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The CW-21 was designed during the late 1930s. It combined light weight construction with a powerful engine, which resulted in an excellent rate of climb and manoeuvrability, allowing the fighter to quickly reach the height of attacking enemy aircraft, and attack them. The prototype was sent to China as a demonstration copy and an order for three aircraft, plus a further 32 as kits, followed. These would be assembled locally. Only the three production machines arrived in the chaos of war and would never see actual combat. A second modified variant was ordered by the Dutch government and 24 were delivered to the Netherlands Indies. The CW-21s were outnumbered and outgunned when the Japanese launched their attack on the Netherlands Indies. Despite the poor outlook, the pilots flying them put up a good fight.

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Aeronautics, Military --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Administration --- Safety measures --- Military aeronautics --- Military aviation --- Military art and science --- Air pilots, Military --- Safety measures. --- United States.

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This compelling chronicle of a controversial figure—a man who could be charming, fanatical, arrogant, and confrontational—places Billy Mitchell in the context of the great debates over U.S. air power between the world wars. Mitchell demonstrated during WWI that massive air power could decisively affect combat operations on the ground, and he argued vehemently to anyone who would listen that air power would be the decisive factor in the next war—a war that he was certain would be fought with Japan. But his brilliance was often overshadowed by his personal failings: typically, he alienated those in power who could act on his ideas. In a highly publicized trial, Mitchell was court-martialed and found guilty, ostensibly for openly attacking the Navy and the War Department over the fatal crash of the airship Shenandoah, but primarily for making public his warnings about U.S. weaknesses in the air. Although the air attack on Pearl Harbor made Mitchell look to some like a prophet martyred for his integrity, Cooke revises that portrait to reveal a character fatally flawed by consuming ambition and a man who was a victim only of circumstances of his own creation.

Generals --- Aeronautics, Military --- Military aeronautics --- Military aviation --- Military art and science --- Air pilots, Military --- History --- Mitchell, William, --- Mitchell, Billy, --- United States.

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Aeronautics, Military -- Research -- United States -- Evaluation. --- Aeronautics, Military --- Air Forces --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Research --- Evaluation --- Evaluation. --- Military aeronautics --- Military aviation --- Military art and science --- Air pilots, Military

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Airplanes, Military --- Aeronautics, Military --- Aeroplanes, Military --- Military airplanes --- War planes --- Warplanes --- Government aircraft --- Air warfare --- Military aeronautics --- Military aviation --- Military art and science --- Air pilots, Military --- History. --- Hungary. --- Royal Hungarian Air Force --- Hungary --- History, Military.