Kagero z•z I-16 Rata The fighter that saved the USSR Oleg Pototskiy
Mitsubishi A6M Reisen Zeke
Mitsubishi A5M Claude Dariusz Paduch
Volume 2 Dariusz Paduch Monographs Special Edition, Vol. 96014 • $49.95 Paperback • 180 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 300 archive photos, 24 color profiles, sheets with scale drawings • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-50-2
The purpose of this monograph is the author’s desire to introduce the reader to a remarkable fighter aircraft, that which had a great influence on both the pre-war development of Soviet aircraft, and the military developments that occurred in the first few months of the war between Germany and the USSR. And at the same time about its creator - Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, who had the unspoken title of “King of fighters” during his lifetime.
Monographs, Vol. 3073 • $28.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 134 archival photos, 22 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-33-5
Monographs, Vol. 3075 • $33.95 • Paperback 76 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 132 archival photos, 10 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-35-9
The result of years of experimentation by the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen is perhaps the best known Japanese World War II fighter type. The Zero, or “Zeke,” in official Allied reporting, saw action in practically all battles waged by the Imperial Japanese Navy, from the attack on Pearl Harbor all the way through the defense of the Home Islands against the B-29s. During the first months of the war in the Pacific the Zero emerged as a world-class fighter, unrivaled in the air by anything the enemy could muster. However, with no worthy successor in sight, by 1943 the Zero was all but obsolete.
The mid-1930s saw the ever increasing numbers of fast monoplane fighters entering service with many of the world’s air forces. This was not the case in naval aviation, where biplane designs still reigned supreme. Prevalence of biplanes among naval fighters of the time was due to very strict limitations on landing speeds imposed by small flight decks of contemporary aircraft carriers. It was in the middle of that decade, in 1935, that the Mitsubishi A5M entered the stage – a low-wing, monoplane carrier-based fighter, which set new standards for aircraft of its class.
Volume 1
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa
Dariusz Paduch
Volume 1
Tawoczkin Ta-5
Boeing (Mcdonnell Douglas) F/A-18 A/B/C/D Hornets
Dariusz Paduch
Monographs, Vol. 3076 • $33.95 • Paperback 96 pages • 8.3x11.7 120 archival photos, 10 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-46-5
This monograph describes the La-5 - Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter from World War II. The plane was developed in the S.A. design office. The Lavochkin was a development version and successor of the LaGG-3, a wooden low wing with an inline engine. It was one of the best fighter planes in Soviet aviation and the first to compete on an equal footing with the German Messerschmitt Bf 109.
Monographs, Vol. 3077 • $33.95 • Paperback 76 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 90 archival photos, 10 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-48-9
Nakajima K-43 Hayabusa, code-named Oscar by the Allies, was the Imperial Japanese Army’s equivalent of the Zero fighter in service with the Imperial Navy. In combat units the machine replaced the aging Ki-27. Manufactured in large numbers, the fighter remained in frontline service until the end of the war. By the time its final version entered production, the development of its successor – the Ki-84 – had already started. Hayabusa was the pinnacle of the Japanese fighter design development until the lessons learned in the Pacific laid the ground for new approaches to the construction of tactical aircraft.
The First Generation Of A True Multirole Jet, Volume I Salvador Mafe Huertas Monographs, Vol. 3078 • $35.95 • Paperback 150 pages • 8.3x11.7 • 380 archival photos, 4 color profiles • Currently Available • HIS027140 978-83-66673-51-9
The F/A-18 Hornet is a single- and two-seat, twin engine, multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft that can operate from either aircraft carriers or land bases. The F/A-18 fills a variety of roles: air superiority, fighter escort, suppression of enemy air defenses, reconnaissance, forward air control, close and deep air support, and day and night strike missions. The F/A-18 Hornet replaced the F-4 Phantom II fighter and A-7 Corsair II light attack jet, and also replaced the A-6 Intruder as these aircraft were retired during the 1990s.
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