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Author : Nick Veronico Nicholas A. Veronico A. Kevin Grantham Scott Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610607325
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico,Nick Veronico,A. Kevin Grantham,Scott Thompson
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0760308209
Unlike any other boneyard book youve seen in the past, Military Aircraft Boneyards takes a complete look at the fate of a variety of abandoned and obsolete aircraft across America. Nick Veronico uncovers the early history of aircraft disposal sites, plus how to insider details on the entire disposal process. Graveyards of the past at Kingman and Litchfield Park, Arizona, are covered along with todays disposal site at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. Includes coverage of the most recent boneyard arrivals.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico,Nick Veronico,Ron Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Airplanes, Military
ISBN : 1580071392
This country's largest military aircraft storage center began in the heady days following the end of World War II. At first only a small desert site holding bombers and transports in reserve for possible future use, it later became more of a salvage and parts recovery operation, and in many cases, a final resting place known as "the boneyard." In the 1950s and 1960s, with new wars erupting in Korea and Vietnam, certain aircraft stored in this desert center were once again in demand, and this famed storage and salvage facility in Tucson, Arizona, answered the call. Numerous photographs taken both from the air and on the ground show the reader vistas of the 4,000 total airplanes stored at this site, while a detailed appendix gives a comprehensive listing of all the aircraft types currently at AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group). In many cases, the numbers are quite staggering and are sure to surprise the reader.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico,Jim Dunn,Ron Strong
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811713085
Another volume in the Stackpole Military Photo Series, Boneyard Nose Art gives readers a first-hand look at retired American military aircraft, emphasizing their nose art. Featuring aircraft from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf Wars, over 300 color photos detail fighters, bombers, tankers, and transports, such as the B-2, B-17, F-16, C-130, and more. An ideal reference for modelers, military history enthusiasts, and art buffs, this title is also a perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series, including Airborne Combat, Coast Watching in WWII, and Flying American Combat Aircraft.
Author : Jim Dunn,Ron Strong,Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811752718
Photos of retired American military aircraft, emphasizing their nose art.
Author : Patrick Hoeveler,Adel Krämer
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0764336622
The Desert Boneyards are a concept well known to every aeronautical enthusiast, and yet also veiled in secrecy. Gigantic desert aerodromes in which military and civilian aircraft from all over the world are stored, either permanently or for a time, in order to serve as sources of spare parts or to be reactivated after a certain time. In this unique photo documentation, the reader is shown the best-known of these desert boneyards in Arizona and California and presented fascinating insights into a world far away from the well-known airports.
Author : Benjamin A. Sinko
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780615158983
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was the companion Very Heavy Bomber to the famed Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Used extensively for a revolutionary crew training program in the United States during 1945 just nine reached the Pacific before VJ day. The Dominator made its mark on history in the skies over Tokyo. Just days after the official cease fire was agreed on it battled Japanese fighters over a two day period marking the last official aerial combat of World War II. With the completion of the war every B-32 was scrapped and it slipped from history. Echoes of the Dominator brings to life the stories of the B-32 Dominator as never told before through the eyes of the men who flew it into the pages of history. Follow the men through training and into combat where their lives were forever changed by events that occurred when the war was supposed to be over.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico,Nick Veronico
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760346013
"The second installment in a series exploring the stories of famous wrecks and recoveries of World War II-era aircraft. Features over 150 photographs depicting more than 20 warbird stories around the world"--
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico,Nick Veronico
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760344095
Veronico explores the romantic era of World War II warbirds and the stories of some of its most famous wrecks, including the "Swamp Ghost" (a B-17E which crashed in New Guinea in the early days of World War II and which was only recently recovered), and "Glacier Girl" (a P-38, part of "The Lost Squadron," which crashed in a large ice sheet in Greenland in 1942). Throughout, Veronico provides a history of the aircraft, as well as the unique story behind each discovery and recovery with ample illustrations.
Author : Jim Dunn,Nicholas A Veronico
Publisher : Key Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802821093
The United States military stores more than 4,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Known as the “Boneyard,” this facility is much more than a place where aerospace vehicles come to die. Here some aircraft are maintained in both short- and long-term storage, while others serve as a “parts inventory on the wing” holding valuable spare parts in known locations ready to be harvested, overhauled, and returned to the fleet when needed. When an aircraft has yielded all the parts necessary to keep its brethren in the air, its carcass eventually meets the scrapper’s torch. AMARG’s storage rows are home to massive fleets of F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 fighters, aerial refuelling tankers, C-130 and C-5 transports, helicopters of varying sizes, and bombers from the frontline B-1 to B-52s that are much older than the pilots flying them around the globe today. Among the rows are special use aircraft including the AWACS, P-3 maritime patrol bombers, aeromedical evacuation aircraft, and reconnaissance planes that serve a variety of missions, along with celebrity aircraft such as MiG killers that dominated the skies in aerial combat. As well as bringing the reader up to date with recent activities at AMARG, including the intake of new aircraft types, regeneration and the return to the fleet of aircraft formerly in storage, this book presents new, never-before-seen images that provide a visual tour of the Boneyard.
Author : Hans Wiesman
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612002590
A tale of a lifelong passion for a WWII aircraft that changed the author’s life: “It is almost like an adventure novel except it is true” (Air Classics). This book tells the story of a Dutch boy who grew up during the 1950s in postwar Borneo, where he had frequent encounters with an airplane, the Douglas DC-3, a.k.a. the C-47 Skytrain or Dakota, of World War II fame. For a young boy living in a remote jungle community, the aircraft reached the proportions of a romantic icon as the essential lifeline to a bigger world for him, the beginning of a special bond. In 1957, his family left the island and all its residual wreckage of World War II, and he attended college in The Hague. After graduation, he started a career as a corporate executive—and met the aircraft again during business trips to the Americas. His childhood passion for the Dakota flared up anew, and the fascination pulled like a magnet. As if predestined, or maybe just looking for an excuse to come closer, he began a business to salvage and convert Dakota parts, which meant first of all finding them. As the demand for these war relic parts and cockpits soared, he began to travel the world to track down surplus, crashed, or derelict Dakotas. He ventured deeper and deeper into remote mountains, jungles, savannas, and the seas where the planes are found, usually as ghostly wrecks but sometimes still in full commercial operation. In hunting the mythical Dakota, he often encountered intimidating or dicey situations in countries plagued by wars or revolts, others by arms and narcotics trafficking, warlords, and conmen. The stories of these expeditions take the reader to some of the remotest spots in the world, but once there, one is often greeted by the comfort of what was once the West’s apex in transportation—however now haunted by the courageous airmen of the past.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811768139
Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and landed 150,000 troops—under withering German fire—on Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in a single day. In numbers and scope, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Meanwhile, some 12,000 aircraft flew above the sea, a dizzying assortment of fighters and bombers, transports, recon craft, and gliders. Taking off from air fields in England, they dropped thousands of paratroopers and even vehicles, bombed roads and German positions miles inland, provided vital intelligence, and attacked any German planes that were able to take to the skies. It was the largest single-day aerial operation in history. And yet these important—and impressive—aspects of D-Day haven’t received the coverage they deserve, having been overshadowed by the fighting on the beaches. Veronico assembles photos of both the air and sea components of the D-Day invasion, giving the sailors and airmen their due and giving modern readers a vivid sense of what this monumental day was like in the air and at sea.
Author : Nicholas A. Veronico
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811714556
A visual history of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II • Hundreds of photos of American aircraft damaged or shot down by the German Luftwaffe • Photos of damaged bomber and fighter planes, plus information on their crews and missions • Perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series • Ideal reference for military history fans, scholars, and modelers
Author : Peter Thorsheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107099357
During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of many essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the morale of its citizens, to secure billions of dollars in Lend-Lease aid from the United States, and even to uncover foreign intelligence. However, Britain's wartime recycling campaign came at a cost: it consumed many items that would never have been destroyed under normal circumstances, including significant parts of the nation's cultural heritage. Based on extensive archival research, Peter Thorsheim examines the relationship between armaments production, civil liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy, making Waste into Weapons the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain.
Author : Simon D. Beck
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476622934
Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora! or how French Gazelle helicopters were modified for the title role in Blue Thunder? This first of its kind reference book lists aircraft featured in 350 films and television shows, providing brief individual histories, film locations, serial numbers and registrations. Aircraft are also cross-referenced by manufacturer. Appendices provide brief bios on pilots and technicians, information on aircraft collections owned by Tallmantz Aviation and Blue Max Aviation and film credits for U.S. aircraft carriers.
