Airplanes, Military
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: See Also: Aeronautics, Military // Government aircraft // Air warfare
Variants: Aeroplanes, Military // Military airplanes // War planes // Warplanes
NT: AD Flying Boat (Seaplane) // Attack planes // Bombers // Electronic Warfare aircraft // Fighter planes // Gunships (Military aircraft) // Jet planes, Military // Military Helicopters // Reconnaissance aircraft // Training planes // AND MANY MORE
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
David Bowman Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-126
Scope and Contents
Emails; David Bowman's LaGrange Books Backlist; physical copies of and URLs to "Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program" and "Coming in from the Cold: Military Heritage in the Cold War;" a binder; various other texts on the United States Armed Forces, Redstone Federal Arsenal, the Soviet Union, the Cold War; newspapers and newspaper clippings; posters; poetry; handwritten notes.
Dates:
1942 - 2001
Merlin II, III and V Aero-engines (Air Publication 1590B to S, Vol II, Part 3: Instructions for Overhaul), 1943, 1943-11
Item — Box 096, Folder: 011
Identifier: 20200103
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Technical Manual with detailed line drawings.Scope: available portions of AP 1590B cover Rolls-Royce Merlin model differences and engine timingContents include portions of AP 1590B:
- Introduction to Volume II, Part 3 (Instructions for Overhaul)
- Table of Main Differences in Design of Merlin Engines
- Section 2 (Repair and Reconditioning) - Chapter 3 (Piston, Connecting Rods and Crankshaft
- Section 2 (Repair and Reconditioning) - Chapter 9...
Dates:
Publication: 1943; Modified: 1943-11
Superchargers for Aviation, 1942
Item — Book 088, Book: 000
Identifier: 20180017
Abstract
An Illuminating, Authoritative Text by the Inventor of the Supercharger (Dr. Sanford A. Moss, Ph.D.)(back cover). Foreword: Supercharging has such an important place with the modern internal combustion engine that the publication of the present book seems most timely. The material originally appeared in the weekly numbers of the aviation publication Aeronautics, issued under the auspices of the present publishers in 1941, but the author has considerably revised and extended this matter for...
Dates:
Publication: 1942
The Airplane and Its Engine (Fourth Edition, Second Impression), 1940
Item — Book 086, Book: 000
Identifier: 20180015
Abstract
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION The wide use of the first three editions of the book, both by the general public and by schools and colleges, has indicated to the authors that their hope of meeting a definite need in aeronautical literature has been fulfilled. Like its predecessors, this edition is intended primarily for the reader who desires a sound knowledge of the basic principles and a broad view of the present development of the airplane and its power plant, without giving to the...
Dates:
Publication: 1940