shorter pieces
Taildragger Tales: My late-blooming
romance with a Piper Cub and her younger sisters
A collection of five essays and articles about the joys of flying
a tube-and-fabric aircraft from the 1930s.
(11,000 words) $2.99
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The Katyn Findings 1952
In the spring of 1940, 22,000 Polish officers and civilian leaders
were shot by Stalin's order and buried in mass graves. Hushed up
during the War, the atrocity was spelled out in gory detail in
Congressional hearings in 1951-1952.
(20,000 words) $2.99
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First Blood for the Flying Tigers
A short introduction to the legendary Tigers and their first combat over
Kunming. Based on the America in WWII article
(5000 words) $2.99
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The Sorry Saga of the Brewster Buffalo:
A Flying Coffin to some, but a Sky Pearl to the Finns
The worst fighter of World War II? Based on the Air & Space article
(7500 words) $2.99
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The Last Raid: How World War II ended,
August 1945
A 'thousand-plane raid' was the last act in a war that began eight
years earlier. Based on the Air & Space article (4500 words)
$2.99
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Carrying a Nuke to Sevastopol: One pilot,
one engine, and one plutonium bomb
The U.S. Navy once thought it perfectly reasonable to launch
a propeller-driven attack plane to attack Soviet Russia with a
nuclear bomb.
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by and about John Boyd
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop,
and America's War on Terror
How would our greatest military thinker have
handled the terrorist threat? An expanded version of my M.A. thesis for
King's College London (74 pages)
$3.99
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Aerial Attack Study: Fighter vs Bomber,
Fighter vs Fighter (Captain John Boyd)
The first formulation of
the Energy Maneuverability principle that became the basis of aerial
combat doctrine in all western air forces. A 156-page PDF file of
the 1961 mimeographed study. $2.99
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When Sun-tzu Met Clausewitz
"A great article by Dan Ford on COL John Boyd's OODA Loop which
will help those new to Boyd theories in understanding the methodology
of decision making via the Boyd Cycle."
About 4,000 words. $2.99
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