In the Cockpit 2: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II

195 Pages·2010·8.74 MB·English

by  National Air and Space Museum

In the Cockpit II
Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II
Photography by Eric F. Long and Mark A. Avino
Text by Roger D. Connor and Christopher T. Moore
Foreword by Robert A. Hoover
In Association with
The National Air and Space Museum,
Smithsonian Institution
SI 81–896
This book is dedicated to Donald S. Lopez* and those aircrew, ground crew, and
engineers who supported the air war against the Axis tyrannies that threatened
freedom in the terrifyingly tumultuous years from 1939 to 1945. The images
presented here are a testament to the skill and fortitude of these extraordinary
people and their opponents.
*Lieutenant Colonel Lopez (USAF, Ret.) was an ace with the Twenty-third Fighter Group, Fourteenth Air Force in China and served
as deputy director of the National Air and Space Museum until his passing in 2008. He is sorely missed.
Contents
Foreword
Photographers’ Note
Author’s Note
Aichi M6A1 Seiran
Arado AR 234 B–2 Blitz
Bell P–39Q Airacobra Galloping Gertie
Bell P–63A Kingcobra Edyth Louise
Boeing B–17G Flying Fortress Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby
Boeing B–29 Superfortress Enola Gay
Boeing (Stearman) N2S–5 Kaydet
Curtiss SB2C–5 Helldiver
Curtiss-Wright XP–55 Ascender
Douglas SBD–6 Dauntless
Eastern Aircraft FM–1 (Grumman F4F–4) Wildcat
Focke Achgelis FA 330 A–1 Bachstelze
Focke-Wulf FW 190 D–9
Focke-Wulf FW 190 F–8
Ilyushin IL–2 Shturmovik
Kawanishi N1K2-JA Shiden Kai “George”
Kellett XO–60
Kugisho MXY7 Ohka Model 22
Kyushu J7W1 Shinden
Martin PBM–5A Mariner
Messerschmitt ME 262 A–1A Schwalbe
Mitsubishi A6M5 Reisen Model 52 “Zeke”
Morane-Saulnier M.S.500 Criquet (Fieseler FI 156 C–7 Storch)
Nakajima J1N1-S Gekko “Irving”
Nakajima KI–115A Tsurugi
Noorduyn YC–64 Norseman IV
North American O–47A
North American P–51D Mustang
North American SNJ–4 Texan
Northrop P–61C Black Widow
Sikorsky XR–5
Supermarine Spitfire HF MK VII
Vought-Sikorsky OS2U–3 Kingfisher
Vought-Sikorsky XR–4C

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Copyright
About the Publisher
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