Ww2 picktorial book of all airplanes full#

Not all of the illustrations are in color, many being in shades of green, grey and black. Along with the centerfold-type profiles, there are dozens of other illustrations of different versions of the aircraft, various parts/systems of each, and 3-D drawings of entire aircraft and all their component parts.

Ww2 picktorial book of all airplanes full#

Each volume has several pull-out profiles in full color which are supposed to be suitable for framing but I don't know why you'd want to remove them from the book. Simply put, the profiles, cutaway views of engines, weapons and various other structures, and the 3-D drawings are excellent and were pretty much the main reason I purchased the book in the first place. However, the real reason you would buy this book (or any of the individual volumes) is the artwork by Rikyu Watanabe.

Overall, the narrative for most of the books is pretty dry and filled with lots of technical details such as engine performance, structural enhancements, weapons upgrades and flight characteristics. There is also some of the combat history of each plane, although this varies in length and detail from book to book. The Luftwaffe, or German Air Force, had long been a central part of Germany’s plans for the future. The planes covered are the P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, F4U Corsair, F6F Hellcat, Supermarine Spitfire, de Havilland Mosquito, Avro Lancaster, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Focke Wulf FW 190, Junkers JU-87 Stuka and Mitsubishi Zero.Įach book covers the development and production of the individual aircraft, along with the myriad modifications/enhancements each one went through during its lifetime. German designers drew upon decades of manufacturing and engineering excellence when designing weapons, and their fighter planes were no exception. Author Dana Bell spent two years researching this book, and his efforts have resulted in an entirely new technical history of the World War II Corsair. Covering both the indigenous designs employed. This book is actually 12 books in 1, each covering a different aircraft: 5 American planes, 3 British, 3 German and 1 Japanese. This book describes and illustrates all the fighter aircraft used by the Hungarian armed forces during WW2.