Iljuschin Flugzeuge: Bücher - Geschichte und Einsatz

Iljuschin Flugzeuge - seit 1933 (Typenkompass)

Nachdem die Firma Iljuschin zunächst Militärflugzuege baute, begann sie nach Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges auch mit der Konstruktion von zivilen Verkehrsflugzeugen, welche sich in den folgenden Jahren schnell etablieren konnten.
Auch die mächtigen Frachter von Iljuschin sind weltweit verbreitet und haben den Ruf des Herstellers als Konstrukteur von nahezu unverwüstlichen und soliden Gebrauchsflugzeugen gefestigt.

Jeder Typ wird anhand eines Fotos, einer historischen Beschreibung und eines technischen Datenblatts vorgestellt.

Details

Autor:	Rudolf Höfling
Ausführung:	128 Seiten, 20.5 x 14 cm, kartoniert
Abbildungen:	64 s/w-Abbildungen und 68 Farbfotos
Verlag:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2013)
Serie:	Typenkompass
ISBN:	9783613036048

Il-2 Shturmovik - Red Avenger

The Il-2 was designed as a low-level close-support aircraft capable of defeating enemy armour and other ground targets. Hardly a fighter, the Il-2 was exclusively engineered to take an enormous amount of punishment and still keep the pilot, rear gunner and critical mechanical components unharmed.
In the end, the Il-2 would become the most important aircraft to the Soviet Union in the defence of the homeland against advancing hordes of panzers. At its height, production of the Il-2 hit a peak of 300 aircraft per month and variants boasted potent 23-mm cannon, 200 anti-tank bomblets and 4 x 132-mm rockets.

The Il-2 became a highly respected and highly feared adversary. Soviet air crews dubbed the Il-2 as the 'Flying Tank' for its incredible ability to withstand a tremendous amount of damage and still release its payload only to return home intact.
Not only did its rear gunners shoot down Luftwaffe aces thanks to its 12.7-mm machine gun, the Il-2 was also used as a fighter and German pilots were amazed to see 20-mm cannon shells bouncing off its armour plates.
Crews were also known to weld additional armour to their Il-2s. The Shturmovik proved so effective that many Soviet crews were recipients of the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union. Even today, the Il-2 is regarded as the Russian equivalent of the Spitfire.

By the war's end, some 36,000 Il-2s were produced and became the symbol of the Eastern Front.

Details

Autor:	Jason Nicholas Moore
Ausführung:	320 Seiten, 25 x 17 cm, gebunden
Abbildungen:	174 s/w-Abbildungen und 83 Farbfotos
Verlag:	Fonthill Media (GB, 2015)
ISBN:	9781625450425

Ilyushin / Beriyev A-50 : The Soviet Sentry (Flight Craft)

Brought out in the late 1970s as a successor to the obsolete Tu-126 airborne early warning aircraft, the A-50 co-developed by the Il'yushin and Beriyev bureaux is one of the most interesting military variants in the field of Il-76 military transport. Differing outwardly from the latter mainly in having a conventional "saucer" rotodome, the A-50 entered flight testing in 1980; the new Soviet AWACS entered service four years later. The improved A-50M was developed several years after that. The type continues in service with the Russian Air Force today, and the fleet is being upgraded to A-50U standard.

This book describes the A-50's thrilling developmental history, taking in its many variants (including the A-50EI export model for India) and gives an extensive overview of the various scale model kits covering the subject currently available on the market.

Details

Autor:	Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov
Ausführung:	96 Seiten, 30 x 21 x 0.7 cm, kartoniert
Abbildungen:	reich illustriert
Verlag:	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2015)
Serie:	Flight Craft (6)
ISBN:	9781473823914

Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle - Light Attack Bomber

The IL-28 entered service with the USSR Air force in 1950 and has often been dubbed "The Russian Canberra". It served with the airforces of Egypt, China, Czechoslovakia and Poland, in addition to the USSR.
This is an in-depth study of this long-serving light bomber.

Details

Autor:	Yefim Gordon Dmitriy Komissarov
Ausführung:	224 Seiten, 26 x 19 x 1.8 cm, gebunden
Abbildungen:	reich illustriert
Verlag:	The Crowood Press Ltd (GB, 2002)
ISBN:	9781840373516