Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Ground Attack & Special Purpose Aircraft
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1857801504 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Super Work!" according to Chuck W. Mr's Herwig and Rode, an excellent work on the topic. I found this book to be very informative, had interesting and rare photos, the illustrations and line drawings were excellent, and it was easy to read. There were some items discussed that I had never heard of, namely the "Flammelwerfer" or flamethrower on the rear of an aircraft. All in all, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject. A tr. "Pretty Pictures, but disappointing research" according to Emmanuel Gustin. Page 7 of this book contains a remarkable Publisher's Note, in which the publisher acknowledges the efforts of translator Ted Oliver (for this book was originally written in German) for his efforts to improve on the original version and the addition of "commentary on the author's erroneous text repeated from sources known to be incorrect or speculative." It must be almost unique to have such a statement in the fore. They were ten years ahead. In this third book of their series on Luftwaffe Secret projects the authors have found some 1They were ten years ahead. John Matlock In this third book of their series on Luftwaffe Secret projects the authors have found some 140 aircraft that were proposed and/or developed for military use by the various German companies. The war years, for Germany were accompanied by great leaps in engine design. The engines of the ME-262 jet fighter, the rocket engine of the ME-163, the V-1 Buzz bombs pulse jet engine and improved traditional engines were all . 0 aircraft that were proposed and/or developed for military use by the various German companies. The war years, for Germany were accompanied by great leaps in engine design. The engines of the ME-262 jet fighter, the rocket engine of the ME-163, the V-1 Buzz bombs pulse jet engine and improved traditional engines were all
This new addition takes a close look at a varied range of aircraft types, principally described as ground-attack and special-purpose types, but which includes Kampfzerstörer (multi-purpose combat aircraft), multi-purpose and fast bombers, explosive-carrying aircraft intended to attack other aircraft, air-to-air ramming vehicles, bomb-carrying gliders and towed fighters, and airborne weapons and special devices (rockets, cannons, flame-throwers, etc.) As in the first two volumes, the technical descriptions and histor
. By the war's end he had been posted to Berlin-Adlershof, where he was a member of staff of the Chief of Aircraft Procurement and Supply's Central Scientific Records Office for Aviation Research (ZWB), which was subordinated to the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium (RLM). Dieter Herwig has built up one of the largest aviation collections in Germany and heads the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luftfahrtdokumentation (German Association for Aviation Documentation) and the Deutsches Studienbüro für Luftfahrt (German Aviation Study Bureau) in Frankfurt am Main. About the Author Dieter Herwig, born i
His special interests are aviation and space. Dieter Herwig, born in 1926, was called up for service with the Luftwaffen-Lehrregiment at Berlin-Gatow, on the strength of his earlier flying training. The fine color illustrations in this book are all products of his talent and brush. Heinz Rode, born in Berlin in 1932, has been a