Fighting Cockpits by Nijboer, Donald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents Foreword: By Eric Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, RN Former Chief Naval Test Pilot, RAE Farnborough Introduction 1 World War: I Wind in the Wires

Nieuport 28 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 Bristol F.2B Fokker Dr.I Sopwith Camel Sopwith Triplane AEG G.IV SPAD VII Halberstadt CL.IV Fokker D.VII

2 Between the Wars: The Rise of the Monoplane

Martin MB-2 Hawker Hind Fiat CR.32 Boeing P-26 Peashooter Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk Vought SB2U Vindicator Westland Lysander PZL P.11

3 World War II Death at 30,000 Feet

Supermarine Spitfire Messerschmitt Bf 109 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt North American P-51 Mustang Handley Page Halifax Vickers Wellington Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger Fairey Firefly Fiat CR.42 Ilyushin Il-2 Šturmovík Heinkel He 219 Uhu Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryuū Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Northrop P-61 Black Widow Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Boeing B-29 Superfortress Dornier Do 335 Pfeil Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe Arado Ar 234 Blitz

4 Cold War to the Present Mutually Assured Destruction

North American F-86 Sabre Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Grumman A-6 Intruder General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark Hawker Siddeley Harrier McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F-15 Eagle Grumman F-14 Tomcat Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II General Dynamics/ Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon Mikoyan MiG-29 Rockwell B-1 Lancer Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter

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