Me 262 Smith, J. Richard 9780952686729 Classic Publications First Edition Hardco
Me 262 Volume One (Classic Publications 3)\n\nEarly on the morning of 18 July 1942, a twenty seven year old test pilot took off from a rain-dampened airfield at Leipheim in southern Germany at the controls of the Messerschmitt Me 262 V3, the third prototype of what would prove to be a revolutionary yet controversial new aircraft. The pilot was to make aviation history. When the aircraft landed twelve minutes later following a trouble-free test flight, the dream of the machine's designer, Professor Willy Messerschmitt to power an aircraft by turbojet propulsion was realised for the first time. Messerschmitt was a man whom Adolf Hitler proclaimed to possess \""the skull of a genius\"".\nIn this, the first volume of their exhaustive study of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational military jet aircraft, internationally acclaimed authors, J. Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek have drawn on more than thirty years of detailed and unrivalled research;
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