Wings of the Luftwaffe
Wings of the Luftwaffe

Author: Eric Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781902109152

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"During the first chaotic months after the fall of the Third Reich, the RAE sent test pilots throughout the British Zone of Occupation to collect examples of the Luftwaffe's standard aircraft and then ferry them to Farnborough. Captain Eric Brown was a pilot in this ferrying operation. Here Brown delivers a detailed assessment of the characteristics of these principal German aircraft: Fw200C; Heinkel He162; Junkers Ju87; Dornier Do217; Messerschmitt Me262, Bf109G, Bf110, Me163, and several others."--Publisher's description.

Wings of the Luftwaffe
Wings of the Luftwaffe

Author: Eric Brown

Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781853104138

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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.

The Ultimate Flying Wings of the Luftwaffe
The Ultimate Flying Wings of the Luftwaffe

Author: Justo Miranda

Publisher:

Published: 2014-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781781553725

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WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. With the Allied forces pushing into Germany, a desperate Hitler launched the next breed of German aircraft. Imagine a strange triangular bomber, that could not be detected by radar or intercepted by fighters, launching an inextinguishable ball of fire over London which destroys the city and its surroundings up to the sea. Or perhaps a black boomerang sixty meters long drops two tons of anthrax over Washington and New York, making them uninhabitable for fifty years.

Eagles Wings
Eagles Wings

Author: Herrmann Hajo

Publisher:

Published: 2004-05-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781841451299

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Eagle's Wings is the autobiography of Hajo Herrmann, one of the best known Luftwaffe pilots of World War II. With well over three hundred perational missions and with a tally of nine RAF bombers destroyed during mass attacks on Germany the author was one of the most successful Luftwaffe pilots of World War II. The author writes about his career from the early days when he was an officer cadet in the German army, through his experiences as a founder member of the Condor Legion in Spain, to the part he played in the war. Herrmann was an acknowledged expert in anti-shipping operations, a divisional commander and creator of the 'Wild Boar' Wilde Sau method of night fighting. He was a close confidant of Hermann Goring, who promoted him to high office in the fighter defence of the Third Reich. Ten years as a prisoner of war in Russia, questions from historians and institutions, and his passion for flying encouraged him to write this account. Hajo Herrmann is a gifted writer and a dedicated historian making Eagle's Wings more than the biography of an outstanding airman: it is also a unique contribution to the history of a turbulent era.

JG 26 Luftwaffe Fighter Wing War Diary
JG 26 Luftwaffe Fighter Wing War Diary

Author: Donald Caldwell

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0811711471

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Day-by-day account of a German fighter squadron, one of only two Luftwaffe units to spend the entire war in the West Covers D-Day and the Normandy campaign, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge, and more JG 26 was known as "The Abbeville Boys" and seen as an elite squadron Unit flew Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Focke-Wulf Fw 190s

Wings of the Black Cross
Wings of the Black Cross

Author: Mark Proulx

Publisher: Eagle Editions Limited

Published: 2013-05-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780979403590

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Authored by Mark Proulx, this book contains 36 pages of black and white photos, some in color. Exciting, rare photos of a BF 109 as flown by Oblt. Josef "Pips" Priller and numerous other interesting Luftwaffe aircraft including: BF 109 E-1 of III./JG 26 "Schlageter" from late 1939.Bf 109 K-4 with W.Nr.Bf 109 G-6 with W.Nr applied on non-standard places.Bf 109 E-3 belonging to Oblt. Josef "Pips" Priller.The Neubiberg dump site with two Me 262's, including W.Nr. 111728 and the tail of W.Nr. 110376, plus "White 7."Me 262 A with the unconfirmed W.Nr. of 130015 with a large V015 on the side of the cockpit.He 177 A-5 found in France in 1944.The second prototype Ar 232 fitted with defensive armament.Ar 232 B with Air Min 17.Ju 288 V2.Me 410, 7A+KH in a derelict state.He 219 A-010 V17.Ju-290, 9V+AB at Brunnthal in derelict condition.But that's not all. There are some Fw-200 photos and several aircraft in British markings, and more

Wings of the Weird & Wonderful
Wings of the Weird & Wonderful

Author: Eric Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781902109169

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Eric 'Winkle' Brown, the former Chief Naval Test Pilot and Commanding Officer of the renowned Aerodynamics Flight at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having flown more types of aircraft than any other pilot in the world. The ground rules for this assessment were that only pilot-in-command flights should count, and that marks or variants of a basic type of aircraft were not included. This remarkable record is reflected in the fact that Captain Brown is both the most decorated Fleet Air Arm and British test pilot. The variety of aircraft he has flown is incredible, and though his test and naval flying writings are already internationally known, he now has opened up pages of his flying log books to reveal some of the more unusual types in his unique experience, and to relate their virtues or vices. From the infamous Mitsubishi Zero-Sen and U.S. Navy's piston-engine Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat to the post-war swept-wing de Havilland Swallow. From the North American Savage designed to take off from an aircraft carrier with a nuclear bomb to the Supermarine Attacker, Eric 'Winkle' Brown has tested their qualities and takes the reader into the cockpits of those exciting aircraft to thrill to the joys and hazards of flying both weird and wonderful aircraft with one of the greatest of all pilots.

Luftwaffe Test Pilot
Luftwaffe Test Pilot

Author: Hans-Werner Lerche

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Afprøvning af erobrede flytyper (Beuteflugzeugen) i det tidligere Luftwaffen-Testzentrum, Rechlin, under 2. verdenskrig. Forfatteren virkede endvidere som testpilot på mange af Tysklands egne nyudviklede fly. Fløj ialt 125 forskellige flytyper.

The Ultimate Piston Fighters of the Luftwaffe
The Ultimate Piston Fighters of the Luftwaffe

Author: Justo Miranda

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781781552490

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The extreme designs of German piston fighters which were left on the drawing board as soon as the first jet engines were available for the mass manufacture of the Messerschmitt Me 262

Wings of the Rising Sun
Wings of the Rising Sun

Author: Mark Chambers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1472823710

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A fascinating insight into how the Allies learned about the capabilities and limitations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force and Japanese Army Air Force through flight testing and evaluation of enemy equipment. In the Pacific War's early years, Japanese air power was dominant. The only way for the Allies to defeat their enemy was to know it. This made the task of maintaining productive intelligence gathering efforts on Japan imperative. Establishing Technical Air Intelligence Units in the Pacific Theatre and the Technical Air Intelligence Center in Washington DC, the Allies were able to begin to reveal the secrets of Japanese air power through extensive flight testing and evaluation of captured enemy aircraft and equipment. These provided an illuminating perspective on Japanese aircraft and aerial weapon design philosophy and manufacturing practice. Fully illustrated throughout with a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, Mark Chambers explores Allied efforts to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese air power during the war years, and how this intelligence helped them achieve victory in the Pacific.