Messerschmitt aircraft books - history (1/2)

Willy Messerschmitt - Pioneer of Aviation Design

Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) was indisputably one of the most significant of Germany's aeronautical design engineers.

This book examines Messerschmitt's life as a designer, aircraft builder, and businessman; it begins with the Harth-Messerschmitt gliders (1913-1923), winds its way through the sportplanes of the 1920s and 1930s, the M 18 and M 20 passenger airliners, the Bf 108 Taifun commuter plane, the Bf/Me 109, 110, 210, 410 military aircraft, and continues on to the Me 261, 264, 321, and 323 behemoths, as well as the Me 262 jet powered combat plane and swing-wing P.1101.
The activities of the Messerschmitt AG after World War II, with the forced interruption of German aircraft production and Professor Messerschmitt's foreign developments in Spain and Egypt, are also given a thorough treatment.

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Messerschmitt Aircraft since 1925 (Fact File)

Wilhelm Emil Messerschmitt is the most famous German aircraft designer and manufacturer. Messerschmitt's single most important design was the Bf 109, designed in 1934 which remains the most-produced fighter in history.
Another Messerschmitt model, the Me 209, broke the absolute world air-speed record. Messerschmitt AG also produced the first jet-powered aircraft in the world, the Me 262.

This Fact File edition includes details on all Messerschmitt aircraft and its variants. Included are all the facts and figures associated with each plane combined with contemporary photographs making this serious reference book.

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Messerschmitt - Pionnier de l'aéronautique allemande de 1914 à nos jours

Messerschmitt, if this name evokes the first jet fighter to fly in operation, the Me262, it is also the famous M109 unfortunate adversary of the Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. But beyond military aviation, Messerschmitt refers above all to its creator, Willi Messerschmitt, a brilliant pioneer of German aeronautical construction.
It is the story of this firm born in the aftermath of the Great War - today become the great Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB-EADS) group whose production, with more than one hundred thousand employees, goes from the Airbus to the Ariane rocket - that this volume reveals, for the first time, thanks to archive documents, unpublished photographs and original plans.
Today, Messerschmitt remains at the forefront of innovation among the greatest in aeronautics with more than 150 models created in 70 years.

The 350 illustrations, the detailed plans of the most famous aircraft, both civil and military, and the precisely documented history of this volume devoted to this legendary manufacturer make this work a must-have in the history of aviation. Nothing as complete on the subject, apart from a few monographs on certain models.

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Die Messerschmitt-Werke im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Using the Regensburg Messerschmitt works as an example, this volume presents an exciting and complex documentation of the German armaments industry during the Second World War.
After years of research, interviews with contemporary witnesses and previously unknown photographic material, the author has succeeded in creating a compelling documentation of an important chapter in German aviation history.

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