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Название: Dogfight: The Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt BF109 Автор: David Owen Издательство: Pen & Sword ISBN: 1473828066 Год: 2015 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 360 Размер: 66,3 МБ Язык: Английский
Innumerable books have been published on the two most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf109. But books setting out to tell the story of both aircraft are very much rarer - probably fewer than the fingers of one hand. Yet their joint story is one which bears retelling since both were essential to the air campaigns of World War Two. Incredibly, the men who designed them lacked any experience of designing a modern fighter. R J Mitchell had begun his career working on industrial steam locomotives, Willy Messerschmitt had cut his aeronautical teeth on light and fragile gliders and sporting planes.