New Osprey Aircraft Series Entitled Allied
Anyone familiar with aircraft modeling literature and research will recognize this authoritative series, and this latest release won’t disappoint.The V-22 Osprey is a special breed of aircraft. Jim Laurier was commissioned to illustrate the various allied aircraft via original color artwork. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft.Osprey Publishing, out of Oxford, UK, is back again with another Aircraft of the Aces series entitled Allied Jet Killers of World War 2, by Stephen Chapis and Andrew Thomas. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, tiltrotor military aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing ( VTOL) and short takeoff and landing ( STOL) capabilities.
AIRCRAFT FLEET ALTERNATIVES HEAVY - LIFT AIRCRAFT ALL FLEETS INCLUDE PLANNED CH - 53E FORCE OTHER AIRCRAFT CAPABLE OF CARRYING HMMWVs V - 22 NEW HELICOPTER. The type utilizes all of the inherent strengths of the existing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor line with some refinements to suit over-water, carrierborne. Video courtesy of NewsCore.The Bell Boeing CMV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft is the United States Navy's (USN) chosen successor to the long-running, storied Northrop Grumman C-2 'Greyhound' fixed-wing carrierborne transports.
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Or that despite over 40 attempts by Ar-234’s to frustrate the bridge crossing and bridgehead at Remagen it was a disaster for the aircraft type – scoring zero hits on the bridge itself, with heavy losses due to allied flak and fighters. For example, I did not know that the very first confirmed kill by a jet aircraft was a photo-recon Mosquito PR XV1 on 8 August, 1944, near Munich. While the authors don't dwell on these aircraft (it is, after all, a book about Allied jet killers), I would have liked to have seen a little more information at least a page or two dedicated to line drawings and such, so the reader could see the relative size and armament of these aircraft when compared to their various allied adversaries.The real meat of Allied Jet Killers still lies in the interesting anecdotes from the pilots themselves, from both sides of the conflict, and this is where the book excels.
Along with their previous releases, Allied Jet Killers of World War 2 belongs in any aircraft modeler’s book shelf.I would like to thank Osprey Publishing for providing this book for review, and IPMS/USA for giving me the opportunity to review it. You get a real sense of how things might have evolved differently if Germany had managed their jet programs better.I highly recommend this latest addition to the Aircraft of the Aces series by Osprey Publishing.
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