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The WarBirds database is divided into seven main topics.
WarBirds in Battle:
WarBirds in Battle presents narrated scenes of famous air battles, as well as a reading of "High Flight," a poem by an RAF pilot. The illustrations were composed using the clip art and tools available in WarBirds DRAW.
Famous Aces:
Famous Aces presents lists of the highest-scoring aces of the First and Second World Wars, with the number of each pilot's victories. In addition, there are narrated stories about prominent aces from both wars, personal glimpses and defining moments. As you read these sketches, you can click on the highlighted names of the aircraft they flew and those they battled against to see pop-up identification silhouettes of them. (You'll find complete descriptions in the Aircraft Specifications.)
Greatest WarBirds:
Greatest WarBirds is an arbitrary list of the top twenty greatest WarBirds, with a writeup explaining why it is on the list. When you click on a warbird's name, its specifications appear and the sound of an actual flyby of that aircraft plays.
Where To See WarBirds:
Where To See WarBirds allows you to select maps of Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Europe, and the United States. On these maps are dots marking the location of aviation museums or exhibits; click on them to see popups with complete information about the museums. The Index also allows you to view and print lists of museums by countries and states.
Appendix:
The Appendix gives you a choice of several informative topics: A Brief Survey of Military Aviation, a brief history of the field; Fighter Development, or how Wilbur and Orville's invention became the weapon of the century; Manufacturers of WarBirds, which contains information about nearly every firm - U.S. and foreign - that has had anything to do with WarBirds; Movies Which Feature WarBirds, an admittedly incomplete list; Recommended Reading; and Nose Art, some of which is illustrated above.
Glossary:
What's an empennage? What are fairings? The Glossary will tell you what they are and much more. In addition to serving as a dictionary of aviation terminology, the Glossary is where you'll find all the information contained in the popup definitions throughout WarBirds.
WarBirds Sound Effects:
WarBirds Sound Effects allows you to play sound clips from three categories: Special F/X, War of Words, and Aircraft Flybys. Special -F/X has such clips as aerial battles, air raid sirens, antiaircraft fire, dive bombers, and the London Blitz. War of Words presents actual recordings of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery, Dwight Eisenhower, Charles DeGaulle, Adolf Hitler, and other famous leaders. Aircraft Flybys plays the sounds of famous WarBirds, such as the Spitfire, P-51 Mustang, and P-40 Warhawk.
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