U.S. Air Force Prototype Jet Fighters Photo Scrapbook [Paperback]

Dennis R. Jenkins (Author), Tony Landis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2009

The U.S. Air Force began developing jet fighters as World War II came to a close. The Cold War that soon developed saw a significant increase in fighter production programs as America tried to counter the perceived Soviet threat. World War II's best piston-powered fighters could barely top speeds in excess of 450 mph. But the post-war jets developed by the U.S. Air Force were soon breaking the sound barrier, flying to Mach 3, and Mach-4 capable aircraft were on the drawing board. U.S. Air Force Prototype Jet Fighters details the evolution of these aircraft, using dozens of never-before-published photographs from government archives.

Editorial Reviews

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As a scrapbook and compilation, a very interesting work covering a wide span of the history of US aviation. ---Hyperscale, reviewed by Ken Bowes, July 2009

I like these books, the Specialty Press crew does a great job of presenting historic photos with pertinent information and commentary. Overall, it is an excellent book and a great value for the money. I enjoyed it and I am sure you will as well. It is one that I can easily recommend to you. ---Modeling Madness, reviewed by Scott Van Aken, April 2009

2009 Military Writers Society of America Gold Book Award in the "Air Force" category. - --Military Writers Society of America

I like these books, the Specialty Press crew does a great job of presenting historic photos with pertinent information and commentary. Overall, it is an excellent book and a great value for the money. I enjoyed it and I am sure you will as well. It is one that I can easily recommend to you. ---Modeling Madness, reviewed by Scott Van Aken, April 2009

2009 Military Writers Society of America Gold Book Award in the "Air Force" category. ---Military Writers Society of America

About the Author

Dennis R. Jenkins is a consulting engineer in Cape Canaveral, Florida, working on various aerospace projects including 20 years on the Space Shuttle and several on the stillborn X-33 program. He is the author of Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System The First 100 Missions in addition to more than 30 other works on aerospace history.

Tony Landis was born and raised in Southern California and joined the Air Force right out of high school. He has had a life-long interest in aerospace history, and images from his photo collection have been published in hundreds of publications. He has been listed as a contributing photographer, editor, and artist in Wings/Airpower magazine and has worked at the NASA Dyden Flight Research Center for several years. Landis has authored several aviation books for Specialty Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers (April 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580071376
• ISBN-13: 978-1580071376
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,554,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photographs were superb!, May 20, 2010

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In addition to the one-of-a-kind photographs, the authors did a great job compiling the facts and presenting them. Very unique book. Highly recommended.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars POOR QUALITY PRINTING, December 10, 2009

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I am going to return my copy and request a refund. The print quality is poor, with vertical lines running through many images and poor density in the black and white images. I offered to send the publisher a scan of the affected pages, to prove that the copy was defective, and asked for a replacement so that I could avoid the return hassle, and because I have no way of knowing if Amazon would have a better copy with the replacement. The publisher never bothered to respond. Obviously, they don't care about the customer any more than they care about quality. Amazon should really sit up and take notice of this: if the products you sell online cannot be trusted to have good quality and your suppliers don't have any interest in making it right, at best, I will buy in stores only, where I can do my own quality assurance. At worst, because I am becoming so fed up with the poor standards, cheap printing, errors and overall general decline in the quality of aviation publications, I may just stop buying them, altogether, visiting a library instead. Wake up publishers. People complained for years about newspapers and those publishers never listened. Now, they are dying. Don't make the same mistake of ignoring your customers when they tell you of a problem.