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Secret Weapons, Experimental Designs, Jet Aircra Ft, Rockets & Missiles • X-Planes 56 SECRET WEAPONS, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS, JET AIRCRA FT, ROCKETS & MISSILES • X-PLANES Me 262 A-1a David Myhra. Featured Messerschmitt Me 262 Manfred Griehl. De- Germany’s V-2 Rocket Gregory P. Kennedy. is the Me 262A-1a, the standard fi ghter tailed one-volume short history of the legendary Although dwarfed by today’s giant rockets, the variant of this famed WWII aircraft. WWII-era Lufwaffe jet fi ghter. V-2 represented a quantum leap beyond anything Size: 11"x8.5" • 400 bw photos • 216pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 80 color/bw photos • 52pp. previously built. During the last six months of the ISBN: 0-7643-1939-6 • hard • $39.95 ISBN: 0-88740-820-6 • soft • $14.95 war in Europe, Germany launched thousands of these missiles against the Allies. This book traces the origins and development of the V-2, 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 Me 262: Versions A-1a Jabo Natter & other German Rocket Jet German Guided Missiles Heinz through A-5a David Myhra. Featured Projects. Short history of the unusual J. Nowarra. Rare look at WWII-era are the Me 262 “A" series types from WWII-era Luftwaffe manned rocket German air-to-air, surface-to-air, and the A-1a jabo through the A-5 and in- powered interceptor aircraft. air-to-ground guided missiles. cluding bomber, recon, night-fi ghter Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos • 48pp. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos/drawings and other variants. ISBN: 0-88740-682-3 • soft • $9.95 • 48pp. Size: 11"x8.5" • 400 bw photos • 216pp. ISBN: 0-88740-475-8 • soft • $9.95 ISBN: 0-7643-2058-0 • hard • $39.95 X-PLANES OF THE THIRD REICH SERIES Messerschmitt Me 262: Development, Sänger: Germany’s Orbital Rocket Bomber Testing, Production Radinger & Schick. in WWII David Myhra. Sänger’s proposed Focke-Wulf Ta 183 David Myhra. Rare Accounts of the developments of the fi ghter, manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital look at the late-WWII-era Luftwaffe jet fighter/bomber, reconnaissance, and night bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. The fi g h t e r d e s i g n . fi g h t e r v e r s i o n s . world’s fi rst intercontinental bomber project, Size: 11"x8.5" • 120 photos • 64pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 150 color/bw photos • 112pp. the Sänger orbital bomber’s total fl ight time ISBN: 0-7643-0907-2 • soft • $9.95 ISBN: 0-88740-516-9 • hard • $24.95 was expected to be no more than two hours. Size: 8.5"x11" • 575 color/bw photos • 176pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1549-8 • hard • $39.95 Horten Ho 9 David Myhra. The Horten brothers’ all wing aircraft and its tech- nical history. Messerschmitt Me 262 and its Variants Vertical Takeoff Fighter Aircraft of the Size: 11"x8.5" • 150 photos • 80pp. Manfred Griehl. This book is a concise history of Third Reich Miranda/Mercado. Rare, illus- ISBN: 0-7643-0916-1 • soft • $12.95 the world’s fi rst operational jet fi ghter in World trated look at the operational, prototype, and War II. This legendary Luftwaffe aircraft is shown planned vertical take-off vehicles during the in photos, line schemes, and color profi les. Third Reich period. Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 color/bw photos • 50pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 90 bw photos • 40pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4048-2 • soft • $14.99 ISBN: 0-7643-1435-1 • soft • $14.95 Messerschmitt P. 1101 David Myhra. Rare look at the late-WWII-era Luft- waffe swept-wing jet fi ghter design. Size: 11"x8.5" • 100 photos • 64pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0908-0 • soft • $9.95 Messerschmitt Me 262: Arrow to the V1: The Flying Bomb Joachim En- Future Walter J. Boyne. Even by today’s engi- gelmann. Concise history of the noto- neering standards, magnifi cent is the only word rious WWII-era German fl ying bomb Messerschmitt Me 263 David Myhra. to describe the effort to bring the plane’s jet including its technical and operational The late-war anticipated successor to engines, which eclipsed the performance of all developments. the Luftwaffe’s Me 163 rocket fi ghter. contemporary aircraft, from the laboratory to Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos/drawings Size: 11"x8.5" • 100 photos • 64pp. production in an amazingly short time. Includes • 48pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0909-9 • soft • $9.95 operational photos from WW II, cockpit views, ISBN: 978-0-88740-408-5 • soft • $14.99 and interior/exterior shots of the restored Me 262. Size: 8"x10" • 100 color/bw photos • 192pp. ISBN: 0-88740-665-3 • soft • $19.95 Heinkel He 162 David Myhra. Concise history of the unusual, wooden late-war Me 262: The World’s First Tur- The V1 and its Soviet Successors Wilfried Luftwaffe jet fi ghter. bo-Jet Fighter Vol.1 Heinrich Hecht. Kopenhagen. Follow-up volume on the German Size: 11"x8.5" • 200 photos • 96pp. Concise history of the famed WWII-era V-1 Buzz Bomb and the post-war experiments ISBN: 0-7643-0955-2 • soft • $14.95 Lufwaffe jet fi ghter including its techni- by the U.S. and USSR. cal development and operational use. Size: 8.5"x11" • 80 bw photos/drawings • 48pp. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1274-X • soft • $9.95 ISBN: 0-88740-234-8 • soft • $9.95 Bachem Ba 349 Natter David Myhra. The WWII-era Luftwaffe manned rocket interceptor in a concise history. Size: 11"x8.5" • 200 photos • 128pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1032-1 • soft • $14.95 Me 262: The World’s First Tur- V2: Dawn of the Rocket Age Joa- bo-Jet Fighter Vol.2 Manfred Grie- chim Engelmann. Concise history of hl. Companion volume on the famed the WWII-era German ballistic missile, Luftwaffe Me 262 jet fi ghter. its development and operational use. Messerschmitt Me 209V1 David Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos • 48pp. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos/drawings Myhra. Rare look at Messerschmitt’s ISBN: 0-88740-410-3 • soft • $9.95 • 48pp. high-speed prototype and its devel- ISBN: 978-0-88740-233-3 • soft • $14.99 opment and use. Size: 11"x8.5" • 200 photos • 112pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1107-7 • soft • $14.95.
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