German Seaplane Fighters of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Seaplanes (Great War Aviation Centennial Series)

Jack Herris

ISBN 10: 1935881094 / ISBN 13: 9781935881094

Edité par Aeronaut Books, 2012

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Synopsis :

This book describes and illustrates the development of German Navy seaplane fighters in WWI with text, 223 rare, contemporary photos, nine color photos, 27 color profiles, five evocative paintings, and tables of information including production quantities and serial numbers of aircraft and technical specifications. The origins and evolution of each subclass of naval fighter, including single-seat floatplanes, single-seat flying boats, two-seat biplanes, and two-seat monoplanes are discussed in chapters for each class. German naval fighter production and procurement strategies are discussed in the context of the German strategic situation. In addition, the book includes 1/48 scale drawings of eight aircraft types (the Brandenburg KDW, W16, W19, W25, W33, and W34 and the Rumpler 6B1 and 6B2) in its 150 pages. It is of interest to aviation historians, enthusiasts, and modelers.

À propos de l'auteur: Jack Herris has a long history with aviation. His parents started dating while car-pooling together to North American Aviation during WW2. Jack’s father built P-51s, including parts for the first P-51 Mustang ever built, and his mother built B-25s. In 1971 Jack graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He then served as a Naval Aviator, flying P-3B Orion aircraft with VP-46. After leaving the Navy he worked in the Laser Fusion Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then worked in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. He holds CFI, CFI-I, CFI-ME, ATP, and Learjet type ratings. Jack is a long-time member of the League of WWI Aviation Historians, and before that the Cross & Cockade Society, and has written more than a dozen articles on WWI aircraft published in the quarterly journal Over the Front and has edited several issues of that journal. He brings insight into these aircraft both from his engineering and military pilot experience. In 1992 he founded Flying Machines Press to publish aviation history books and after publishing a number of titles, sold Flying Machines Press in 2000. He became a repeat offender by starting Aeronaut Books, which published its first two new aviation books in 2010. For more information, see the website at www.aeronautbooks.com. Jack writes monthly articles on WWI airplanes for Model Aircraft magazine published in the UK, and has written the following books on WWI aircraft: SPAD Two-Seat Fighters of World War I Aircraft of WWI: 1914–1918 Development of German Warplanes in WWI German Seaplane Fighters of WWI Nachtflugzeug! German N-Types of WWI German Armored Warplanes of WWI Pfalz Aircraft of World War I Gotha Aircraft of World War I Germany’s Triplane Craze Germany’s Fighter Competitions of 1918

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : German Seaplane Fighters of WWI: A ...
Éditeur : Aeronaut Books
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Paperback
Illustrateur : Weaver, Aaron; Anderson, Steve; Pearson, Bob; Digmayer, Martin; Owers, Colin
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket