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In 1945 the Allies returned home with much technical information from German research concerning jet engines and swept wings. Though the USAAF had already deployed an early batch of jet fighters, Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars, to Italy in 1945, their centrifugal-flow engines had limited scope for further development compared with the axial-flow engines used by the Germans. Also, it was obvious that a new breed of airframes was needed to take advantage of the huge power increase offered by jet engines: the answer was the swept wing carefully coupled with a blended fuselage.
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Kev Darling spent more than twenty years in the Royal Air Force, engineering aircraft ranging in size from the Tiger Moth to the Tristar. Medically discharged after the first Gulf War, he strengthened his writing career, which had begun in 1986. Since then he has authored numerous magazine articles and more than twenty books and monographs. This is his seventh book for Crowood.
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Information contained in Volume 2 is not necessarily a re-hash of older material. There is some repetition from other books, but this one contains some "new" information that supplements other authors.
Therefore, this volume is an excellent adjunct to the serious aviation historian, and well-worth the cost.
Therefore, this volume is an excellent adjunct to the serious aviation historian, and well-worth the cost.
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