Rocket Fighter (The Fastest Warplane in World War Two)
William Green - Rocket Fighter (The Fastest Warplane in World War Two)
Ballantine Books | 1977 | ISBN: 0345258932 | English | 162 pages | PDF | 126.98 MB
Ballantine Books | 1977 | ISBN: 0345258932 | English | 162 pages | PDF | 126.98 MB
Rocket fighters enjoyed a very brief appearance on the stage as a weapon of war, and the Germans got the most use out of them with their odd-looking Me 163 interceptor. The Germans were not the only nation to play with this weapon – Britain, Soviet Union, and the United States also made failed attempts at producing such a fighter. In the end, the rocket fighter failed as a weapon of war, but it failed spectacularly.
William Green gives a fairly comprehensive account of this odd aircraft, with plenty of illustrations and photographs to back up his text, and anyone who reads this will gain a full story of this most bizarre of all of World War II's fighter aircraft.