Jim Winchester
Auteur de The World's Worst Aircraft (From Pioneering Failures to Multimillion Dollar Disasters)
A propos de l'auteur
Jim Winchester is a freelance writer who has written widely of various aspects of aviation. He is the author of several books
Séries
Œuvres de Jim Winchester
The World's Worst Aircraft (From Pioneering Failures to Multimillion Dollar Disasters) (2005) 169 exemplaires
Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles of WWII: The World's Greatest Military Vehicles 1939-1945 (2003) 58 exemplaires
Concept Aircraft: Prototypes, X-Planes, and Experimental Aircraft (Aviation Factfile) (2005) 52 exemplaires
Dogfight: Military Aircraft Compared and Contrasted - Includes Real Life Aerial Combat Accounts (2006) 28 exemplaires
The Encyclopedia of Modern Aircraft: From Civilian Airliners to Military Superfighters (2006) 21 exemplaires
A Chronology of Aviation - the Ultimate Guide to More Than a Century of Powered Flight (2007) 19 exemplaires
X-Planes & Prototypes: From Nazi Secret Weapons to the Warplanes of the Future [ISBN; 978-0-7607-7091-7] 1 exemplaire
Pan Am 1927-1991 (Aviation Archive) 1 exemplaire
Luftwaffe fighters 1935-1945 (Aviation Archive) 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Winchester, Jim
- Sexe
- male
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 43
- Membres
- 1,117
- Popularité
- #22,994
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 17
- ISBN
- 104
- Langues
- 5
From there, Winchester gives you a grab bag of supporting stories, this book being a biography of Webster, a chronicle of the carrier "Ticonderoga" (particularly her war cruise of 1965-66), an examination of the operational theory of the nuclear arsenals carried on the U.S. Navy's carriers, the publicity impact of what happened once the incident was finally uncovered, and a coda about the lingering impact.
As for what the U.S. Navy made of this whole event, it did lead to a certain tightening of procedures in terms of deck-handling of aircraft on carriers. One consistent theme in Winchester's chronicle is the high level of physical menace on a carrier during an operational deployment.
So, not the most scintillating book I've ever read, but it was certainly informative.… (plus d'informations)