<p>In 1934, the German Air Ministry issued a requirement for a single-seat, interceptor fighter monoplane. Professor Willy Messerschmitt headed a design team that strove to achieve optimum performance by designing the smallest possible airframe, and yet still accommodating the most powerful engine. The BF109 evolved through various stages of development, and soon it replaced all previous models in first-line service with the Luftwaffe.</p>

Messerschmitt BF109 (Classic WWII Aviation)

History

SHACKLADY, Edward

Military

Tempus

P-47 Thunderbolt (Classic WWII Aviation)

Tempus Pub Ltd

De Havilland Mosquito (Classic Wwii Aviation)

Messerschmitt Bf109

P-47 Thunderbolt

TEMPUS PUBLISHING + (UK)

Hawker Hurricane

The History Press LTD

. with dustjacket, large format, 1987 clean bright copy

Spitfire: The History

Morgan, Eric B.

Key Publishing Limited

The Gloster Meteor [MacDonald Aircraft Monographs]

Doubleday Edition

<p>Covers the design and development of this plane, its variants, and its radical engine design. 225 photographs and 24 color plates depict technical aspects as well as personal, squadron, and camouflage designs. </p>

Butcher Bird: The Focke-Wulf Fw190

Cerberus Pub

The de Havilland Mosquito was the non-conformist among aircraft of World War Two as its ingenious wooden construction was revolutionary. Like most of the world’s greatest combat aircraft the Mosquito owed nothing to official sponsorship and its appearance relied totally on the dogged perseverance of its designers, Geoffrey de Havilland and C. C. Walker.  Conceived originally in 1938 as a fast, highly maneuverable, yet unarmed day bomber, the Mosquito did not get official recognition until March 1940 when an order for fifty was given by the British Air Ministry. It soon proved to be an outstanding aircraft and quickly established a reputation for excellent flying qualities, an unequalled talent for destroying pin-point targets, and for having, by a large margin, the lowest loss rate of any aircraft in service with Bomber Command. Its versatility made it unique and the Mosquito was successful in such varied roles as a high and low-level day and night fighter, long-range day and night-fighter, fighter-bomber, minelayer, pathfinder, rocket-armed ground attack and high and low-level photo-reconnaissance aircraft. 

De Havilland Mosquito (Classic WWII Aviation)

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