| Title:
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P-61 BLACK WIDOW UNITS OF WORLD WAR 2
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| By: |
Warren Thompson, Mark Styling (Illus) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1782007407 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781782007401 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
20 November, 2012 |
| Series: |
Combat Aircraft 8 |
| Description: |
Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by early RAF combat experience with radar-equipped aircraft in 1940/41. This volume features all the frontline users of the mighty P-61, and includes many first-hand accounts from pilots and gunners who saw action in the Pacific, Mediterranean and Western Europe. |
| Synopsis: |
The first aircraft to be purposely designed as a radar-equipped nightfigher, Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by early RAF combat experience with radar-equipped aircraft in 1940/41. Built essentially around the bulky Radiation Laboratory SCR-720 radar, which was mounted in the aircraft's nose, the P-61 proved to be the largest fighter ever produced for frontline service by the USAAF. Twin-engined and twin-boomed, the Black Widow was armed with a dorsal barbette of four 0.50-in Browning machine guns and two ventrally-mounted 20 mm cannon. This volume features all the frontline users of the mighty P-61, and includes many first-hand accounts from pilots and gunners who saw action in the Pacific, Mediterranean and Western Europe. |
| Illustrations: |
100 b/w; 40 col |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Osprey Publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |