Автор: Н.В.Якубович
Издательство: Русавиа
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 5900078515
Количество страниц: 110
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF (scan)
Автор на основе архивных материалов и воспоминаний ветеранов знакомит читателей с необычными самолетами и экранопланами, спроектированными Робертом Бартини, приехавшим в СССР из Италии в 1923 г. и посвятившим жизнь развитию советской авиации. Для любителей истории авиации.
Автор: Marek J Murawski
Издательство: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 8360445087
Количество страниц: 125
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Язык: польский/английский (Polish/English)
Another splendid monograph from Polish publisher, Kagero, featuring famous WWII aircraft in detail and scale. This volume covers the legendary Ju 87 'Stuka' and features masses of original black and white photos, twenty seven pages of 1/48 and 1/72 scale plans, side and three-views, and colour profiles.
Автор: Gunter Endres
Издательство: Ian Allan Ltd
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 071102409X
Количество страниц: 130
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This is a history of the UK’s aircraft manufacturing companies and their aircraft over the years, accompanied by a remarkably-fine selection of photographs. From ABC and Airco through to Westland and White & Thompson, this is a comprehensive work of reference to the once-great British aircraft industry.
Автор: Brian Cull
Издательство: Grub Street Publishing
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 1904010326
Количество страниц: 276
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Brewster B-339 Buffalo received much criticism during its brief service with the RAF, some justified, some not. Some of the pilots who eventually flew it in combat were happy with their mounts, others hated it as an operational fighter.
Rightly considered below par for service in the UK, the vast majority of the 170 aircraft acquired by the RAF Purchasing Commission from the United States was diverted for use in the Far East, where it was believed they would be superior to any Japanese aircraft encountered should hostilities break out there.
This assessment was to prove tragically very incorrect. When war did erupt, the Japanese Army Air Force - with its highly maneuverable Ki-27 and Ki-43 fighters - and the Japanese Navy Air Force equipped with the mighty A6M Zero, proved vastly superior in just about all aspects, and many of the Japanese fighter pilots were veterans of the war against China.
By contrast, the majority of the young British, New Zealand, and Australian pilots who flew the Buffalo on operations in Malaya and at Singapore were little more than trainees, and many flew into battle with only the basic training of their trade.
Nonetheless, these fledgling fighter pilots achieved much greater success than could have been anticipated, although many paid with their lives.
This is their story, complete with appendices and previously unpublished source material and photographs.
Автор: Ron MacKay, Steve Adams
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0764318853
Количество страниц: 268
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The 44th Bomb Group, which flew the B-24 Liberator, was the pioneer unit for what evolved from the Mighty Eighths 2nd Bomb Wing into a full-scale Bomb (and later Air) Division. The Group amassed an impressive 343 missions and won two Distinguished Unit Citations between November 1942 and April 1945, dropping nearly 19,000 tons of ordnance in the process including the legendary August 1943 Ploesti mission. These statistics were achieved at a material cost of around 200 aircraft, and a human cost of some 2,000 airmen MIA, as the 8th USAAF focused its strategic bombing campaign in the face of determined Luftwaffe opposition.
Автор: James Goulding
Издательство: Ian Allan Ltd
Год издания: 1986
isbn: 071101583X
Количество страниц: 192
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
A fine history of the development and operation of the RAF's range of single-seat multi-gun fighters from the Sopwiths of WWI and the Spitfires and Hurricanes of WW2 through to the Vampire, Meteor, Hunter, Swift and Lightnings of the post-war RAF. Missing: cover.
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