The American Flying Boat: An Illustrated HistoryNaval Institute Press, 1979 - 262 pagine First published in 1979, this fully illustrated study includes complete data on all of the Navy's flying boats since 1912. |
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... field of aviation , but also an aircraft capable of crossing the Atlantic would have immediate application in the ... Wright patent dispute surfacing to mar the occasion . A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals had gone against ...
... field of aviation , but also an aircraft capable of crossing the Atlantic would have immediate application in the ... Wright patent dispute surfacing to mar the occasion . A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals had gone against ...
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... field of aviation . Perhaps the most significant progress occurred in the area of engine design , a particularly ... Wright Aeronautical Corporation , and his engine with further improvements became known as the Wright Whirlwind . It ...
... field of aviation . Perhaps the most significant progress occurred in the area of engine design , a particularly ... Wright Aeronautical Corporation , and his engine with further improvements became known as the Wright Whirlwind . It ...
Pagina 84
... field at the Philadelphia Navy Yard . The pilot , Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics Rogers , was coming ... Wright R - 1750 geared radials . The final two PN - 11s were ultimately fitted with Wright 1820-64 radial engines of ...
... field at the Philadelphia Navy Yard . The pilot , Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics Rogers , was coming ... Wright R - 1750 geared radials . The final two PN - 11s were ultimately fitted with Wright 1820-64 radial engines of ...
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CHAPTER THREE The Nancy Boats | 39 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Roaring Twenties | 59 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Warboats | 141 |
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