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Norman Polmar

Spyplanes

The Illustrated Guide to Manned Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft from World War I to Today

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A comprehensive history with descriptions of the world's most significant aircraft employed as eyes in the sky.For as long as there has been sustained heavier-than-air human flight, airplanes have been used to gather information about our adversaries. Less than a decade after the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, Italian pilots were keeping tabs on Turkish foes in Libya. Today, aircraft with specialized designs and sensory equipment still cruise the skies, spying out secrets in the never-ending quest for an upper hand.Spyplanes tackles the sprawling legacy of manned aerial reconnaissance, from hot air balloons to cloth-and-wood biplanes put… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Bessette, John
  • ISBN: 978-0-7603-5155-0
  • EAN: 9780760351550
  • Produktnummer: 35541256
  • Verlag: Voyageur Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 22'112 KB
  • Abbildungen: 61 color & 96 b-w photos

Über den Autor


Norman Polmar is an author and historian specializing in the naval, aviation, and intelligence fields. He has written or coauthored more than fifty books, including Spyplane: The U-2 History Declassified (2001) and, with John Gresham, DEFCON-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis (2006; foreword by Tom Clancy). The latter was the basis of the Discovery Channel film DEFCON-2, in which Tom Clancy did the opening and closing scenes. Mr. Polmar also has written about aircraft in other books and was author of nine editions of the reference work Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet and four editions of Guide to the Soviet Navy. He writes a column on historic naval aircraft for Naval History magazine and is a columnist for the US Naval Institute Proceedings.

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