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60 THE LUFTWAFFE IN WWII: SECRET WEAPONS, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS, JET AIRCRAFT, ROCKETS & MISSILES Me 262 A-1a David Myhra. Featured is the Me 262A-1a, the standard fighter variant of this famed WWII aircraft. Size: 11"x8.5" • 400 bw photos • 216pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1939-6 • hard • $39.95 Me 262: Versions A-1a Jabo through A-5a David Myhra. Featured are the Me 262 “A" series types from the A-1a jabo through the A-5 and in- cluding bomber, recon, night-fighter and other variants. Size: 11"x8.5" • 400 bw photos • 216pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2058-0 • hard • $39.95 Messerschmitt Me 262 and Its Variants Manfred Griehl. This book is a concise history of the world’s first operational jet fighter in World War II. This legendary Luftwaffe aircraft is shown in photos, line schemes, and color profiles. Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 color/bw photos • 50pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4048-2 • soft • $14.99 Messerschmitt Me 262: Arrow to the Future Walter J. Boyne. Even by today’s engi- neering standards, magnificent is the only word to describe the effort to bring the plane’s jet engines, which eclipsed the performance of all contemporary aircraft, from the laboratory to production in an amazingly short time. Includes operational photos from WW II, cockpit views, and interior/exterior shots of the restoredMe 262. Size: 8"x10" • 100 color/bw photos • 192pp. ISBN: 0-88740-665-3 • soft • $19.95 Me 262: TheWorld’s First Turbo-Jet Fighter Vol. 1 Heinrich Hecht. Concise history of the famedWWII-era Lufwaffe jet fighter including its technical devel- opment and operational use. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 0-88740-234-8 • soft • $9.95 Me 262: The World’s First Tur- bo-Jet Fighter Vol. 2 Manfred Griehl. Companion volume on the famed Luft- waffe Me 262 jet fighter. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 0-88740-410-3 • soft • $9.95 Messerschmitt Me 262 Manfred Griehl. De- tailed one-volume short history of the legendary WWII-era Lufwaffe jet fighter. Size: 8.5"x11" • 80 color/bw photos • 52pp. ISBN: 0-88740-820-6 • soft • $14.95 Natter & other German Rocket Jet Projects Short history of the unusual WWII-era Luftwaffe manned rocket powered interceptor aircraft. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 0-88740-682-3 • soft • $9.95 Sänger: Germany’s Orbital Rocket Bomber in WWII David Myhra. Sänger’s proposed manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. The world’s first intercontinental bomber project, the Sänger orbital bomber’s total flight time was expected to be no more than two hours. Size: 8.5"x11" • 575 color/bw photos • 176pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1549-8 • hard • $39.95 Vertical Takeoff Fighter Aircraft of the Third Reich Miranda/Mercado. Rare, illus- trated look at the operational, prototype, and planned vertical take-off vehicles during the Third Reich period. Size: 8.5"x11" • 90 bw photos • 40pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1435-1 • soft • $14.95 V1: The Flying Bomb Joachim En- gelmann. Concise history of the noto- rious WWII-era German flying bomb including its technical and operational developments. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos/drawings • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-408-5•soft•$14.99 The V1 and Its Soviet Successors Wilfried Kopenhagen. Follow-up volume on the German V-1 Buzz Bomb and the post-war experiments by the U.S. and USSR. Size: 8.5"x11" • 80 bw photos/drawings • 48pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1274-X • soft • $9.95 V2: Dawn of the Rocket Age Joa- chim Engelmann. Concise history of the WWII-era German ballistic missile, its development and operational use. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos/drawings • 48pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-233-3•soft •$14.99 Germany’s V-2 Rocket Gregory P. Kennedy. Although dwarfed by today’s giant rockets, the V-2 represented a quantum leap beyond anything previously built. During the last six months of the war in Europe, Germany launched thousands of these missiles against the Allies. This book traces the origins and development of the V-2, from groups of individual experimenters in the 1930s to its use as a weapon system. Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 bw photos • 136pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2452-7 • hard • $39.95 German Guided Missiles Heinz J. Nowarra. Rare look at WWII-era German air-to-air, surface-to-air, and air-to-ground guided missiles. Size: 11"x8.5" • 80 bw photos/drawings • 48pp. ISBN: 0-88740-475-8 • soft • $9.95 Messerschmitt Me 163 “Komet” Vol. 1 Mano Ziegler. The world’s first operational rocket fighter in its WWII use by the Luftwaffe. Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 0-88740-232-1 • soft • $9.95 Messerschmitt Me 163 “Komet” Vol. 2 M. Emmerling. Follow-up volume on the infamous WWII-era German rocket fighter. Size: 11”x8.5” • 80 bw photos • 48pp. ISBN: 0-88740-403-0 • soft • $9.95 Flying Wings of the Horten Broth- ers H.P. Dabrowski. Follow-up volume covering the Horten brothers’ flying wing concepts. Size: 11"x8.5" • 70 bw photos • 64pp. ISBN: 0-88740-886-9 • soft • $14.95 The Horten Ho 9/Ho 229 DavidMyhra. Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight testing of the twin turbojet powered all-wing prototype Horten Ho 9 fighter/interceptor and its serial production prototype the Horten Ho 229V3. Vol. 1: Retrospective Word for word inter- views make up this volume and often the details given by one former worker differs from another leading to more questions than answers. Size: 8.5"x11" • 250 bw photos/plans • 224pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1666-4 • hard • $49.95 Vol. 2: Technical History This is the tech- nical companion volume to the Horten Ho IX Retrospective and documents how these flying machines were constructed, shown largely in highly detailed photos. Included are construction of the all-wing’s wood main spar, wood wing ribs, plywood wing covering, and internal fuel tanks, control surfaces, drag rudders, nose wheel, etc. Size: 8.5"x11" • 600 bw photos • 256pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1667-2 • hard • $59.95 Junkers Ju 287: The World’s First Swept- Wing Jet Aircraft Horst Lommel. In the summer of 1944, as WWII drew to a close, an unusual airplane took to the skies over Leipzig-Brandis on its maiden flight. It was the prototype version of the Ju 287 V1, a four-engine jet bomber. With its forward swept wings, the design was a critical milestone in the annals of aviation technology and made the Ju 287 the first swept-wing design in the world. Size: 8.5"x11" • 300 bw photos • 224pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2059-9 • hard • $49.95 Messerschmitt Me 262: Design Concept, Prototypes, V Series, Flight Tests David Myhra. Featured in this volume are the early Me 262 concept and wind tunnel designs. This includes all of the Me 262 “Versuch," or research design prototypes, and the preproduction “Serein," or S-type flight test machines. Size: 11"x8.5" • 400 photos • 248pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1888-8 • hard • $39.95