The Secret Years: Flight Testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945
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Название: The Secret Years: Flight Testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945
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Автор: Tim Mason
Год выпуска: 1998
Формат: PDF
Размер: 141,8 МБ
ISBN: 378208104241
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ The Secret Years: Flight Testing at Boscombe Down 1939-1945 БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: The highly classified work of the A&AEE (Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment) at Boscombe Down included the intense, ever-expanding business of testing aircraft and their varied armaments in WWII.Over 1,500 British, American, and German aircraft of the RAF, Fleet Air Arm, Army--and the Luftwaffe--were tested at Boscombe Down.
Aircraft as diverse as the Aerovan, Barracuda, Pitcairn PA39, and Nomad were put though their paces together with, amongst others the Skymaster, Vengeance, Lightning, Hudson, and Welkin plus the more well-known Wellington, Mosquito, Halifax, Ju88, Fw190, and Spitfire. Using 500 photographs, The Secret Years explores unusual variants of standard service aircraft types, machines which remained purely experimental, and the trials with their guns, bombs, rockets, and equipment.