By Walter J. Boyne
Air war: a world Encyclopedia is the 1st encyclopedia to record the complete heritage of aerial strive against, from the primitive biplanes of worldwide struggle I to the subtle stealth warring parties of the twenty first century. The greater than 900 entries, lavishly illustrated with photos and maps, hide all of it -- the 1st, the quickest, the top, the most recent. greater than a hundred most sensible overseas students and specialists -- many with own wrestle event -- provide completely researched, in actual fact written articles at the recognized aces, designers, battles, air campaigns, guns, and flying machines of air warfare's first ninety years.
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By the early 1930s, the Soviet aircraft industry was beginning to establish itself. In July 1929, Mikhail Gromov (as 8 Aeroflot revered in Russia as Lindbergh was in the United States) made his second goodwill tour of Europe with the ANT-9 Krylya Sovyetov (Wings of the Soviets). In 1932, the Soviet Union consolidated its airline industry. Dobrolet became Aeroflot, which completed the transSiberian route in 1933, following the line of the famous railway but making the Moscow-Pacific journey in about three days instead of two weeks.
However, insufficient funds led General Henry “Hap” Arnold to cancel the project in 1932 in favor of precision bombsight development and the emerging doctrine of daylight precision strategic bombing. Paul G. Gillespie See also Precision-Guided Munitions References McFarland, Stephen F. America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910–1945. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. braer. In 1985, Aeritalia acquired aero-engine manufacturer Alfa Romeo Avio and, later, a 40 percent share in Piaggio.
Dade. Getting Off the Ground: The Pioneers of Aviation Speak for Themselves. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979. Ader, Clement (1841–1925) French aviation pioneer born in Muret who carried out flight experiments in the late nineteenth century. Ader performed a brief, uncontrolled takeoff in one of his machines in 1890. Although ultimately unsuccessful in controlled flight (he claimed to have flown in 1897, but evidence is scarce), he remained interested in military aviation and wrote four books on its potential.