This title completes a trilogy covering the design and development of British fighters and bombers from the end of the biplane era to the present day. This new volume again emphasizes the designs that were never flown. It covers aircraft projects that were prepared from the mid-1930s onwards and that were influenced by the growing threat of another war with Germany, through to some projects which appeared after the war was over. The latter includes early jets such as the Attacker, Sea Hawk and Venom, which all flew post-war but were designed to wartime or immediate post-war requirements. Among the designs featured in this book are fixed-gun fighters, turret fighters, twin-engine cannon fighters, light, medium and heavy bombers, torpedo bombers and flying boats. As in the trilogy's first two volumes, these designs are covered with detailed descriptions and data and numerous photographs of models or artists' impressions showing how these designs would have looked. Unlike the post-war years, details of many earlier unbuilt projects have been lost, but fortunately information on a great number of these has survived, and this will form the most complete record to be published on these fascinating machines.
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Tony Buttler is outstanding,
This review is from: British Secret Projects 3: Fighters and Bombers 1935-1950 (Hardcover)
Another great book by an extremely talented and gifted writer. Bravo Mr. Buttler for giving us insight into an extremely interesting period with some of the most advanced thinking in avaition.
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This review is from: British Secret Projects 3: Fighters and Bombers 1935-1950 (Hardcover)
I very much appreciate the research efforts of the author. This book fills in many gaps in my education of WW II aviation history. Of particular interest to me was the extensive coverage of the heavy bomber developments as hinted at by the cover illustration.It was so nicely done, in fact, that there are only two very minor "nits" I can pick about this book. The first is that there seems to be no mention at all of the Lysander P.12 rear-turreted straffer, an aircraft that actually flew, though never put into production. The second point is that the author does use an extraordinary number of abbreviations for various official titles and offices. While explained each initial time, they are thereafter used as initials only, leading to a few almost obscure sentences like "..the AVM met with AWA to discuss the A&AEE report" (this is NOT an actual quote). This stems, I think, from the author's attention to detail where others might have just said something like "...it was decided that..". It merely caused this reader to have to stop momentarily to decipher the meanings. Perhaps a consolidated List of Abbreviations would have helped. All in all, I count this book among my favored references and recommend it highly to anyone interested in the subject.
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