The Big Book of X-Bombers & X-Fighters: USAF Jet-Powered Experimental Aircraft and Their Propulsive Systems

by Steve Pace

They're all here--every X-bomber and X-fighter since 1942.

On October 2, 1942, the Bell XP-59 Airacomet soared up and away from present-day Edwards AFB, launching the US Army Air Forces into the Jet Age. In the several decades since, hundreds of new variations of experimental and test turbojet-powered bombers and fighters--X-bombers and X-fighters--have taken explosive flight. These aircraft blazed a trail leading to today's B-2 Stealth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760349509
• ISBN13: 9780760349502
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Zenith Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.4" x 10.9"