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Book Synopsis Polikarpov Fighters Of The Spanish Civil War by : Erik Pilawskii
Download or read book Polikarpov Fighters Of The Spanish Civil War written by Erik Pilawskii and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume no.6 of the Profile & Scale series illuminates the various Polikarpov fighters of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The book is fully bi-lingual Spanish and English text, to include all captions, descriptions and references. More than 70 full-colour profiles document the appearance of these famous I-15s and I-16s, or Chatos and Moscas, in unstinting detail and accuracy. All-original, never previously published 1:48 scale line drawings are provided for the I-15 from all three manufacturers, Russian and Spanish. Full scale plans are included for the I-16 Types 5 and 10, but also for the special Ispanskii hybrid version shipped to Spain and the locally built examples from Alicante. These line drawings are the culmination of nearly 30 years' dedicated work on Polikarpov aircraft, and should present the most complete, accurate and illuminating scale work regarding these machines to date. The book presents many production, development and detail facts about Polikarpov fighters in Spain which have not been published previously. The old myth of the I-16 "Type 6" is laid to rest at last, and the mysterious Ispanskii models finally revealed. A proper explanation of the Russian M-25 engine is presented along with other such technical details, making this volume a treasure-trove for variant identification and resolution.
Book Synopsis Polikarpov Fighters of the Spanish Civil War: Chatos & Moscas In Profile & Scale by : Erik Pilawskii
Download or read book Polikarpov Fighters of the Spanish Civil War: Chatos & Moscas In Profile & Scale written by Erik Pilawskii and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume no.6 of the Profile & Scale series illuminates the various Polikarpov fighters of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). More than 70 full-colour profiles document the appearance of these famous I-15s and I-16s, or Chatos and Moscas, in unstinting detail and accuracy. All-original, never previously published 1:48 scale line drawings are provided for the I-15 from all three manufacturers, Russian and Spanish. Full scale plans are included for the I-16 Types 5 and 10, but also for the special Ispanskii hybrid version shipped to Spain and the locally built examples from Alicante. The work contains more than 70 full colour profiles depicting all of the known Polikarpov examples from the photographic record. A discussion of tactical markings and technical development make this an invaluable reference for the historian and modeller alike.
Book Synopsis Polikarpov's I-16 Fighter by : Yefim Gordon
Download or read book Polikarpov's I-16 Fighter written by Yefim Gordon and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation historians often dismiss the Polyikarpov I-16 because it did not fare well against its more modern adversaries in WWII. It was often referred to in the West by the disparaging nickname of Rata, the Russian word for rat! Nikolay Polyikarpov's I-16 was nevertheless an outstanding fighter in its day--among other things, because it was the world's first monoplane fighter with a retractable undercarriage. Its capabilities were demonstrated effectively during the Spanish Civil War and it was still in front line service when the German armed forces fell on the Soviet Union in 1941. This book details every variant of this diminutive fighter, including development aircraft and unbuilt projects. An account is also given of Polyikarpov's early monoplane fighters that presaged the I-16 and of the later designs that evolved from it. Details are given of all surviving examples including the six aircraft that were restored to airworthy condition in Russia in the 1990s.
Book Synopsis Spanish Republican Aces by : Rafael A López Permuy
Download or read book Spanish Republican Aces written by Rafael A López Permuy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Spanish Civil War, most young fighter pilot officers joined the rebels, while the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals remained loyal to the government. Mostly flying the obsolete Nieuport Ni.52s these loyalists were soon outpaced by the more modern Fiat CR.32s and Heinkel He 51s. However, at this early stage of the war, there were several Republican airmen who became aces and famous in the process, despite the small numbers of enemy aircraft shot down. Widely speaking, the Republican military aviation did not keep an exhaustive record of individual shooting claims. However, sufficient documentation exists to make a reasonable assumption as to which pilots fall into the ace category. This volume details the exploits of those pilots, complementing previous works in the Osprey Aircraft of the Aces series on Nationalist CR.32 Aces and Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-152 Aces.
Book Synopsis Polikarpov's Biplane Fighters by : Yefim Gordon
Download or read book Polikarpov's Biplane Fighters written by Yefim Gordon and published by Ian Allan Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Polikarpov design bureau is perhaps best known for the I-16 fighter, the world's first monoplane fighter to have a retractable undercarriage. This aircraft is covered in Volume 3 of the Red Star series. This book explores the development of Polikarpov's fighting biplanes from the 2I-N1 to his first aircraft to see production; to the I-3 and the I-5 created while the designer was in prison. This design paved the way for the I-15 which earned fame as the Chato during the Spanish Civil War and also saw action against the Japanese, and the I-15bis which owed its existence mainly to Soviet Air Force's prejudice against gull wings; and the famous I-153 Chaika, a gull-wing biplane with retractable-landing gear. Experimental versions of this aricraftg are also included in the book. A detailed account of the combat role of these aircraft is given as are structural descriptions. The book also includes details of the ill-starred I-190 which was to have superceded the Chaika and of privately owned I-15bis and I-153s which have been restored to airworthy condition.
Book Synopsis Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces by : Mikhail Maslov
Download or read book Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-153 Aces written by Mikhail Maslov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The I-15, I-16 and I-153 fighters were the world's first mass-produced fighters. Some 17,000 Polikarpovs had been manufactured by the time production ceased in 1941. They served with the Republicans in the Spain, the Chinese against Japan in 1937–38, and the Soviets against both Japan in the Nomonhan Incident and Finland during the Winter War. By 1941, more than 20 Soviet pilots had made ace in Polikarpovs, and many more attained that status during the first months of the German invasion. Though thoroughly outclassed, the Polikarpov was the backbone of the Soviet air force during the early months of the war in the east, and continued to serve, as training aircraft and as frontline fighters, some right through to 1945.
Download or read book Some Still Live written by F. G. Tinker and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank G. Tinker Jr was a freelance US pilot who signed up with the Republican forces in Spain because he didn't like Mussolini. He was also attracted by the prospect of adventure and a generous pay cheque. Once over in Spain he took on the bombers and fighter pilots lent to the Fascist rebels by Hitler and Mussolini, who used the Spanish Civil War as a practice ground for the mass bombing of civilian populations. Tinker chalked up the largest number of acknowledged kills with a total of 8 Junkers, Fiats and Messerschmitts. When he returned to the US he was unable to rejoin the Armed Forces and, depressed by Franco's victory, he was found in a hotel room in June 1939 with an empty bottle of whisky and a bullet in his head. This is his account of his experiences in Spain.
Book Synopsis Spanish Republican Aces by : Rafael A Permuy López
Download or read book Spanish Republican Aces written by Rafael A Permuy López and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the civil war, most young fighter officers joined the rebels (Nationalists). It was the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals who remained loyal to the government. The obsolete Nieuport Ni.52s and the three rare Hawker Furies were soon outpaced by the opposing more modern Fiat CR.32s and Heinkel He 51s. However, at this early stage of the war, there were several Republican airmen who became aces and famous in the process, despite the small numbers of enemy aircraft shot down. Subsequently, a relative handful ex-French Dewoitine D.372 and Loire Nieuport 46 fighters flown by foreign mercenaries and Spanish pilots managed to turn the aerial balance in favour of the Republicans. With the arrival of the Soviet Polikarpov I-15 Chato and I-16 Mosca fighters, the Republicans consolidated this superiority, but most of the fighter pilots flying these modern types were Soviet. Some Spaniards started to fly Chatos from February 1937 with the establishment of the first two Spanish I-15 escuadrillas, commanded by capitanes García Lacalle and Alonso Santamaría respectively. They made their debut in the battles of the Jarama and Guadalajara. In the north, by the spring and summer of 1937 most Chato pilots were now Spanish. During the battle of Brunete, in July 1937, the first pilots trained in the USSR to fly the fast I-16 Mosca monoplanes arrived in Spain, and they quickly began to take a toll of enemy aircraft. Widely speaking, the Republican military aviation did not keep an exhaustive record of individual shooting claims. However, sufficient documentation exists to make a reasonable assumption as to which pilots fall into the ace category. This volume details the exploits of those pilots, complimenting previous works in the Osprey Aircraft of the Aces series on Nationalist CR.32 Aces and Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and I-152 Aces.
Book Synopsis Spanish Fighters by : Neil MacMaster
Download or read book Spanish Fighters written by Neil MacMaster and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Air War Over Spain by : Rafael A. Permuy López
Download or read book Air War Over Spain written by Rafael A. Permuy López and published by Crecy Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The air campaigns fought during the Spanish Civil War prompted technical and tactical developments for all parties - from the actual deployment of air power through to communications. This work examines the opposing air forces in the Spanish Civil War as well the intervention of the German, Italian and Soviet air forces in their respective guises.
Book Synopsis Five Down, No Glory by : Richard Kenneth Smith
Download or read book Five Down, No Glory written by Richard Kenneth Smith and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth biography of the top American ace under contract with Spain during the Spanish Civil War that recounts his rise from a teen enlisted seaman to a top fighter pilot and published author who socialized with Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn.
Book Synopsis Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War by : Alfredo Logoluso
Download or read book Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War written by Alfredo Logoluso and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CR.32 Falco was a handsome and highly manoeuvrable biplane fighter. During General Franco's fight with the Republicans for the control of Spain from 1936 – 39, no fewer than 477 CR.32s were involved, with an astounding 709 confirmed aerial victories, and an additional 320 kills claimed, for just 62 losses. As these statistics reveal, the CR.32 was the unrivalled master of the skies over Spain. By the war's end, the five leading aces of the conflict were all Spanish CR.32 pilots. Their exploits, and those of the other leading CR.32 aces, are examined for the first time in English in this exciting volume.
Book Synopsis Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by : Gerald Howson
Download or read book Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 written by Gerald Howson and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- A comprehensive encyclopedia of all the aircraft that served both the Nationalist rebels and the Republican government-- Contains detailed information about clandestine importation of aircraft by both sidesFor the first time, all the astonishingly varied types of aircraft used in the war are described in a single volume. Containing sections on Spanish aviation before the war, the civil war itself, and the opposing air forces, Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War, 193639 fills the gap on the bookshelves of everyone interested in the history of military aviation.
Book Synopsis A New International History of the Spanish Civil War by : Michael Alpert
Download or read book A New International History of the Spanish Civil War written by Michael Alpert and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-06-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...a lucid and scholarly account of an important and immensely complex subject...Dr. Alpert's command of a broad range of archival material, printed documents and secondary works in six languages is extremely impressive.' - P. Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science It is now twenty years since a study was dedicated to the international aspects of the Spanish Civil War and this new synthesis covering the whole of the era and setting it against major events of the late 1930s is well overdue. Michael Alpert takes full advantage of newly accessible archival sources to disentangle the intricacies of this complex issue.
Download or read book I-16 Rata written by Oleg Pototskiy and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to a remarkable fighter aircraft, that which had a great influence on both the pre-war development of Soviet aircraft, and the military developments that occurred in the first few months of the war between Germany and the USSR.
Book Synopsis Spanish Civil War Air Forces by : Christopher Shores
Download or read book Spanish Civil War Air Forces written by Christopher Shores and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1977-07-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the combat history of the air forces that fought in the Spanish Civil War. Major aircraft types are all covered, and their missions, including major operations at Brunete, Belchite and the Ebro, are all detailed. Aircraft markings and aircrew uniforms are shown in full colour illustrations.
Book Synopsis The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War by : Alexander Clifford
Download or read book The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War written by Alexander Clifford and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Spanish Republic lose the Spanish Civil War – and could the Republic have won? These are the key questions Alexander Clifford addresses in this in-depth study of the People’s Army and the critical battles of Brunete, Belchite and Teruel. These battles represented the Republic’s best chance of military success, but after bitter fighting its forces were beaten back. From then on the Republic, facing the superior army of Franco and the Nationalists, aided by Germany and Italy, faced inevitable defeat. This tightly focused and perceptive account of the military history of the Republic and its army is fascinating reading. As well as providing a broad overview of the strategy and tactics of the People’s Army and its Nationalist opponents, Alexander Clifford quotes vivid eyewitness testimony to give the reader a direct insight into the experience of the front-line soldiers on both sides during these three critical battles. Their recollections reveal to the reader what it was like to fight in the scorching heat of the plains around Brunete, in the shattered streets of Belchite – still ruined to this day – and in the frozen hills of Teruel.
