21st Century Complete Guide to U. S. Navy Aviation History : Encyclopedic Coverage of Aircraft, Detailed Airplane Drawings, Photos, and Data, Declassified Reports, Insignias, and Squadrons

This electronic book on two CD-ROMs presents the complete story of America's incredible Naval aviation history. Every aspect of our Navy's history and hardware is fully covered in a comprehensive set of official documents. Declassified reports highlight the history of combat in America's wars; photographs and drawings complement the coverage of the airplanes that defended our nation. There are thorough lists of squadrons and illustrated histories of various insignias. There is even material about the Navy's lighter-than-air ships of the early 20th century, and the Navy's role in space flight. This set makes a superb reference work for military enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.World Spaceflight News Staff is the author of '21st Century Complete Guide to U. S. Navy Aviation History : Encyclopedic Coverage of Aircraft, Detailed Airplane Drawings, Photos, and Data, Declassified Reports, Insignias, and Squadrons', published 2002 under ISBN 9781931828284 and ISBN 1931828288.