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Free Download Wings – November/December 2023
English | True PDF | 40 Pages | 7.4 MB

Free Download Secret Wings of WWII: Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race by Lance Cole
English | September 19, 2015 | ISBN: 1473823447 | 256 pages | MOBI | 14 Mb
There are many myths and legends surrounding the advanced German aeronautical technology of the Second World War. There are also facts and proven events. Yet within these stories and behind these facts lie conspiracy theories, mistaken assumptions and denials that seem to contradict the evidence. So what really happened? How far ahead were the German scientists? And, of even greater interest, why and how?

Free Download Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition by Sarah Parry Myers
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 146967503X | 256 pages | PDF | 6.59 Mb
Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot’s license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied over three decades of Army Air Force benefits as well as the honor and respect given to male and female World War II veterans of other branches. Sarah Parry Myers not only offers a history of this short-lived program but considers its long-term consequences for the women who participated and subsequent generations of servicewomen and activists.

Free Download Earning Their Wings: The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition by Sarah Parry Myers
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 146967503X | 256 pages | PDF | 6.59 Mb
Established by the Army Air Force in 1943, the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program opened to civilian women with a pilot’s license who could afford to pay for their own transportation, training, and uniforms. Despite their highly developed skill set, rigorous training, and often dangerous work, the women of WASP were not granted military status until 1977, denied over three decades of Army Air Force benefits as well as the honor and respect given to male and female World War II veterans of other branches. Sarah Parry Myers not only offers a history of this short-lived program but considers its long-term consequences for the women who participated and subsequent generations of servicewomen and activists.

Free Download Wings on My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story By Eric M. Brown
2008 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0297856901 | EPUB | 6 MB
Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany in 1939, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realizing he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. Today, at 87, he is in great demand for interviews on history TV documentaries (twelve in 2005!). He is the only man alive who has flown every major (and most minor) combat aircraft of the Second World War as well as all the early jets. Speaking perfect German, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. He would have been the first man to break the sound barrier, except that the British government cancelled the programme and gave the technology to America. His naval career continues to this day, as he advises on the new aircraft carrier design for the Royal Navy. A living legend among aviation enthusiasts, his amazing life story deserves to be told in full — from crashing in front of Winston Churchill to unmasking a Neo-Nazi ring in the 1950s to his terrifying flights in primitive jets and rockets.

Free Download Lance F. Cole, John K. Morton – Jetliners: Wings Across the World
Osprey Publishing | 1990 | ISBN: 0850459559 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 116.96 MB
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Free Download Wings of War: The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly by David Fairbank White, Margaret Stanback White, René Ruiz
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09X98MT3H | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 9 hours and 24 minutes + PDF | 620 Mb
The incredible, untold story behind the rise of the P-51 Mustang, the World War II fighter plane that destroyed the Luftwaffe and made D-Day possible
"Aviation buffs will cheer this high-flying saga."-✅Publishers Weekly "[A] fascinating book about passion and innovation."-Walter Isaacson "An essential book for those who appreciate tales of military bravery, and also for all seeking understanding of decision-making under pressure.A major contribution."-E. J. Dionne, Jr.
When the P-51 Mustang began tearing across European skies in early 1944, the Allies had been losing the air war for years. Staggering numbers of bomber crews, both British and American, had been shot down and killed thanks to the Luftwaffe’s superior fighter force. Not only did the air war appear grim, but any landing of troops in France was impossible while German fighters hunted overhead. But behind the scenes, a team of visionaries had begun to design a bold new type of airplane, one that could outrun and outmaneuver Germany’s best.

Free Download Captain Eric Brown – Wings of the Luftwaffe: Flying the Captured German Aircraft of World War II
Hikoki Publications | 2010 | ISBN: 1902109155 | English | 274 pages | PDF | 296.75 MB
During more than two decades of uninterrupted flying Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown enjoyed the most extraordinary career of any test pilot and no pilot has a logbook that lists a greater variety of aircraft types flown. The first naval officer to head the élite Aerodynamics Flight at the world renowned Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, ‘Winkle’ Brown fulfilled his childhood ambition to fly German aircraft. Indeed, he was to fly no fewer than 55 individual German aircraft types, ranging from such exotic creations as the push-and-pull Dornier Do 335 and the remarkable little Heinkel He 162 Volksjager to the highly innovative combat types that were entering the inventory of the Luftwaffe shortly before the demise of Germany’s Third Reich.

Free Download Captain Eric Brown – Wings of the Luftwaffe: Flying the Captured German Aircraft of World War II
Hikoki Publications | 2010 | ISBN: 1902109155 | English | 274 pages | PDF | 296.75 MB
During more than two decades of uninterrupted flying Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown enjoyed the most extraordinary career of any test pilot and no pilot has a logbook that lists a greater variety of aircraft types flown. The first naval officer to head the élite Aerodynamics Flight at the world renowned Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, ‘Winkle’ Brown fulfilled his childhood ambition to fly German aircraft. Indeed, he was to fly no fewer than 55 individual German aircraft types, ranging from such exotic creations as the push-and-pull Dornier Do 335 and the remarkable little Heinkel He 162 Volksjager to the highly innovative combat types that were entering the inventory of the Luftwaffe shortly before the demise of Germany’s Third Reich.

Free Download Rene J. Francillon, Peter B. Lewis – US Navy Air Wings: Flamboyant Markings, 1965-1975
Osprey Publishing | 1989 | ISBN: 0850458706 | English | 130 pages | PDF | 106.23 MB
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