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    U.S. Experimental & Prototype Aircraft Projects: Fighters 1939-1945

    U.S. Experimental & Prototype Aircraft Projects: Fighters 1939-1945


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    • Format: Hardcover
    • 263 pages
    • Publisher: Specialty Press (MN)
    • Published: November 2008
    • ISBN-10: 1580071090
    • ISBN-13: 9781580071093

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    This book focuses on those American fighter projects of WWII that never reached combat forces, or only in a very limited manner. The book illuminates little known or minimally documented aircraft and projects that significantly advanced fighter design that never went into full-rate production and deployment. The 'standard' types are also examined to illustrate the 'state-of-the-art' at the time, the American posture and capabilities, goals set by national and military leadership, and general factors affecting the course of development for classes of fighters. Hence, this work follows the overall development of American fighter aircraft, but emphasizes those little-known projects that matured to the point of significant design development such as mockups, wind-tunnel models, and especially those yielding flying prototypes. Also includes 'dead-end' variants of service types, those only exported after US evaluation, and aircraft that entered service in only small numbers before being overcome by more advanced models or the end of hostilities.
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