Announcing COCKPIT II A FURTHER ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT INTERIORS

BY DONALD NIJBOER WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN PATTERSON Praise for Cockpit As you thumb through this book, you’ll swear you can smell oil and av-gas. Air and Space Magazine

Over 20,000 Sold Worldwide! The cockpit photographs are superb...you can not only Translated into German, Japanese, Italian. read every tiny placard, but see where a mechanic’s screwdriver Now in Soft cover! slipped while tightening an access panel. Pilot The writer [Donald Nijboer] and photographer Dan Patterson have triumphed in recording the ‘offices’ of 37 front-line aircraft of World War II. Air Pictorial Complete with a pilot’s perspective about each aircraft, Cockpit offers a unique look into the most revered and feared fighters and bombers of World War II. Pilot Journal

THE FIRST Cockpit book was able to highlight just 37 of the most famous front-line combat aircraft used by the Allies and Axis forces during the Second World War. There are many other aircraft cockpits that were just as famous but were over shad- owed by the likes of the Spitfire and Mustang - aircraft such as the Polish PZL P. 11, the first allied fighter to shoot down a German aircraft, the Curtiss Helldiver which delivered the final blows and sank the Japanese super battleship Yamamoto, the Fairey Firefly the world’s first long-range carrier borne strike fighter, the Grumman Avenger the world’s greatest torpedo bomber, and the Messerschmitt Bf 110 Germany’s deadliest night-fighter. Cockpit II will highlight 58 aircraft cockpits from: Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy, Poland, France, Netherlands and Sweden. No other book in the world has collected this many famous aircraft cockpits from so many coun- tries into one volume.

United Kingdom Lockheed Hudson Kawasaki Ki 61 Il-2 Shtormovik Fairey Albacore Consolidated PBY Kawasaki II8K Emily Sweden Fairey Fulmar Curtiss C-46 Yokosuka D4Y Judy F.22 Fairey Battle Douglas C-47 Yokosuka P1Y1 Ginga B-17 Vickers Wellington Kawasaki Ki-45 Nick J-21 Handley Page Halifax Germany Nakajima C6M1 Myrt Handley Page Hampden Dornier Do 335 Aichi M6A1 Seiran Italy Short Sunderland Dornier Do 24 Macchi Mc 200 Gloster Meteor Mk 1 Arado 234 Netherlands Macchi Mc 202 Westland Lysander Junkers Ju 52 Fokker D XXI Reggiane Re 2001 Boulton Paul Defiant Junkers Ju 88 Fiat CR 32 Bristol Beaufort Heinkel 162 Poland Fiat CR 42 Horsa Glider Heinkel He 111 PZL P.11 SM 79 Focke Wulf Ta 152 United States Messerschmitt Bf 110 Russia France Brewster Buffalo LaGG 3 Dewotine 520 Curtiss P-36 Japan La-7 Moraine Soulnier MS 406 Grumman Avenger Mitsubishi Raiden Mig-3 Curtiss Helldiver Nakajima Gekko I-153 Vought Kingfisher Nakajima Ki 84 I-16 Contact: Donald Nijboer, 801 King Street West #625,Toronto, Ontario Canada M5V 3C9 Email: [email protected] Ph: 416-203-2129