In the Cockpit: Flying the Wor. This item is unavailable.In the Cockpit: Flying the Wor

Handling the controls of an aircraft has set hearts racing since the days of the earliest open cockpits in the pioneering era of flight. In the Cockpit captures the fascination of flight in the words of the pilots themselves. The reader is taken up in the stick and string biplanes of World War I which fought the first aerial duels above Northern France. General Ira Eaker describes how the practice combats in his diminutive Boeing P26 during the 1930s prepared him for the great air battles of World War II. Johnnie Johnson and Bob Stanford Tuck tell how that war looked to two RAF pilots. The jet age pilots share their combat experiences over Korea and Vietnam, and the book is brought up-to-date with entries of flying the likes of the F-15 Eagle, Tornado and FR-117A Stealth Fighter that saw action in the Gulf War. The book is illustrated throughout by superb aerial color photographs which, together with an outstanding series of action paintings, complement the text in recapturing the sensations of flight. For the technically minded there are detailed artworks and photographs of cockpit interiors. with over 350 illustrations.