Sharp Dan - Messerschmitt Me 328 Development & Politics - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: There was huge excitement when Argus engineer G nther Diedrich succeeded in building a pulsejet powerful enough to propel a car up to 100km/h in 1941 it was simple cheap and lightweight and before long Germany's premier fighter manufacturer Messerschmitt had come up with a simple cheap and lightweight airframe on which to mount it the Me 328. The new aircraft was first pitched as an interceptor then as a parasite bomber for attacks on America then as an airborne version of the infamous Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher to fire heavyweight rocket - bombs at Allied shipping. Prototypes were built and flown both as gliders and under pulsejet power and when Nazi fanatics needed an aircraft suitable for suicide attacks against high - value Allied targets their first choice was the Me 328. Yet the type never fulfilled the grandiose ambitions of those who designed built and supported it. Dan Sharp unravels a development history that was anything but straightforward to find out exactly what happened to the Luftwaffe's most enigmatic secret project aircraft. Messerschmitt Me 328 Development & Politics is based on extensive archival research of contemporary German documents and includes numerous previously unpublished period drawings as well as 50 new full colour profile artworks.
Title: Messerschmitt Me 328 Development & Politics
Author(s): Sharp Dan
Publisher: Mortons Media Group
Barcode: 9781911704201
Pages: 150 Pages
Publication Date: 7/24/2024
Category: Aircraft: General Interest