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royzee's review
4.0
Another excellent tome in this series of long ago that should be brought back to cover some of the fifth generation aircraft and others in this handy informative, compact, well-priced style.
What plane fan could not wonder how this astonishing pioneering jet fighter came into being? The audience for this book is therefore ready-made, maybe bought as a companion to the one on its deadly rival the Sabre. Read here how the engineers got it so right so quickly and just in time to help the Soviet allies in the Korean War. One might ponder what if the "Fagot" (terrible name and we find out why here) had been a failure like too many of its contemporaries.
Read too about the origins of the all-important engine... crazy times, the Sabre with its axial turbojet (possibly derived from "axis" WW2 tech) vs the Whittle-derived centrifugal blaster... And then about how the men fought in it, how well it fared and how it was used by whom and when. Included are some details of how examples found their way to the "enemy" although at the time of writing information was less freely available on the secret soviets hidden in the US heartlands.
What plane fan could not wonder how this astonishing pioneering jet fighter came into being? The audience for this book is therefore ready-made, maybe bought as a companion to the one on its deadly rival the Sabre. Read here how the engineers got it so right so quickly and just in time to help the Soviet allies in the Korean War. One might ponder what if the "Fagot" (terrible name and we find out why here) had been a failure like too many of its contemporaries.
Read too about the origins of the all-important engine... crazy times, the Sabre with its axial turbojet (possibly derived from "axis" WW2 tech) vs the Whittle-derived centrifugal blaster... And then about how the men fought in it, how well it fared and how it was used by whom and when. Included are some details of how examples found their way to the "enemy" although at the time of writing information was less freely available on the secret soviets hidden in the US heartlands.
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