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Author : Rüdiger Kosin
Publisher : Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of Amer
ISBN 13 : 9780933852792
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (527 download)
Download or read book The German Fighter Since 1915 written by Rüdiger Kosin and published by Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of Amer. This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johan Ryheul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781552230
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (522 download)
Download or read book KEK's and Fokkerstaffels written by Johan Ryheul and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first time that the history of the German Kampfeinsitzer Kommandos have been gathered in a book. This book not only presents the history of these units and their aces, it also acts as a battlefield guide and describes in exhaustive detail the lives of these early fighter pilots, their dogfights and encounters with death.
Author : Alec Brew
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Boulton Paul Aircraft Since 1915 written by Alec Brew and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Norwich firm of Boulton & Paul were brought into aircraft construction in 1915, and quickly became one of the great innovators. They pioneered metal construction and built the frame of the largest aircraft ever built in Britain, the R.101 airship. The Overstrand, the last of their superlative medium bombers, was the first aircraft in the world to feature a power-operated gun turret, and after their move to Wolverhampton in 1936 and change of name to Boulton Paul Aircraft their gun turrets became a vital component of the war effort, not least in their own Defiant, which fought in the Battle of Britain and was the most successful night fighter in the dark nights of the Blitz. Their post-war Balliol trainer was the World's first single-engine turboprop and their last production aircraft, because the technology of their gun turrets was translated into their world lead as manufacturers of power operated control units, and then fly-by-wire. Becoming part of the Dowty Group and later GE Aviation, their advanced aerospace product line is now invested in the firm of Moog, still in Wolverhampton, still innovating.
Author : Capt. Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Red Battle Flyer written by Capt. Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the thrilling experiences of one of World War I's most renowned fighter pilots with "The Red Battle-Flyer" by Manfred von Richthofen. Written in 1917 while he was recovering from a wound, this book offers a firsthand account of von Richthofen's daring aerial battles and military exploits. Known as the "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen recounts his real-life adventures in the skies, capturing the intensity and danger of combat. This memoir provides a unique perspective on aerial warfare, filled with vivid descriptions and personal insights from a celebrated ace pilot who achieved significant victories against Allied forces. Curious about the real-life experiences behind the legend of the Red Baron? How does von Richthofen's account shed light on the realities of aerial combat during WWI? Discover the authentic and riveting stories of a legendary pilot in "The Red Battle-Flyer." Each chapter immerses you in the high-stakes world of early aviation warfare. Ready to dive into the exciting and real-life tales of aerial combat? Read "The Red Battle-Flyer" and experience the world through the eyes of a pioneering fighter pilot. Don’t miss out on this fascinating memoir. Purchase "The Red Battle-Flyer" today and relive the adventures of the Red Baron.
Author : Frantz Immelmann
Publisher : Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN 13 : 1935149768
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Immelmann written by Frantz Immelmann and published by Casemate / Greenhill. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of Germany’s pioneers in aerial combat: “a great read” (Internet Modeler). Max Immelmann was born in Dresden, the son of a container factory owner. When World War I started, Immelmann was recalled to active service, transferred to the Luftstreitkäfte, and sent for pilot training in November 1914. He was on his way to becoming a legendary flying ace. Initially stationed in northern France as a reconnaissance aviator, he was shot down by a French pilot but managed to land safely behind German lines. He was decorated with the Iron Cross, Second Class for preserving his aircraft. Later in 1915, he became one of the first German fighter pilots, quickly building an impressive score of victories as he became known as The Eagle of Lille, Der Adler von Lille. Known for the aerial combat maneuver that bears his name; for the use of a machine gun synchronized to fire forward through the propeller arc; and for his association with the Fokker Eindecker, Germany’s first fighter aircraft, Immelmann was the first pilot to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany’s highest military honor—which became colloquially known as the “Blue Max” in the German Air Service. Along with Oswald Boelcke and other pilots, Immelmann was one of the main instigators of the Fokker Scourge, which inflicted heavy losses upon British and French aircrews during 1915. He was credited with fifteen victories—the final one coming on March 30, 1916. This Casemate edition of Max Immelmann’s biography does not change a word from the original 1930 edition, but for the first time, reworks the original type and page layout to provide a beautiful and highly readable new treatment to this classic of aviation literature.
Author : Norman L. R. Franks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902304922
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Sharks Among Minnows written by Norman L. R. Franks and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various ingenious schemes on the part of both sides to gain superiority in the air, most of which had limited success, were suddenly over-shadowed by the arrival at the front in the summer of 1915 of the Fokker Eindecker, which had a synchronized machine gun firing through the whirling blades of the propeller. Spread amongst German two-seater reconnaissance units in ones and twos, those flying these first single-seater fighting aeroplanes, if they were successful, soon became famous ond the first aces of this new form of aerial warfare. Names such as Boelcke, Immelmann, Wintgens, Parschau, Mulzer, Hohndorf, Frankl and von Althaus quickly became heroes to the German public and the first winners of the coveted Pour ie Merite - the famed Blue max.
Author : Peter Kilduff
Publisher : David & Charles
ISBN 13 : 071533381X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Red Baron: The Life and Death of an Ace written by Peter Kilduff and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic bestselling autobiography of the most successful fighter pilot of the First World War. This is the memoir of the undisputed top gun of World War I’s aerial war, Captain Manfred von Richthofen, who shot down 80 Allied aircraft. Originally published in German in late 1917 as Der Rote Kampfflieger (The Red Air Fighter), it was a runaway bestseller. The English language edition followed in 1918 without any official deal with the German publishers as it was argued that Richthofen’s accounts of combat against the Allied air force aircraft provided valuable intellilgence to use against the enemy. Originally a cavalryman, Manfred transferred to the Imperial German Army Air Service in May 1915 and quickly distinguished himself as a fighter pilot. During 1917 he became leader of Jagdgeschwader 1. It was better known as the “Flying Circus” because of its aircraft’s bright colors and because the squadron moved like a traveling circus, from place to place as a self-contained unit so that it appeared wherever the fighting was the thickest. It would be operating at Verdun one week only to be north of Arras the next. A few days later, it would be down on the Somme. Richthofen was a brilliant tactician, although his modus operandi was as simple as it was deadly. Typically, he would dive from above to attack with the advantage of the sun behind him (the victim would not see him coming, blinded by glare), with other pilots of his flying circus covering his rear and flanks. By 1918, he was regarded as a national hero in Germany and held the country’s highest honor, the “Blue Max.” Richthofen was well-known in the Allied countries and a respected advisor of military aviators. Newly illustrated with twenty-one contemporary images. Includes many of the Red Baron’s eighty combat reports, contemporary interviews with a selection of his surviving victims, and an extra chapter on the death in combat of von Richthofen.
Author : Patrick G. Eriksson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671239
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Alarmstart: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Second World War written by Patrick G. Eriksson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, and diary and flying log book extracts, with photographs from the veterans themselves, many never previously published.
Author : James S. Corum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Luftwaffe written by James S. Corum and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the resurrection of Germany's air force during the period, providing an account of the evolution of German military aviation theory, doctrine, war games, and operations between the two world wars. Draws on archival material to reveal debates with the General Staff about the future role of airpower and the problems of aligning aviation technology with air doctrine. Also examines the early WWII period and the Luftwaffe's effectiveness in Poland and France. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075516
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book International Warbirds written by John C. Fredriksen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In depth descriptions and photographs of the aircraft of 21 nations presented with a unique human dimension that goes behind the machines to the people involved. Invaluable for specialists, accessible to enthusiasts, International Warbirds: An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914–2000 puts the most legendary fighter aircraft of the 20th century developed outside the United States on vivid display. It offers 336 illustrated "biographies" of the most significant warplanes used in squadron service from World War I to the Balkan conflict, including numerous models from Great Britain, France, Russia, and Japan, as well as notable machines from Israel, Canada, China, India, Brazil, and other nations. Entries span the history and scope of military aircraft from bombers and fighters to transports, trainers, reconnaissance craft, sea planes, and helicopters, with each capsule history combining nuts-and-bolts technical data with the story of that model's evolution and use. Together, these portraits offer an exciting, well-researched tribute to visionary designers and builders as well as courageous pilots and crews across the globe, and tell a vivid tale of how air power became such a decisive factor in modern warfare.
Author : Greg VanWyngarden
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841769974
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (699 download)
Download or read book Early German Aces of World War I written by Greg VanWyngarden and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the "top picks for specialized military holdings" - California Bookwatch The Fokker Eindecker (monoplane) can truly be said to have begun the age of fighter aviation. With the development of its revolutionary synchronised system that enabled the machine gun to fire through the propellor, Fokker E I pilots caused consternation in the Allied air services as they began to reap a harvest of victims in the summer of 1915. While the first victory with a Fokker E-type is now believed to have been earned by Kurt Wintgens on 1 July 1915, it was the exploits of Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke that made the machine legendary. These men, along with others such as Parschau and Hohndorf, received the adulation of the German public along with such honors as the first awards of the coveted Blue Max. They created the tactics and principles of German fighter aviation as they did so, developing doctrine that is still relevant to today's fighter pilots. However, by the end of 1916, the glory days of the lone hunter and his Fokker Eindecker were over. They were replaced by a succeeding generation of biplane fighters which would be flown in new formations - the Jagdstaffeln or 'hunting groups'. The story of these first Fokker and Halberstadt biplane fighters and their pilots concludes this volume. RELATED TITLES German Air Force 1914-1918 (Elite) Fokker Dr 1 Aces of World War I (Aicraft of the Aces) American Aces of World War I (Aircraft of the Aces)
Author : James S. Corum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Roots of Blitzkrieg written by James S. Corum and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Germany's defeat in World War I, the Germans signed the Versailles Treaty, theoretically agreeing to limit their war powers. The Allies envisioned the future German army as a lightly armed border guard and international security force. The Germans had other plans.
Author : Greg Baughen
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the French Air Force written by Greg Baughen and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 May 1940, the French possessed one of the largest air forces in the world. On paper, it was nearly as strong as the RAF. Six weeks later, France had been defeated. For a struggling French Army desperately looking for air support, the skies seemed empty of friendly planes. In the decades that followed, the debate raged. Were there unused stockpiles of planes? Were French aircraft really so inferior? Baughen examines the myths that surround the French defeat. He explains how at the end of the First World War, the French had possessed the most effective air force in the world, only for the lessons learned to be forgotten. Instead, air policy was guided by radical theories that predicted air power alone would decide future wars. Baughen traces some of the problems back to the very earliest days of French aviation. He describes the mistakes and bad luck that dogged the French efforts to modernise their air force in the twenties and thirties. He examines how decisions made just months before the German attack further weakened the air force. Yet defeat was not inevitable. If better use had been made of the planes that were available, the result might have been different.
Author : John Killen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819482
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Luftwaffe: A History written by John Killen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive history of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany’s air force. In his thoroughly researched study, John Killen examines German air power between 1914 and 1945, from the early days of flying when Immelmann, Boelke, Richtofen, and other First World War aces fought and died to give Germany air supremacy, to the nightmare existence of the Luftwaffe as the Third Reich plunged headlong to destruction. Here are the aircraft: the frail biplanes and triplanes of the Kaiser’s war; the great Lufthansa aircraft and airships of the turbulent Thirties; the monoplanes designed to help Hitler in his conquest of Europe. Here are the generals who forged the air weapon of the Luftwaffe: the swaggering Goering, the playboy Udet, the ebullient Kesselring, and the scapegoat Jeschonnek. Here, too, are the pilots who tried to keep faith with their Fatherland despite overwhelming odds: Adolf Galland, Werner Molders, Joachim Marseille, and Hanna Reitsch. Not least are the actions fought by the Luftwaffe from the Spanish Civil War to the Battle of Britain, through the bloody struggle for Crete, and the siege of Stalingrad to the fearful twilight over Berlin. “A good, readable account of the rise and fall of the Luftwaffe that covers all of the main fronts on which it fought, and examines the reasons for the eventual failure as well as providing a readable narrative.” —History of War
Author : Werner Held
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764325274
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (252 download)
Download or read book German Fighter Ace Walter Nowotny written by Werner Held and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Luftwaffe fighter pilot Walter Nowotny - in photographs, documents, and commentary. Nowotny was highly decorated for his 258 aerial victories, but was well known, above all, for his deployment and command of the Messerschmitt Me 262 Erprobungskommando. Later his "Kommando Nowotny" was the first combat operational jet fighter unit in history (Nowotny won three spectacular air victories with the Me 262). Factual and neutral, this illustrated book explores his short life, and is a highly interesting contribution to World War II aviation history.
Author : Heinz Knoke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book I Flew for the Führer written by Heinz Knoke and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark C. Wilkins
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612006205
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book German Fighter Aircraft in World War I written by Mark C. Wilkins and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated volume explores German military aviation during WWI through archival photographs and authentically detailed replicas. Fighter aircraft were developed during World War I at an unprecedented rate, as nascent air forces sought to achieve and maintain air supremacy. German manufacturers innovated at top speed, while constantly scrutinizing the development of new enemy aircraft. The Germans also utilized the concept of modular engineering, which allowed them to disassembled or reassembled their aircraft quickly in the field. The pinnacle of their aeronautical innovations was the iconic Fokker D VII—the only aircraft specifically mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles, which forbade Germany from building it after the war. German Fighter Aircraft in World War I explores how German fighter aircraft were developed during the war, the advancements and trials that made the Fokker D VII possible, and the different makes and types of aircraft. Using unpublished images including photographs of surviving aircraft, archive images, and models and replicas, this volume shows details of aircraft that were kept top secret during the war. Extensively illustrated with 140 photos and ten color profiles, this is will be essential reading for all WWI aviation enthusiasts and modelers.
