Боевые самолеты

From the author: "Starting back in the last century with the first full-size aircraft in history, built by our compatriot A.F. Mozhaisky, aviation has rapidly turned from a fashionable novelty into a means of transportation and a formidable weapon. Now, through the efforts of several generations of scientists, engineers, pilots, aircraft industry has become a powerful industry, an arena for creative competition between specialists in almost all fields of science and technology.Traveling the path of aviation development is the task of more than one book.We offer you one branch of a huge aviation tree - military aviation, as the most dynamically developing and determining the level of aviation science and industry, or rather, combat aircraft and the history of their creation. In our book, in particular, there are no reconnaissance aircraft and military transport aircraft that are no less interesting and advanced. The reader should bear in mind that we did not consciously seek "squeeze" comprehensive reference information into the book. For example, the illustrative part of the publication presents the aircraft that are most typical for military aviation of a particular period, machines produced in large series, and only some experimental and experimental machines. The text part of the book, devoted mainly to "mass" aircraft that determined the appearance of military aviation in different times and countries, contains information about designs that, although they did not become the basis for serial machines, played an important role in the progress of aircraft manufacturing, traces the path traveled by military aviation over the years and decades of its formation and development, introduces the most outstanding designs and their authors, the most important events and ideas that determined the direction of the creative search for engineers of different generations ... We hope that the proposed publication will help the reader to better imagine this area of ​​Human culture, which has imposed such a deep seal on many important events of the 20th century. Series: Perfection formula Publisher: Book and business,