aviation, including "The Blue Angels: A Fly-By History," and runs the website About the Author He has written more than two dozen books on U.S. Veronico is a public affairs officer at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for NASA's SOFIA Program and a past president of the Society of Aviation History. This work is illustrated throughout with two hundred photos, including archival photos from World War II as well as before and after photos of recovery and restoration. Each recovery demands its own unique approach, and Veronico interviews the men and women who solve the problems and save the warbirds. bombers and fighters to Japanese Bettys and Zeros, discovered all over the world in locations like Alaska, Greenland, Lake Michigan, and Papua New Guinea. "Hidden Warbirds" covers a wide range of aircraft, from U.S. Often painted and named for specific historical aircraft, these recovered warbirds become stars of museums and airshows, the roar of their piston engines bringing the past back to life. Incomplete wrecks can be combined into one airworthy plane, while surplus and fabricated parts finish the restoration. Whether sunken in swamps or perched on mountainsides, buried under snow or resting on lake bottoms, the teams struggle to remove aircraft in a way that will allow them to put them all back together later on. Remote and dangerous locations provide many challenges for salvaging the damaged and deteriorating aircraft. Veronico tells the stories of the pilots and planes as well as the recovery and restoration teams that get these aircraft out of the wilds and into the air. In "Hidden Warbirds," aviation historian Nicholas A. Specialized teams compete to salvage these historic aircraft and, if possible, return them to flyable condition. Shot down, crash-landed, or sometimes just abandoned, the warbirds of World War II, both Allied and Axis, rust away in strange and surprising locations-in lakes and oceans, glaciers and garages, jungles and swamps.
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The comprehensive text is accompanied throughout by more than two hundred photos, most in full color, bringing these time capsules of World War II back to life. Veronico covers the aircrafts' final missions and then flashes decades forward to their discovery, recovery, and restoration. From the famous P-38 "Glacier Girl," rescued from under 250 feet of ice in Greenland, to the B-17 "Swamp Ghost," recovered from a swamp in Papua New Guinea, aviation historian Nicholas A. From garages to glaciers, dedicated teams of aviators and historians rescue these aircraft wrecks from oblivion, rebuild them, and, often, take them back into the skies for the first time in over sixty years. Now their skeletal frames-in jungle, snow, or lake-are eerie, ghostlike reminders of globe-spanning conflicts and the men and machines who fought them. B-17s, B-29s, P-38s, P-51s-famous planes that once helped save the world during World War II.
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