Komet The Messerschmitt 163

Author : Dariusz Karnas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788365958761
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1 Komet written by Dariusz Karnas and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Messerschmitt Me 163 B-1 Komet. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W and color.

Author : Marek Ryś
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ISBN 13 : 9788366673571
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet written by Marek Ryś and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the German Me 163 Komet rocket fighter was created as a remedy for the mass air raids of the Allied air force on Germany, its origins date back to 1938. Alexander Lippisch then began work at the DFS factory on a tailless rocket-propelled aircraft, designated as DFS 194. At the beginnings of 1939, the project was handed over to the Messerschmitt factory and there it developed into the Me 163A. Two prototypes of this aircraft - V4 and V5 - were completed in 1941 and flown as gliders. Then the V4 received a Walter HWK R.II rocket engine with a thrust of 7.5 kN, and on October 2, 1941 H. Dittmar achieved a speed of 1003 km/h on mentioned plane. Thirteen Me 163As were built for training.

Author : Jeffrey L. Ethell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894020711
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Komet, the Messerschmitt 163 written by Jeffrey L. Ethell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herman Eugen Ziegler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853681618
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocket Fighter written by Herman Eugen Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En beretning om det første bemandede raketfly, dets konstruktør og piloterne, der gennemførte prøveflyvningerne.

Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760343985
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Hitler's Jets written by Robert F. Dorr and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting Hitler's Jets is the personal story of the American fighter pilots who defeated the German Luftwaffe in the spring and summer of 1944, only to find themselves up against Adolf Hitler's Wunderwaffen, or “wonder weapons.”

Author : Richard A. Franks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993534539
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Me 163 Komet written by Richard A. Franks and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Emmerling
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887404030
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet written by M. Emmerling and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1997-01-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II covers Japanese prototypes and the later Me 263.

Author : Hanna Reitsch
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612000576
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sky My Kingdom written by Hanna Reitsch and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of the female aviator who became Hitler’s favorite pilot. The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War II test pilot Hanna Reitsch. As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited to fly many of Germany’s latest—and increasingly desperate—designs, including the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and several larger bombers, on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting barrage balloon cables. After crashing on her fifth Me 163 flight, she was badly injured but insisted on writing her report before falling unconscious and spending five months in the hospital. Eventually, she became Adolf Hitler’s favorite pilot. Reitsch was one of only two women awarded the Iron Cross First Class during World War II, and the only woman awarded the Luftwaffe Combined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times. In the last days of the war, Reitsch was asked to fly her companion, Col. Gen. Robert Ritter von Greim, into Berlin to meet with Hitler. The city was already surrounded by Red Army troops, who had made significant progress into the downtown area when they arrived, landing on a city street and traveling to the Führerbunker. The aircraft she used was the justly famous Fieseler Storch, already well known for the exploit that rescued Mussolini, only adding to the legend of both Reitsch and that aircraft. She is said to have overheard Hitler laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She also hoped to fly out propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ six children, who had been staying in the bunker since April 22 with their parents, but neither Joseph nor Magda Goebbels would allow it. She managed to escape Berlin herself, on April 29, by flying out through heavy Russian antiaircraft fire. She was a devoted and idealistic Nazi who adored Adolf Hitler and refused to believe the reports of concentration camps and torture. Not until much later would she say that she had been “disgusted” by what she witnessed in the Third Reich. She was held for eighteen months by the American military after the war, interrogated, and subsequently released—ultimately to become a champion glider pilot, as gliders were the only craft German citizens were allowed to fly. Hers is a story that arguably stands as unique in the great drama of World War II.

Author : Jeffrey L. Ethell
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ISBN 13 : 9781853104060
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War II Fighting Jets written by Jeffrey L. Ethell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Ransom
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846039751
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Jagdgeschwader 400 written by Stephen Ransom and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jagdgeschwader 400 group was formed for the sole purpose of flying one of the world's most revolutionary aircraft - the rocket-powered Me 163. Although the Me 163 scored relatively few kills, giving it a success rate much lower than the Me 262, it still had a massive psychological impact upon the Allies, and the technology and experiences gained in the Me 163 went on to influence the jet fighters of modern times. The introduction of jet-powered aircraft demanded massive changes in training, equipment, servicing and tactics, all of which are described and examined in this essential analysis of the story of the Me 163 in frontline service with Erprobungskommando 16 and Jagdgeschwader 400.