Military Aviation


Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
The Rise Of The Luftwaffe
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Fighting the Flying Circus: The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come out of World War I
Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly
Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
Warplanes of the Luftwaffe: A Complete Guide to the Combat Aircraft of Hitler's Luftwaffe from 1939 to 1945
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
Flight: The Complete History
Yeager: An Autobiography
Lawrence A. Colby
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Hank Bracker
During World War II the top secret “Norden XV” or “Blue Ox” otherwise known the Army Airforce’s “Norden M Series Bombsights,” were used up to and including the Vietnam War by all American military aircraft with bomb carrying capabilities. This bombsight was considered a “Canonical Tachometric Design” meaning that it had the ability to measure the aircraft's direction and ground speed. In time the Norden improved its original design by using a computer that constantly calculated the aircraft’s fl ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise"

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