American X&Y Planes Volume 2: Experimental Aircraft Since 1945

by Darling, Kev

• ISBN13: 9781847971470
• ISBN10: 1847971474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: The Crowood Press UK

Summary

Many of the most interesting aircraft ever built existed only as prototypes or experimental types, and many have been overlooked by historians as a result. This book, the second of a two-volume history of the USA's 'X' and 'Y' planes from the earliest years of aviation to the present day, tells the history of these little-known but often very important machines since the end of World War Two. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Kev Darling spent more than twenty years in the Royal Air Force, engineering aircraft ranging in size from the Tiger Moth to the TriStar.  Medically discharged after the first Gulf War he strengthened his writing career, which he had begun in 1986.  Since then he has authored numerous magazine articles and more than twenty books and monographs.  This is his seventh book for Crowood. He lives in Vale of Glamorgan.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Bomber Development After World War Two	p. 7
US Navy Jet Prototypes	p. 48
Post-1945 Prototype and Experimental Fighters	p. 75
Strange and Dangerous Beasties	p. 119
Conclusion	p. 140
Bibliography	p. 141
Index	p. 142
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