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1. On wave and wing : the 100-year quest to perfect the aircraft carrier [2017]

Description
Book — xxiii, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Summary
What defended the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and is an essential tool in the fight against terror? Aircraft Carriers. For seventy years, these ships remained a little understood cornerstone of American power. In his latest book, On Wave and Wing , Barrett Tillman sheds light on the history of these floating leviathans and offers a nuanced analysis of the largest man-made vessel in the history of the world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Green Library

2. A century of carrier aviation : the evolution of ships and shipborne aircraft [2009]

Description
Book — 304 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Summary
  • Beginnings
  • A purpose-built ship and numerous conversions
  • Take-off decks
  • Take-off platforms, catapults and lighters
  • HMS Furious
  • HMS Argus
  • USS Langley
  • Progress
  • Different navies, different techniques
  • Flight from ships other than carriers
  • HMS Implacable described and compared
  • Flying from a straight-deck carrier
  • Design innovation and the 'rubber deck'
  • Transformation
  • Flying from an angled-deck carrier
  • Helicopters
  • Short take-off, vertical landing
  • What might have been
  • Cross-deck operations
  • Postscript.
SAL3 (off-campus storage)

3. Hai tu teng : Zhongguo hang mu = Haituteng [2009]

Description
Book — 3, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
SAL3 (off-campus storage)

4. US Navy carriers [videorecording] [2006]

  • [Montoursville, Pa.?] : International Masters Publishers, c2006.
Description
Video — 1 videodisc (40 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : col. maps, col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Summary
This DVD traces the rise of the biggest warships in the world as the United States air power went from early biplanes landing on converted battleships to the huge modern supercarriers of today.
Media Center

5. From the flight deck : an anthology of the best writing on carrier warfare [2003]

  • 1st ed. - Dulles, Va. : Brassey's, Inc., c2003.
Description
Book — xxi, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SAL3 (off-campus storage)

6. Destined for glory : dive bombing, Midway, and the evolution of carrier airpower [1998]

Description
Book — xvi, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SAL3 (off-campus storage)

7. Before the aircraft carrier : the development of aviation vessels, 1849-1922 [1989]

Description
Book — 128 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
SAL3 (off-campus storage)

8. Carrier wars : naval aviation from World War II to the Persian Gulf [1989]

Description
Book — x, 274 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Green Library

9. Aircraft carriers of the world, 1914 to the present : an illustrated encyclopedia [1984]

Description
Book — 288 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Summary
Arranged by country and class, the book discusses each basic design and presents appearance notes and career summaries.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
SAL3 (off-campus storage)

10. Carrier air power [1981]

Description
Book — 192 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Hoover Institution Library & Archives

11. Wings over the sea : a history of naval aviation [1979]

Description
Book — 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
SAL3 (off-campus storage)