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Germany's Fighter Competitions of 1918 By Jack Herris

1935881167

9781935881162

English

166

Paperback

This book describes and illustrates Germany s 1918 fighter development through the story of the three Fighter Competitions with than 215 rare photos illustrating 70 fighter designs.

Jack Herris has a long history with aviation His parents started dating while car pooling together to North American Aviation during WW2 Jack s father built P 51s including parts for the first P 51 Mustang ever built and his mother built B 25s In 1971 Jack graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics He then served as a Naval Aviator flying P 3B Orion aircraft with VP 46 After leaving the navy he worked in the Laser Fusion Program at Lawrence Liver National Laboratory then worked in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley He holds CFI CFI I CFI ME ATP and Learjet type ratings Jack is a long time member of the League of WWI Aviat Jack Herris has a long history with aviation His parents started dating while car pooling together to North American Aviation during WW2 Jack s father built P 51s including parts for the first P 51 Mustang ever built and his mother built B 25s In 1971 Jack graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics He then served as a Naval Aviator flying P 3B Orion aircraft with VP 46 After leaving the navy he worked in the Laser Fusion Program at Lawrence Liver National Laboratory then worked in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley He holds CFI CFI I CFI ME ATP and Learjet type ratings Jack is a long time member of the League of WWI Aviation Historians and before that the Cross Cockade Society and has written than a dozen articles on WWI aircraft published in their quarterly journal Over the Front and has edited several issues of that journal He brings insight into these aircraft both from his engineering and military pilot experience In 1992 he founded Flying Machines Press to publish aviation history books and after publishing a number of titles sold Flying Machines Press in 2000 He became a repeat offender by starting Aeronaut Books which published its first two new aviation books in November 2010 For information 65 color profiles and performance specifications The German fighter competitions are discussed in the context of the evolving combat environment and Germany s strategic situation Scale drawings of the Aviatik D, I to 1 48 scale are included in the book s 166 pages The book is of interest to aviation historians enthusiasts and modelers alike Germany s Fighter Competitions of 1918.

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