Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Scheduled for 19 March.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arado-Flugz...words=aviation

Usual disclaimer,

Ed

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Finally :)

Volker told me about this project some time ago.
His first book in English I believe. About time!!

I hope it sells well, so we can get something on Heinkel as well.

Cheers
Stig

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Looks very interesting!

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Hello!

If you have any questions, please do ask!

Jay
Publisher

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

I'd certainly be very interested in his treatment of the Ar240, in view of the multiple errors and inconsistencies in most earlier works. (Including the article in the latest Aeroplane, which is too strongly based on the earlier Lang work with some peculiarities of its own.) It will be particularly interesting to compare his history of the type with the deeply researched version of Dr. H. Mankau.

Key features I'd be looking for are the relationship (if any) between the V7 and the A-05, the identity of the aircraft flying recce missions in 1944 (A-04?) and the design of its wing. The identity of the aircraft flown by Eric Brown? Of course, new photos would be welcome, particularly of the previously unpublished examples, but one can only dream...

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Hi Jay,

Is this a reprint of the 2007 original German version: "Arado Flugzeugwerke: 1925-1945"?

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Hey Huib,

I will have to ask the author; however, I believe it consists of fresh material and imagery. Apologies for the brief message as I have a lot on today in terms of admin and e-mails!

Jay

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

I can confirm this book contains new material as I dug out a fair amount of new material for Volker for this book at Duxford and I'm quite sure he has added new material of his own. I haven't seen the final draft so I can't say exactly what it contains of the material I found but I certainly was able to dig out some interesting and previously unseen material so I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

And here is the front cover panel in all its glory!

Jay

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Graham-you mean the Flypast article? Trouble is until now, the only work available was Lang's and whilst going through it (as thin as it is) there were contradictions. At least the Götz story set the operational testing into some kind of context. For this new book we still have to wait until next year!

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Now scheduled for 2 June from amazon in the US.

https://www.amazon.com/Arado-Flugzeu.../dp/1781556717

Ed

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Now scheduled for 30 April in the UK.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arado-Flugz...s=books&sr=1-1

Usual disclaimer,
Ed

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Hello,

Worth taking a look at:

https://www.naval-military-press.com...pment-history/

Do you sums on this one before purchasing. Click on "Delivery Info" on top of page for postage rates.

Don't know when the 20% off sale ends, but I wouldn't waste too much time, if you're interested.

Col.

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Reviews seem to be very mixed. Suggestions of 3rd rate translation and editing...

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

The translation was an issue outside of Volker's control and is far from ideal. With hindsight, Volker has said to me that he wishes he had submitted his text in his English for subsequent polishing rather than in German and have the text translated in very stilted English as it's a technical subject requiring some depth of underlying knowledge.

I can appreciate the text as it stands might be something which might put off the casual reader but the diehards should be able to extract the required information. At the price being quoted in the offer, it's surely worth the plunge, particularly for those in this country.

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Thanks Steve! That's a very helpful commentary!

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Clicking on the link in post #13 now takes you to an offer that is now -68% off the RRP (thanks Jukka!). Well worth getting if you want a small compendium of Arado types. And it is quite a small book. Some text is a little tricky, even the 'non-technical' parts, eg '... numerous Ju 52s had broken through simple defensive measures of the defenders ..' That sentence has at least two meanings so probably a good job Volker didn't give us his English version. And it would have cost Jay nothing to get the text quickly proofed and corrected. I used to do an entire Kagero monograph in a single evening...(some of the worst 'English' I've ever attempted to decipher..)

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Just to clarify, are some things missing from the English language version? I ask because of this reviewer's comment posted at Amazon U.S.: "Oddly, the E.555 flying wing bomber project
and the E.381 parasite fighter project are left out of the chapter discussing unbuilt Arado aircraft."



TIA,
Ed

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

..amounts to no more than 3-4 pages and those types get a couple of sentences (along with a horrible typo, 'Flugzeugt')

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

That's similar to 'aircrafts'. :)

Re: Arado Flugzeugwerke: Aircraft and Development History
 

Or from the verb flugzeugen to breed in flight


Ich flugzeuge
Er,Sie,Es flugzeugt
etc:)


Usually only seen in english in the negative to not breed in flight...or words to that effect.




Clint