Supermarine Spitfire
Author : Chaz Bowyer
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Spitfire (Fighter plane)
ISBN : 9780831779665
Author : Chaz Bowyer
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Spitfire (Fighter plane)
ISBN : 9780831779665
Author : Charles Ferdinand Andrews
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 940 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : David Owen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2015-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1473830680
Innumerable books have been published on the two most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf109. But books setting out to tell the story of both aircraft are very much rarer - probably fewer than the fingers of one hand. Yet their joint story is one which bears retelling since both were essential to the air campaigns of World War Two.Incredibly, the men who designed them lacked any experience of designing a modern fighter. R J Mitchell had begun his career working on industrial steam locomotives, Willy Messerschmitt had cut his aeronautical teeth on light and fragile gliders and sporting planes. Yet both men not only managed to devise aircraft which could hold their own in a world where other designs went from state-of-the-art to obsolete in a staggeringly short time, but their fighters remained competitive over six years of front-line combat. Despite the different ways their creators approached their daunting tasks and the obstacles each faced in acceptance by the services for which they were designed, they proved to be so closely matched that neither side gained a decisive advantage in a titanic struggle. Had either of them not matched up to its opponent so well, then the air war would have been a one-sided catastrophe ending in a quick defeat for the Allies or the Axis powers, and the course of twentieth century history would have been changed beyond recognition.
Author : Mike Spick
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1996-05
Category : Fighter planes
ISBN : 9780517184639
This detailed account charts the history, development and operational career of the Supermarine Spitfire, which proved its versatility time and time again on all fronts during the Second World War.
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Aeronautics
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Includes a mid-December issue called Buyer guide edition.
Author : Sebastian Ritchie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780714647241
The author examines the relationship between industry and the state during the period immediately before the Second World War when increasing tension resulted in large government contracts.
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Page : 932 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1953
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