Favorite Aircraft History Books?

[Kurfürst]

Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen

Then you have been reading the wrong books. The numerous design faults of the Bismarck are discussed in detail in "Axis and Neutral Battleships of World War Two" by naval architects William Garzke&Robert Dulin.

Ah! Another Bismarck hater! Nice, but too bad the statements of that book about 'design flaws' are very dubious in face of the newest research, GandD stay with the old fairy tales about the poor, outdated WW1 design, unable to understand the true concept of the ship..

[JaganP]

Getting back to the original topic, One of my favourites.

Vultee Vengeance by Peter C Smith, Smithsonian Press.

Lovely book on a rare type. Infact the ONLY book on this type. .Ample coverage of technical aspects as well as operations in all theatres. I was suitably impressed by the amount of detail on Indian Air Force Operations, which is not the case with most of the other types. I would recommend the book any day.

De Havilland Vampire by David Watson

Another great book, one of the only two on this Type I would guess. nice drawings, and great production info. Also has some good info on my area of interest - Indian Air Force Ops after 1947.

[Empiricist]

Originally Posted by JaganP

Getting back to the original topic, One of my favourites.

Vultee Vengeance by Peter C Smith, Smithsonian Press.

Lovely book on a rare type. Infact the ONLY book on this type. .Ample coverage of technical aspects as well as operations in all theatres. I was suitably impressed by the amount of detail on Indian Air Force Operations, which is not the case with most of the other types. I would recommend the book any day.

Hello,

Also for me this is one of my favourite WWII-era aircraft and of course I know am unique man with such an fascination. :-)

Would not you like to drop a line about the content of this book? Does it contain the plans of the Vengeance variants for the modellers?

Thank you very much in advance.

Best

E.