An illustrated look at combat jets of the world, from the earliest World War II examples to today's highly advanced F-22 and F-35. Includes cut-away schematics, photos, and cockpit views of each aircraft.

Warplanes have only been around for about 100 years. How have they changed from biplanes and triplanes to jets that fly faster than the speed of sound? Learn about fighter planes that are invisible to radar and bombers that can destroy whole cities.

"Militaries need fast and powerful machines in the air. Fighter jets, cargo planes, and other amazing aircraft zoom over land and water to get the job done!"--

When hunters stumble across a desiccated human hand clutching an incredibly rare coin, Liam Campbell is called in. The discovery leads him to the broken remains of a World War II-era transport plane emerging from the face of a calving glacier. For some sixty years the glacier has held its secrets close: Who was on the ill-fated flight? What were they doing? 74-year-old Lydia Tompkins might have had the answers Campbell needed, but now she's dead too...murdered...