INFAMOUS AIRCRAFT: DANGEROUS DESIGNS AND THEIR VICES
Written by Robert Jackson
Published by Pen & Sword Aviation
in 2005
ISBN: 1844151727
INFAMOUS AIRCRAFT: DANGEROUS DESIGNS AND THEIR VICES
Written by Robert Jackson.
Stock no. 2139102
1st.
2005.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War One to the age of supersonic flight. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 170 pages. ISBN: 1844151727.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. Death Over The Trenches: the BE.2
- 2. Sopwith Camel: the Two-edged Sword
- 3. Death of a Giant: the Airship R. 101
- 4. The Mignet Flying Flea: a Dream that Went Wrong
- 5. Me 209: the Deadly Record-breaker
- 6. Trouble with Engines: the Avro Manchester and Hawker Typhoon
- 7. Terrible Twins
- 8. One-way Mission: Germany's Suicide Aircraft
- 9. Japan's 'Flaming Coffins'
- 10. The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet: Revolutionary and Deadly
- 11. The Parasite Fighters
- 12. France's Experimentals
- 13. Combat Flying Boats: the Jet Age's Lost Cause
- 14. Russia's Early Jets: the Ugly Ducklings
- 15. The X-Craft
- 16. The US Combat Aircraft: the Frustrating 'Fifties
- 17. Vertical Flight: the Uphill Path
- Index