Osprey

Osprey
Title Osprey PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Sweetgrass Books
Pages 0
Release 2021-11-09
Genre Nature
ISBN 9781591522973

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The Osprey--Pandion haliaetus--is also known as the Fish Hawk, but that simple label does not do this magnificent bird justice. The Osprey is a master angler whose fish catching skills are unparalleled. There is no other living creature on this planet that comes hurtling out of the sky at speeds exceeding fifty miles an hour, dives feet first into the water, and somehow resurfaces with a fish clutched tightly in its talons. A true apex predator in a league of its own, being on top presents its own unique set of challenges that must be faced and overcome on a daily basis.

Steampunk Soldiers

Steampunk Soldiers
Title Steampunk Soldiers PDF eBook
Author Philip Smith
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 157
Release 2014-11-20
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1472807030

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Between 1887 and 1895, the British art student Miles Vandercroft travelled around the world, sketching and painting the soldiers of the countries through which he passed. In this age of dramatic technological advancement, Vandercroft was fascinated by how the rise of steam technology at the start of the American Civil War had transformed warfare and the role of the fighting man. This volume collects all of Vandercroft's surviving paintings, along with his associated commentary on the specific military units he encountered. It is a unique pictorial guide to the last great era of bright and colourful uniforms, as well as an important historical study of the variety of steam-powered weaponry and equipment that abounded in the days before the Great War of the Worlds.

The Dream Machine

The Dream Machine
Title The Dream Machine PDF eBook
Author Richard Whittle
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 622
Release 2010-04-27
Genre History
ISBN 1416563199

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A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the United States Marine Corps. When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps’ own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft’s problems. Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.

Ospreys

Ospreys
Title Ospreys PDF eBook
Author Alan F. Poole
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages 221
Release 2019-03-19
Genre Science
ISBN 142142715X

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This book shows us why.

Tempest V vs Fw 190D-9

Tempest V vs Fw 190D-9
Title Tempest V vs Fw 190D-9 PDF eBook
Author Robert Forsyth
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 81
Release 2019-09-19
Genre History
ISBN 1472829271

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Arguably two of the finest piston-engined fighters ever built, the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar in terms of aircraft design and operational capability during World War II. The long-nosed 'Dora 9', designed by Kurt Tank, first appeared in the skies over the Western and Eastern Fronts in the late summer of 1944. Fast, and with an exceptional rate of climb, it quickly bettered almost every fighter that the RAF, USAAF and Soviet Red Air Force could field. The Hawker Tempest V entered service in early 1944, initially proving itself a stalwart performer when it was deployed to intercept V1 flying bombs over southern England. From the autumn of 1944, the Tempest V also equipped squadrons of the 2nd Tactical Air Force, operating in support of the Allied armies advancing across north-west Europe. It became a potent ground-attack aircraft, armed with underwing rockets, but also a first-class interceptor when pitted against the Luftwaffe's advanced Fw 190D-9 and Me 262. Featuring full colour artwork, this book describes in fascinating detail combats between the Tempest Vs of No 274 Sqn and the Fw 190D-9s of I. and III./JG 26 between February and April 1945.

Osprey Island

Osprey Island
Title Osprey Island PDF eBook
Author Anne Lindbergh
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 164
Release 1974-01-01
Genre Adventure stories
ISBN 9780395194980

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A brother and sister in Paris and their cousin in Vermont discover magic pictures that bring them together on an island full of adventures.

The Osprey

The Osprey
Title The Osprey PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 480
Release 1901
Genre Ornithology
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