Tony Holmes

Plane Spotter's Guide (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A compact guide to 70 of the most iconic aircraft to have shaped warfare over the last 100 years.

Aviation has revolutionised warfare over the last 100 years, and this new pocket guide gives the reader the essential details of 70 iconic aircraft, including the Sopwith Camel, the Spitfire, the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-51 Mustang and the F-4 Phantom.

Drawing on Osprey's comprehensive aviation archive, Plane Spotter's Guide uses detailed profile artwork to illustrate and aid recognition, as well as specification boxes to provide all the technical details.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780967028
• Artikelnr.: 44626814

Autorenporträt

Having initially worked for Osprey as an author in the 1980s, Tony Holmes became the company's aviation editor in 1989 after he moved to England from Western Australia. Responsible for devising the Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft, Aviation Elite Units, Duel and X-Planes series, Tony has also written more than 30 books for Osprey over the past 35 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Sopwith Pup Albatros D III Nieuport 17 SPAD VII Sopwith Camel RAF SE 5/5a Fokker Dr I Fokker D VII Polikarpov 1
16 Boeing B
17 Flying Fortress Bristol Blenheim Consolidated PBY Catalina Messerschmitt Bf 109 Gloster Gladiator Hawker Hurricane Junkers Ju 87 Supermarine Spitfire Short Sunderland Messerschmitt Bf 110 Fiat CR.42 Falco Junkers Ju 88 Mitsubishi A6M Zero
sen Curtiss P
40 Warhawk North American B
25 Mitchell Grumman F4F Wildcat Douglas SBD Dauntless Bristol Beaufighter de Havilland Mosquito Ilyushin Il
2 Shturmovik Nakajima Ki
43 Hayabusa Martin B
26 Marauder Lockheed P
38 Lightning Focke
Wulf Fw 190 Hawker Typhoon Consolidated B
24 Liberator Republic P
47 Thunderbolt Kawasaki Ki
61 Hien Macchi C.202 Folgore North American P
51 Mustang Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger Vought F4U Corsair Avro Lancaster Lavochkin La
5/7 Boeing B
29 Superfortress Grumman F6F Hellcat Messerschmitt Me 262 Yakovlev Yak
3 Mikoyan MiG
15 North American F
86 Sabre Grumman F9F Panther Martin B
57 Canberra North American F
100 Super Sabre Boeing B
52 Stratofortress Douglas A
4 Skyhawk Handley Page Victor Avro Vulcan Vought F
8 Crusader Republic F
105 Thunderchief Mikoyan MiG
21 McDonnell Douglas F
4 Phantom II Dassault Mirage III Lockheed SR
71 Grumman F
14 Tomcat McDonnell Douglas F
15 Eagle Strike Eagle General Dynamics F
16 Fighting Falcon McDonnell Douglas F/A
18 Hornet Lockheed F
117 Nighthawk McDonnell Douglas AV
8B Harrier II Rockwell B
1B Lancer