimate collapse. The given work is in essence the first major work in the post-Soviet era. First published in a small edition in Russian in 1998, it was republished in Russia in 2007. For the first time, the Western reader can become acquainted with the most detailed and informative work existing on the course of the air war from the Soviet side, now in English language. The work rests primarily on the recollections of veterans of this war on the so-called 'Red' side - Soviet fighter pilots, who took direct part in this war on the side of North Korea. Their stories have been supplemented with an enormous amount of archival documents, as well as the work of Western historians. The author presents a literal day-by-day chronicle of the aerial combats and combat work of Soviet fighter regiments in the period between 1950 and 1953, and dedicates this work to all the men on both sides who fought and died in the Korean air war.
“In wartime we need the best we can get up in the air, and you two are the best pilots I have. This is a highly ... The book was the Airplane Commander Training Manual for the Superfortress. I flipped it open to the table of contents: “Operating Instructions”; “Flight Operating Data”, “Emergency Operating Instructions”, “ Operational ... The B-29 manual reminded me of Man and the Motor Car and
How to Drive, the books I'd borrowed from the library when I was teaching myself
to drive.
Author: Jennifer Niven
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543752
Category: Fiction
Page: 432
View: 605
From the author of Holding up the Universe and the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places. After Pearl Harbor, Velva Jean signs up for service and gets her wings, risking her life—and her heart. Velva Jean Hart, the fiercely independent heroine of Jennifer Niven's (Becoming Clementine) spectacular debut novel, Velva Jean Learns to Drive, returns in a captivating adventure that literally sends her soaring. Bristling at the limitations faced by a woman in rural Appalachia and fuelled by the memory of her late Mama telling her to "live out there," Velva Jean hits the road to pursue her dream of singing at the Grand Ole Opry. But after a string of auditions, she begins to lose hope—until her brother pays her a surprise visit and treats Velva Jean to a flying lesson that ignites a brand-new dream: to become a female pilot. Funny, poignant, and utterly unforgettable, Velva Jean Learns to Fly will have fans cheering all over again.
Author: American Council on EducationPublish On: 1978
AF - 1606-0039 AF - 1606-0042 MEDIUM BOMBARDMENT CONVENTIONAL , B29 FOUR - ENGINE TRANSITION ( SCANNER GUNNER ) Course Number :
123100C . ... Instruction : Lectures and practical experience in emergency
procedures , aircraft operation , instruments , preflight ... Objectives : To provide pilots ...
Navigators were forced to train in medium bombers and bombardiers trained in
heavy bombers with an occasional run in a YB-29 (Y being the designation for aircraft under "Service Test"). Pilots and new recruits had to get by flying in B-17s
for ...
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0938021281
Category: History
Page: 112
View: 614
The story of the 40th Bomb Group in the Pacific is told in this fantastic account - India, China, Tinian, Japan, etc.
