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Anatomy of the Ship: The Aircraft Carrier Hiryu
65,00 €Hiryu was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1930s. Her aircraft supported the Japanese invasion of French Indochina in mid-1940 and during the first month of the Pacific War, she took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Wake Island. She supported the conquest of the Dutch East Indies in January 1942 and her aircraft bombed Darwin, Australia, and continued to assist in the Dutch East Indies campaign. In April, Hiryu’s aircraft helped sink two British heavy cruisers and several merchant ships during the Indian Ocean raid.
Drawing on new research and technology, this edition is the most comprehensive examination of Hiryu ever published. It includes a complete set of detailed line drawings with fully descriptive keys and full-color 3D artwork, supported by technical details, photographs, and text on the building of the ship and a record of the ship’s service history.
Content:
Introduction
Technical Description
History
Primary Views
The Drawings:
A General arrangements
B Hull structure
C Superstructure
D Rig
E Armament
F Fittings
G Aircraft
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Arado Ar 234 Blitz Bombers. The World’s First Jet Bomber Design & Development. Bomber & Reconn. Operations
69,95 €This study is the result of nearly fifty years of research and draws upon original Arado, German Air Ministry and Luftwaffe reports and documents, as well as pilot accounts compiled from interviews and personal correspondence, original war diaries, memoirs and other unpublished sources associated with the Ar 234’s design, development and operations. The text is augmented by superlative colour artwork and many technical drawings.
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Flugzeuge des Zweiten Weltkriegs
39,90 €This book presents itself as a new standard work in the aviation segment:
The aircraft of the Second World War illustrated throughout and with specially made three-side-views for the comparability of the aircraft, this volume provides the reader with a compact yet complete overview of all important military aircraft from 15 countries, which were built and used from 1930 to 1945. Well-founded texts combined with meaningful data tables make this extensive compendium an informative and contemporary reference work. A must for every aviation library and already an absolute classic!
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Soviet and Russian Special Mission Aircraft
54,00 €In the years after WWII, aircraft used for special missions appeared in the worlds leading air forces, including the Soviet Union. The first airborne early warning and control aircraft was the early 1960s vintage Tupolev Tu-126, superseded in the 1980s by the Ilyushin/Beriyev A-50. Aircraft used for photo reconnaissance, electronic intelligence, nuclear/biological/chemical reconnaissance and radiation intelligence, included specialised versions the Tu-16 and Tu-22 bombers, the An-12 transport and the Il-22PP.
Communications relay aircraft ranged from modified Lisunov Li-2 transports of the 1950s to the current Tu-214SR. In-flight refuelling tankers including versions of the Tupolev Tu-16 and Myasishchev M-4/3MS series bombers and the Il-78. Search and rescue aircraft, such as the naval An-12PS, also are featured in this comprehensive and heavily illustrated book.