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Secret Weapons, Experimental Designs, Jet Aircraft, Rockets & Missiles • Miscellaneous Aircraft & Topics 44 SECRET WEAPONS, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS, JET AIRCRAFT, ROCKETS & MISSILES • MISCELLANEOUS AIRCRAFT & TOPICS Messerschmitt Me 262 Manfred Griehl. De- Germany’s V-2 Rocket Gregory P. Kennedy. Mistel: The Piggy-Back Aircraft of the tailed one-volume short history of the legendary Although dwarfed by today’s giant rockets, the Luftwaffe H.P. Dabrowski. This unusual late- WWII-era Lufwaffe jet fighter. V-2 represented a quantum leap beyond anything war tandem bomb was actually used by the Size: 8.5”x11” • 80 color/bw photos • 52pp. previously built. During the last six months of the Luftwaffe during WWII. Covered are technical ISBN: 0-88740-820-6 • soft • $14.95 war in Europe, Germany launched thousands details of aircraft used, as well as operational info. of these missiles against the Allies. This book Size: 8.5”x11” • 80 bw photos/drawings • 52pp. traces the origins and development of the V-2, ISBN: 0-88740-668-8 • soft • $9.95 from groups of individual experimenters in the 1930s to its use as a weapon system. Size: 8.5”x11” • 130 bw photos • 136pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2452-7 • hard • $39.95 Natter & other German Rocket Jet German Guided Missiles Heinz Projects. Short history of the unusual J. Nowarra. Rare look at WWII-era German Nightfighters WWIIMan - WWII-era Luftwaffe manned rocket German air-to-air, surface-to-air, and fred Griehl. Concise photo history of the powered interceptor aircraft. air-to-ground guided missiles. wide variy of WWII Luftwaffe aircraft Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos • 48pp. Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos/drawings used in nightfighter mode. ISBN: 0-88740-682-3 • soft • $9.95 • 48pp. Size: 11”x8.25 • 80 bw photos/drawings ISBN: 0-88740-475-8 • soft • $9.95 • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-200-5 • soft • $14.99 MISCELLANEOUS AIRCRAFT & TOPICS Sänger: Germany’s Orbital Rocket Bomber German Anti-Tank Aircraft Dressel & Griehl. in WWII David Myhra. Sänger’s proposed Concise photo history of the wide variety of German Short-Range Reconnais- manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital WWII Luftwaffe aircraft used in anti-tank and sance Planes 1930-45 Dressel & bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. The ground-attack modes. Griehl. Illustrated look at the variety world’s first intercontinental bomber project, Size: 8.5”x11” • 80 bw photos/drawings • 52pp. of Luftwaffe recon aircraft of WWII. the Sänger orbital bomber’s total flight time ISBN: 0-88740-520-7 • soft • $9.95 Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos/drawings was expected to be no more than two hours. • 48pp. Size: 8.5”x11” • 575 color/bw photos • 176pp. ISBN: 0-88740-190-2 • soft • $9.95 ISBN: 0-7643-1549-8 • hard • $39.95 Vertical Takeoff Fighter Aircraft of the German Gliders in WWII Heinz J. Third Reich Miranda/Mercado. Rare, illus- Nowarra. Illustrated look at WWII-era German Twin-Engine Bombers of trated look at the operational, prototype, and German gliders including development WWII Manfred Griehl. Concise look planned vertical take-off vehicles during the and operational use. at the Luftwaffe’s WWII twin-engine Third Reich period. Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos/drawings bombers including the He 111 and Ju 88. Size: 8.5”x11” • 90 bw photos • 40pp. • 48pp. Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos/drawings ISBN: 0-7643-1435-1 • soft • $14.95 ISBN: 0-88740-358-1 • soft • $9.95 • 48pp. ISBN: 0-88740-191-0 • soft • $9.95 German Gliders in WWII: Luftwaffe Gliders German Heavy Bombers Griehl & Dressel. Il- V1: The Flying Bomb Joachim En- and their Powered Variants Mankau & Petrick. lustrated look at WWII Luftwaffe heavy bombers gelmann. Concise history of the noto- This book describes the various types used by the including the Do 19, Fw 200, He 177 and others. rious WWII-era German flying bomb Luftwaffe in WWII, and their development are Size: 8.5”x11” • 80 bw photos/drawings • 48pp. including its technical and operational described in detail – from military gliders for a ISBN: 0-88740-670-X • soft • $9.95 developments. few soldiers to large-capacity gliders capable of Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos/drawings transporting tanks. • 48pp. Size: 8.5”x11” • 450 bw photos • 304pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-408-5 • soft • $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-7643-3519-8 • hard • $69.99 German Helicopters Heinz J. Nowarra. Luftwaffe Airfield Equipment Griehl & The V1 and its Soviet Successors Wilfried Rare illustrated look at pre-war and Dressel. Rare look at the wide variety of equip- Kopenhagen. Follow-up volume on the German WWII-era German helicopters. ment on WWII Luftwaffe airfields including start V-1 Buzz Bomb and the post-war experiments Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos/drawings carts, refuelers, transporters and many others. by the U.S. and USSR. • 48pp. Size: 8.5”x11” • 80 bw photos/drawings • 52pp. Size: 8.5”x11” • 80 bw photos/drawings • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-289-0 • soft • $14.99 ISBN: 0-88740-482-0 • soft • $9.95 ISBN: 0-7643-1274-X • soft • $9.95 Flettner Fl 282 Rare, illustrated look at the Ground Radar Systems of the Luftwaffe V2: Dawn of the Rocket Age Joa- world’s first production helicopter, its develop- 1939-45 Werner Müller. Highly detailed look at chim Engelmann. Concise history of ment, construction and use by the Luftwaffe the wide variety of radar and advance warning the WWII-era German ballistic missile, in WWII. systems used by the Luftwaffe during WWII. its development and operational use. Size: 8.5”x11” • 60 bw photos • 32pp. Size: 8.5”x11” • 80 bw photos, drawings • 48pp. Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos/drawings ISBN: 0-88740-921-0 • soft • $12.95 ISBN: 0-7643-0567-0 • soft • $9.95 • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-233-3 • soft • $14.99.
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