In the 24th century humanity is experiencing a long earned time of renewal after centuries of hardship. From the ashes of the old world a shimmering Megalopolis has risen to dominate the landscape of a newly reformed America. It is during this unprecedented period of peace and growth that Jeremiah Bolderdash, the influential owner of the Lord's Web Channel, is about to be propelled to the highest office in the land, the Presidency. Or so the evangelical believes...before a woman by the name of Victory inexplicably wakes up in the middle of a crime scene. Knowing only her name, Victory undertakes a whirlwind adventure that will take her from the lightless depths too the cloud washed heights of the mighty Megalopolis. In a race against time, she will discover exactly who Victory Jet is and why a powerful man, like Jeremiah Bolderdash, will do anything to prevent her from telling the world all that she knows.In her quest for self-discover, Victory will accept the help of a ragtag collection of misfits and outlaws lead by the notorious Doctor Apple, an unorthodox physician- who moonlighting as a dominatrix in her spare time. With absolutely nothing to lose, this reluctant heroine becomes a one-woman demolition crew as she cuts a swath of destruction through the ever-watchful Megalopolis. Win or lose, the 24th century will never be the same after Victory Jet plunges the world into Perpetual Mayhem.

In the 1930s, as nations braced for war, the German military build up caught Britain and the United States off-guard, particularly in aviation technology. The unending quest for speed resulted in the need for radical alternatives to piston engines. In Germany, Dr. Hans von Ohain was the first to complete a flight-worthy turbojet engine for aircraft. It was installed in a Heinkel-designed aircraft, and the Germans began the jet age on August 27, 1939. The Germans led the jet race throughout the war and were the first to produce jet aircraft for combat operations. In England, the doggedly determined Frank Whittle also developed a turbojet engine, but without the support enjoyed by his German counterpart. The British came second in the jet race when Whittle's engine powered the Gloster Pioneer on May 15, 1941. The Whittle-Gloster relationship continued and produced the only Allied combat jet aircraft during the war, the Meteor, which was relegated to Home Defense in Britain. In America, General Electric copied the Whittle designs, and Bell Aircraft contracted to build the first American jet plane. On October 1, 1942, a lackluster performance from the Bell Airacomet, ushered in the American jet age. The Yanks forged ahead, and had numerous engine and airframe programs in development by the end of the war. But, the Germans did it right and did it first, while the Allies lagged throughout the war, only rising to technological prominence on the ashes of the German defeat. Pavelec's analysis of the jet race uncovers all the excitement in the high-stakes race to develop effective jet engines for warfare and transport.

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Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets – principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter – from the autumn of 1944. Stunned by the aircraft's speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly threat as the Luftwaffe targeted the medium and heavy bombers attacking targets across the Reich. A number of high-scoring aces from the Eighth Air Force (Drew, Glover, Meyer, Norley and Yeager, to name but a few) succeeded in claiming Me 262s, Me 163 and Ar 234s during the final months of the campaign, as did RAF aces like Tony Gaze and 'Foob' Fairbanks. The exploits of both famous and little-known pilots will be chronicled in this volume, detailing how they pushed their P-47s, P-51s, Spitfires and Tempests to the limits of their performance in order to down the Luftwaffe's 'wonder weapons'.

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This is a complete list of every pilot who has acheived an aerial victory from 1950-2000. It covers Korea, Viet Nam, Lybia and the Persian Gulf. An excellent companion to WWII Victories of the Army Air Force.

When it first flew in 1957, the Avro Arrow was the world's best supersonic combat aircraft. It was the proudest achievement of the engineers and designers in Canada's world-leading aircraft industry. They had already succeeded in building the worlds first passenger jet. This book tells the story of building, testing, and flying the Arrow. It explores the reasons why the Diefenbaker Conservative government of the day cancelled the contract to build these planes — and then ordered the six already finished airplanes cut up and destroyed.