Air Power (Small Panorama Series) - Hardcover

Flack, Jeremy

9780785824619: Air Power (Small Panorama Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0785824618 ISBN 13: 9780785824619

Publisher: Chartwell Books, 2009

This book reveals as never before the military might of the various military aviation forces serving the United States today. To create the spectacular images in this book the author and other photographers have flown “up close and dirty,” “gone down among the weeds” and “hurled through the sky.” In this superb volume are the exciting results.

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From the Publisher:

Spectacular color photographs of America's mightiest warplanes and helicopters plus in-depth development details and specifications make this title a must-have for any airpower enthusiast!

From the Inside Flap:

This book reveals as never before the military might of the various military aviation forces serving the United States today: the Air force, the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps.

To create the spectacular images in this book the author and other photographers flown "up close and dirty" in and next to enormous bombers such as the all-powerful B-52 Stratofortress and the stealthy B-2 Spirit. They have gone done among the weeds with the tank-busting A-10 Thunderbolt II, have hurtled through the sky with fighters such as the Eagle, Hornet and the all-new Raptor, have watched thousands of gallons of fuel being pumped from massive aerial tankers into even more capacious transport aircraft, and hovered over oceans and dusty battlefields with a wide variety of attack and cargo-carrying helicopters.

In this superb, all-color volume are the exiting results. A collection of immensely powerful photos of the mighty American aircraft thet instill "shock and awe" into any opponent while thrilling aviation enthusiats the world over. Together with the superb photographs are essential technical specifications and fascinating development/service histories of the aircraft, making "Airpower" a masterpiece of aviation publishing.

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