Best Fire Fighting Aircraft - April 2024

Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting

The 5th edition of Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting provides basic information needed by firefighters to effectively perform the various tasks involved in aircraft rescue and fire fighting. Material covered includes qualifications for aircraft rescue and fire fighting (ARFF) personnel, aircraft and airport familiarization, safety and aircraft hazards, ARFF communications, extinguishing agents, ARFF apparatus, rescue tools and equipment, ARFF driver/operator, airport emergency planning, and ARFF strategic and tactical operations. Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (5th edition) addresses the re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0879393238
• ASIN: 0879393238
• ISBN: 0879393238
• Manufacturer: Intl Fire Service Training Assn

Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack

This is "naval history at its best" (Bruce Henderson)--the story of the greatest kamikaze attack of World War IILooking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II.On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00PWX7QU2
• ASIN: B00PWX7QU2
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

An unprecedented account of the monumental Pacific War campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and supremacy and established the foundation for America to become a dominant global superpower   Here is the extraordinary story of the most consequential campaign of the Pacific War: the U.S. Fifth Fleet’s seizure of the Marianas, a relentless deployment of overwhelming force on air, land, and sea that opened the path to total victory over Japan and established a new state of the art in warfare: the first use of the forerunners of today’s SEALs; the emergence of massive... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01BJSJMHI
• ASIN: B01BJSJMHI
• Brand: Bantam
• Manufacturer: Bantam

GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam

Guts 'n Gunships has maintained a top spot on the Amazon bestseller page since 2015. It reached the number one spot for all of non-fiction on Amazon, and was ranked number eleven for all Kindle books. It was a #4 bestseller on the Wall Street Journal bestsellers list and was listed on USA Today's bestseller list as well.Straight from college, to the US Army, to command pilot of a four-ton gunship with a four-man crew in Vietnam. From college chess games to a game of life and death. It was surreal to say the least. In this book I pour my heart out and bare my soul to tell you what that was like... [Read More]

• ASIN: B014TUIW7O
• ASIN: B014TUIW7O

General Aviation Firefighting For Structural Firefighters

This unique text will be the basic training manual for fire science students needing to know how to deal effectively and safely with fires at General Aviation airports and aircraft. Structural firefighting crews, usually the first to respond to any GA incident, often lack the knowledge of how to deal with such a circumstance. Written by a 25-year fire service veteran with vast experience in the GA field, this book provides an easy-to-read style with ample illustrations that explain an airport environment, how to establish vital communication links, the components of GA aircraft, coordination w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0766804062
• ASIN: 0766804062
• ISBN: 0766804062
• Brand: Brand: Cengage Learning
• Manufacturer: Cengage Learning

To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam

The riveting memoir of a Vietnam War helicopter pilot.“When you step into a Huey with Tom Johnson, you’re in for the real thing. No one has previously captured the Vietnam helicopter experience with such gripping authority.”—Robert F. Dorr, author of Chopper  From June 1967 to June 1968, Tom Johnson accumulated an astonishing 1,600 flying hours piloting the UH-1 “Iroquois”—better known as the “Huey”—as part of the famous First Air Cavalry Division. His battalion was one of the most decorated units of the Vietnam War, and helped redefine modern warfare.   Johnson’s rivet... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451222180
• ASIN: 0451222180
• ISBN: 0451222180
• Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

Sentinels of Fire: A Novel (P. T. Deutermann WWII Novels)

P.T. Deutermann's World War II navy series began with the award-winning Pacific Glory, followed by the brilliantly reviewed Ghosts of Bungo Suido. His new novel Sentinels of Fire tells the tale of a lone destroyer, the USS Malloy, part of the Allied invasion forces attacking the island of Okinawa and the Japanese home islands.By the spring of 1945, the once mighty Japanese fleet has been virtually destroyed, leaving Japan open to invasion. The Japanese react by dispatching hundreds of suicide bombers against the Allied fleet surrounding Okinawa. By mid-May, the Allied fleet is losing a major s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 125004118X
• ASIN: 125004118X
• ISBN: 9781250041180
• Brand: St Martin s Press
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Kris Longknife: Defiant (Kris Longknife Series Book 3)

As part of an agenda to oust her father from his political position, Kris Longknife is relieved of command. But when an alien enemy launches an invasion, she defies both government and military authority to lead a rag-tag fleet against the threat.

• ASIN: B0040895DQ
• ASIN: B0040895DQ
• Manufacturer: Ace

Mission with LeMay: My Story

This Book: Mission With Lemay: My Story by Curtis E. Lemay and MacKinlay Kantor is the personal and outspoken story of a history making General Curtis E. Lemay. His military contributions were enormous. His firebombing campaign against Janpan between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945 may have killed more than 500,000 Japanese civilians. He said, "if the US lost the war he fully expected to be tried for war crimes". After the war, he unintentionally iniated the Berlin Airlift, then reorganized the Stretegic Air Command (SAC) into an effective instrument of nuclear war.

• ASIN: B0006BN17W
• ASIN: B0006BN17W
• ISBN: 1299067786
• Manufacturer: Doubleday & Company

Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (4th Ed)

ISBN 0-87939-192-8

• ASIN: 0879391928
• ASIN: 0879391928
• ISBN: 0879391928
• Brand: Brand: Intl Fire Service Training Assn
• Manufacturer: Intl Fire Service Training Assn

Aerial Firefighting

Over 400 vivid color photos show aircraft used around the globe to fight forest and open-range fires. Includes fire-extinguishing planes known as airtankers, firefighting helicopters, transports, and direction and command planes essential to successful firefighting. Many rare, never-before-published images show firefighting aircraft in action. The detailed text provides technical descriptions of forest fire fighting and speculates on the future of firefighting aviation. This book is a must for every reader fascinated by aviation or firefighting.

• ASIN: 0764330683
• ASIN: 0764330683
• ISBN: 0764330683
• Brand: Schiffer Publishing
• Manufacturer: Schiffer Pub Ltd

Fighting the Flying Circus: The Memoirs of America's Greatest Ace

• ASIN: B01EK3IEOG
• ASIN: B01EK3IEOG
• Manufacturer: Endeavour Compass

Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG

Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal BEST MEMOIR OF 2014. Originally published in 1990, this classic work has now been revised and updated with 50,000 words of additional narrative and previously unpublished photos. It is the story of how, in Vietnam, an elite group of Air Force pilots fought a secret air war in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes—flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and destruction down on enemy positions, the Forward Air Controller made an art form out of an air strike—knowing the targets, knowing where... [Read More]

• ASIN: 161200220X
• ASIN: 161200220X
• ISBN: 161200220X
• Manufacturer: Casemate

More Than Courage: Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe: The Combat History of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II

          Drawing on many oral and unpublished written accounts from veterans of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Phil Nordyke brings the history of the regiment to life, conveying with remarkable immediacy and power what it was like to be there. This is history as it was lived by the men of the 504th, from their pre-war coming of age in the regiment, through the end of World War II, when they marched in the Victory Parade down Fifth Avenue in New York. The 504th earned three bronze stars for their parachute wings, one for each of their combat jumps.    

• ASIN: 0760333130
• ASIN: 0760333130
• ISBN: 0760333130
• Manufacturer: Zenith Press

Double Ace: The Life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., Pilot, Hero, and Teller of Tall Tales

Robert Lee Scott was larger than life. A decorated Eagle Scout who barely graduated from high school, the young man from Macon, Georgia, with an oversize personality used dogged determination to achieve his childhood dream of becoming a famed fighter pilot. In Double Ace, veteran biographer Robert Coram, himself a Georgia man, provides readers with an unprecedented look at the defining characteristics that made "Scotty" a uniquely American hero.First capturing national attention during World War II, Scott, a West Point graduate, flew missions in China alongside the legendary "Flying Tigers," w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250040183
• ASIN: 1250040183
• ISBN: 1250040183
• Brand: Thomas Dunne Books
• Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books

U.S. Air Force Aerospace Mishap Reports: Accident Investigation Board Report on February 2018 F-16cm Fighting Falcon Fighter Aircraft Engine Fire on T

U.S. Air Force Aerospace Mishap Reports: Accident Investigation Board Report on February 2018 F-16cm Fighting Falcon Fighter Aircraft Engine Fire on

• UPC: 378265622

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• UPC: 871049639
• Color: MulticolorMulti
• Size: 5.Canvas, 10 x 1410 x 14

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• UPC: 800135300
• Color: MulticolorMulti
• Size: 24 x 361.Poster, 24 x 36

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• UPC: 730831958
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• UPC: 774511354
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• UPC: 947849801
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• UPC: 656749905

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• UPC: 871528666
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• UPC: 854050302
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