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Wave-Off! A History of LSOs and Ship-Board Landings

Product code 9781580072359


Publisher/Brand Specialty Press

Author R.R. Boom Powell

Format 25 x 25 cm

No. Pages 208

Version Hard cover

Language English

Category Books on aviation

Subcategory Military Aviation » US

Availability Product out of stock and no longer available.

Product description

Key Points

  • Good technical information and hair-raising stories

  • Dramatic photos and informative graphics

 

Description

    From the beginning, landing airplanes on ships at sea has been considered the ultimate challenge in aviation. The success of generations of aircraft carrier operations would never have been possible without the Landing Signal Officer, or LSO.

 

    The major changes brought about by visual landing aids and angled decks are nothing less than revolutionary, and these features are explained by a seasoned Naval Aviator who flew attack jets from carriers.

 

    This book tells the story of LSOs from the first carrier operations in 1922 through World War II, the early jet era, Korea, Vietnam, and up to today's nuclear-powered leviathans. Also explained are naval aircraft and equipment development through the years; it covers both the faster and heavier aircraft and the changes in shipboard flight-deck systems. Diagrams showing the evolution of aircraft carrier deck design from World War I to the present are also included.

 

    Historical fact and detailed information is interspersed with colourful anecdotes that add the feeling of being on the fantail of a carrier as jets scream past at 200 mph and land right next to you. There's a good reason the LSO platform is called "the best seat in the house." From primitive biplanes to the latest supersonic jets, aircraft could not have been brought aboard ship without the Landing Signal Officer and this book explains for the first time the exciting world of the LSO.



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