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X-Planes. German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930-1945

Door Manfred Griehl

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#214552
Titel
X-Planes. German Luftwaffe Prototypes 1930-1945
Auteur
Griehl, Manfred
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Frontline Books, London
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
1848328494
ISBN13
9781848328495
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Renowned German aviation specialist Manfred Griehl has collected a unique and valuable selection of photographs of Luftwaffe projects that never made it into battle. They remained on the drawing board or at prototype stage either because they were deemed unsuitable or the developers simply ran out of time and the projects never went into production.

Most photographs come from the development sites and testing grounds of the major manufacturers of Nazi Germany: companies such as Dornier, Junkers, Focke-Wulf and Heinkel all received funding from the government to develop bigger and faster aircraft. A huge amount of private testing went on with major organizations such as Daimler-Benz, BMW and Siemens investing huge amounts in new engine systems and other advances such as radar.

This bo... (Lees verder)ok also details the innumerable alterations that were made to existing service aircraft to equip them for new roles. There are examples of Fw190s developed for the delivery of chemical and toxic weapons, the high altitude Junkers EF 61, the early prototype WNF 342 helicopter as well as numerous examples of developmental jet fighters that could very well have been realized had it not been for the effectiveness of the Allied bombing campaign in restricting the supply of necessary materials.
Pagina's
313
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 11,00

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