Flexible leatherette covers. Solid retired US Army library book with usual library markings; else VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Tabbed sections based on country of origin. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the Foreword: The ultimate purpose of all military training is to mold men and weapons into effective fighting units ready for combat. Readiness implies the ability to size up a situation, make a decision, and act correctly-all in a limited time. During the heat of combat, when your life and those of others are jeopardized, you will find it difficult to remain cool and collected, and there will be no time to weigh decisions. You must act instinctively. With this in mind training periods are designed to develop a man's knowledge and skill, sharpen his tactics, and improve his judgment. Recognition training is given because visual recognition of aircraft plays a vital part in many combat situations. As long as men fly in airplanes and anti-aircraft gunners are called upon to track and fire at low-flying aircraft, someone must distinguish FRIEND from FOE, to prevent the tragic "mistakes" that are bound to occur when the fighting man is not fully trained. There are those who believe that with supersonic aircraft one will not have the time to identify aircraft visually. Experienced pilots who have considerable time or flight experience in supersonic aircraft say that it is possible to recognize target aircraft 98 percent of the time during supersonic passes before firing range is reached. And they say with supersonic flight experience and aircraft recognition training, 100 percent recognition is possible. Speeds are a matter of relativity. The closure rate for supersonic combat cannot be high if the weapons are to be effective-50 to 100 knots in most effective types of passes before the point of breakaway. So, rate of travel of modern combat aircraft doesn't mean that visual recognition is obsolete; it means it must better than ever.

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Aircraft Recognition Manual

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