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Aircraft of the Soviet Union by Bill Gunston Merchant ship 1900-60 Conway's his
Aircraft of the Soviet Union by Bill Gunston
Conway's history of the Ship
THe Classic Merchant Ship 1900 - 1960
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket Has plastic protective cover
414 pages
Copyright 1983
CONTENTS
Preface 7
Introduction 9
Soviet aircraft designations 17
Air weapons 21
Materials 24
Engines 25
Soviet organisations 29
Miscellaneous data 30
Aircraft of the Soviet Union A-Z 35
DUST JACKET
This truly unique work is the most complete and accurate record of the prototypes and production aircraft built by the Soviet Union ever published, anywhere. Not even the Soviet Union itself has produced a comparable book on this scale. Utterly comprehensive, and backed by a wealth of political insight, AIRCRAFT OF THE SOVIET UNION fills the biggest gap in contemporary aviation literature. For the first time, the details of more than 800 Soviet civil and military aircraft (airliners, sailplanes, helicopters, fighters, bombers, etc.) appear among the 416 pages of this indispensable source of reference. All the great names are here: Antonov, Beriev, Gurevich, Ilyushin, Kamov, Lavochkin, Mikoyan, Myasishchev, Petlyakov, Polykarpov, Sukhoi, Tupolev and Yakovlev, but so too are all the other designers that are less well known in the West.
Every known product of each OKB (aircraft design bureau), is revealed to the reader by concise yet assiduous data, complementing the high illustrative content. Nearly 900 illustrations appear with almost 350,000 words of text. Never before has so much new artwork and rare photographic material been assembled in just one book devoted to Soviet aircraft. A special section includes pertinent information relating to Soviet organizations, Russian language, weapons, engines, NATO code-names, even a guide to the materials used by the Soviet aircraft industry.
BILL GUNSTON, an accomplished author of incalculable experience, has painstakingly sifted and collated every factual item found here from both sides of the East-West divide. Delve into the authoritative pages of this magnificent volume.
Inside Aircraft of the Soviet Union
Most complete reference work on Soviet aircraft yet published
*Close to 350,000 words
*Over 400 pages
*Nearly 900 illustrations
*Covers more than 800 Soviet civil and military aircraft
*Highest quality printing and binding
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