The Blohm & Voss Bv 141
Author: Richard A. Franks
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Published: 2014
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ISBN-13: 9780957586673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard A. Franks
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Published: 2014
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ISBN-13: 9780957586673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: RICHARD A. FRANKS
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781912932191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Myhra
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780764313974
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A concise history pictorial of Richard Vogt's well known asymmetrical flying machine. Includes many never before published photographs and schematics. AUTHOR:
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781853104138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the end of World War II, Eric Brown had the extraordinary experience of testing no fewer than 55 captured individual German aircraft types. These ranged from such exotic creations as the prone-pilot Berlin B9 and Horten IV, the push-and-pull Dornier DO335 and the remarkable little Heinkel He 162 Volksjager, to the highly innovative combat types that were entering the inventory of the Luftwaffe shortly before the demise of Germany's Third Reich. Brown also interrogated many of the leading German wartime aviation personalities, such as Willy Messerschmitt, Ernst Heinkel, Kurt Tank and Hanna Reitsch. From this background knowledge of German aviation he has selected those he considers the most important, and presents detailed descriptions of their background and characteristics.
Author: Thomas Newdick
Publisher: Amber Books
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781782749714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Whittle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-04-27
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1416563199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →WHEN THE MARINES decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty- three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps’ own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft’s problems. Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.
Author: Richard A. Franks
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780957586697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tony Wood
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780517187715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pounding the enemy from the skies, the German Luftwaffe was the symbol of Hitler's power. With its decline came the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. This history includes a glossary of terms and abbreviations and an appendix detailing the Luftwaffe chain of command. More than 250 authentic color photos and over 130 full-color illustrations.
Author: Hans H. Amtmann
Publisher: Monogram Aviation Pub
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780914144359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An autobiography in text and illustratuions of the life of Hans Amtmann who was brought to the US after war under Operation Paperclip...the collection of talented former German aerospace designers and engineers. Amtmann worked for Heinkel, Junkers and Blohm & Voss during the war. He became a US citizen and worked for Convair. In 2004 he is 98 years of age and still interested in aviation history!