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Hawker Hurricane and Sea Hurricane
This fully illustrated volume examines the legendary RAF fighter with full details on its WWII service and design modifications.The Hawker Hurricane was aeronautical engineer Sidney Camm's masterpiece.
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Flying Camelot
Flying Camelot brings us back
to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new,
state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16
Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debates about aircraft
superiority went public-and these were not uncontested discussions.
Michael W. Hankins delves deep into the fighter pilot culture that
gave rise to both designs, showing how a small but vocal group of
pilots, engineers, and analysts in the Department of Defense
weaponized their own culture to affect technological development
and larger political change.
The design and advancement of the F-15 and F-16 reflected this
group's nostalgic desire to recapture the best of World War I air
combat. Known as the \"Fighter Mafia,\" and later growing into the
media savvy political powerhouse \"Reform Movement,\" it believed
that American weapons systems were too complicated and expensive,
and thus vulnerable. The group's leader was Colonel John Boyd, a
contentious former fighter pilot heralded as a messianic figure by
many in its ranks. He and his group advocated for a shift in focus
from the multi-role interceptors the Air Force had designed in the
early Cold War towards specialized air-to-air combat dogfighters.
Their influence stretched beyond design and into larger politicized
debates about US national security, debates that still resonate
today.
A biography of fighter pilot culture and the nostalgia that
drove decision-making, Flying Camelot deftly engages both
popular culture and archives to animate the movement that shook the
foundations of the Pentagon and Congress.
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F-15 Eagles
\"Engaging images accompany information about F-15 Eagles. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7\"--Provided by publisher.
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Jumping numbers of a simple complete ideal in a two-dimensional regular local ring
The multiplier ideals of an ideal in a regular local ring form a family of ideals parameterized by non-negative rational numbers. As
the rational number increases the corresponding multiplier ideal remains unchanged until at some point it gets strictly smaller. A
rational number where this kind of diminishing occurs is called a jumping number of the ideal.
In this manuscript we shall give
an explicit formula for the jumping numbers of a simple complete ideal in a two-dimensional regular local ring. In particular, we obtain
a formula for the jumping numbers of an analytically irreducible plane curve. We then show that the jumping numbers determine the
equisingularity class of the curve.
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F-14 Tomcats
\"Engaging images accompany information about F-14 Tomcats. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin
On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his
F-8 fighter after being hit while positioned over a target in North
Vietnam. With a cloud layer beneath him, he did not know if he was
over land-where he would most certainly be captured or killed by
the North Vietnamese-or over the Gulf of Tonkin. As he ejected,
both navy and air force aircraft were already heading toward him to
help. What followed was a dramatic rescue made by pilots and other
airmen with little or no training or experience in combat
search-and-rescue. Told by former military flight test engineer
Eileen A. Bjorkman, this story includes nail-biting descriptions of
air combat, flight, and rescue. Bjorkman places Sharp's story in
the larger context of the U.S. military's bedrock credo-No Man Left
Behind-and calls attention to the more than eighty thousand
Americans still missing from conflicts since World War I. She also
explores the devastating aftershocks of the Vietnam War as Sharp
struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. Woven into this
gripping tale is the fascinating history of combat
search-and-rescue missions that officially began in World War II.
Combining the cockiness and camaraderie of Top Gun with
the heroics of Sully , Unforgotten in the Gulf of
Tonkin is a riveting tale of combat rescue and an
unforgettable story about the U.S. military's commitment to leave
no man behind.
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F-16 Fighting Falcons
\"Engaging images accompany information about F-16 Fighting Falcons. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7\"--Provided by publisher.
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Scalability, Consistency, Reliability and Security in SDN Controllers: A Survey of Diverse SDN Controllers
Software Defined Networking simplifies design, monitoring and management of next generation networks by segregating a legacy network into a centralized control plane and a remotely programmable data plane. The intelligent centralized SDN control plane controls behavior of forwarding devices in processing the incoming packets and provides a bird-eye view of entire network at a single central point. The centralized control provides network programmability and facilitates introduction of adaptive and automatic network control. The SDN control plane can be implemented by using following three deployment models: (i) physically centralized, in which a single SDN controller is configured for a network; (ii) physically distributed but logically centralized, wherein multiple SDN controllers are used to manage a network; and (iii) hybrid, in which both legacy distributed control and centralized SDN control coexist. This manuscript presents all these control plane architectures and discusses various SDN controllers supporting these architectures. We have analyzed more than forty SDN controllers in terms of following performance parameters: scalability, reliability, consistency and security. We have examined the mechanisms used by various SDN controllers to address the said performance parameters and have highlighted the pros and cons associated with each mechanism. In addition to it, this manuscript also highlights number of research challenges and open issues in different SDN control plane architectures.
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