Messerschmitt Me 262: Arrow to the Future

by Walter J. Boyne

Book Overview

Messerschmitt Me 262: Arrow to the Future tells the dramatic story of the Me 262's combat career as a fascinating chain of events in which planning, luck, and even blind stupidity played important roles. Even by today's engineering standards, magnificent is the only word to describe the effort to bring the plane's jet engines, which eclipsed the performance of all contemporary aircraft, from the laboratory to production in an amazingly short time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874742757
• ISBN13: 9780874742756
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Smithsonian Inst+press
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.