- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Midland Publishing; 2nd Revised edition edition (10 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857800923
- ISBN-13: 978-1857800920
- Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 22.1 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 429,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With access to much previously unpublished information the authors bring to life futuristic shapes that might have terrorised the Allies had the war gone beyond 1945. Illustrations show vividly what might have been achieved.'
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential reading for military aviation enthusiasts,
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This review is from: Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers, 1935-1945 v. 2 (Hardcover)
If you have "Luftwaffe Secret Projects-fighters," by Walter Schick and Ingolf Meyer, this complementary volume on Strategic bombers is a "must have." The book is well written and brings to light a number of previously unseen aircraft designs. The presentation is typical of current Midland books and the illustrations are first rate. I particularly liked the background information on Luftwaffe officials and company designers, often accompanied by rare photographs that put faces to names. There are a few anomalies to be found, such as Chapter Eight, which briefly diverts onto tactical bombers. To my way of thinking, the word "Strategic," should have been left off the main title. You will also find a few gaps here and there, with little information on the advanced Arado 234 proposals (prior to E.560) or the various plans to use this jet as a launch platform for the Fi 103 flying bomb. Two other notable omissions are the Sanger spaceplane and the manned A-9 rocket, which were both serious long range bomber proposals for use against North American targets. I hope there are plans to bring out a third volume which deals with German WW11 ramjet and rocket powered designs. Everything said, this is an excellent piece of work and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone interested in military aviation.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent illustrations,
This review is from: Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers, 1935-1945 v. 2 (Hardcover)
Thumbing through this book is like reading a 1950s pulp science fictioncomic: pictures and illustrations of wildly exotic aircraft abound. Itchronicles Nazi Germany's remarkable scientific achievements in the fieldof aviation, the emphasis of course being the bomber projects.Most of these projects thankfully never left the wind tunnel (if they evengot that far), let alone front line use, but the Luftwaffe's enormousinfluence on the combat aircraft today can be traced among the pages ofthis excellent book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Strategic Bombers, 1935-1945 v. 2 (Hardcover)
I have been looking for this particular type of book for ages as i have been making model aircraft for some time and have lately been drawn towards the very first jets especialy 1945 Germany.What a raft of genius came out of such hellish and outlandish politics! If the resources had been available to the Luftwaffe we should not now live in a free world.This book is extremly well laid out and especially easy to access your particular plane. Most excellent illustrations and easy to follow technical information, accessable to the amatour and not to boringly academic. I would readily recomend this book to both the aviation enthusiast and book browser.
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