RUSSIAN CIVIL AND MILITARY AIRCRAFT 1884-1969

 

NOWARRA, Heinz J. and DUVAL, G.R




 
One of the basic sources for Russian aircraft/. `Russian Civil & Military Aircraft' tells the complete story of the development of Russian aviation from the first attempt at manned powered flight to the latest supersonic passenger aircraft of today. The book is a result of three years intensive research by an experienced team of authors, artists and draughtsmen, and it represents the most authoritative and complete record of Russian aircraft history yet published.The authors begin with the early pioneers who struggled against an almost overwhelming lack of official support, and the book traces their slow and somewhat inadequate progress up to the Revolution. After 1917 the Red Air Force was recognised and an air of efficiency was introduced into the whole of the aviation industry. 

















Basing their initial design and technology on the Germans, the Russians had developed by 1936 an aircraft industry that was self-sufficient and equal to those of other major air powers. The Second World War confirmed the ability of the Russians to produce excellent fighting machines, and after the war the civil side of the industry continued its rapid progress that had begun a few years earlier with many record breaking civil flights.The final chapters of the book follow the post-war development right up to the supersonic passenger transport destined for use with Soviet airlines.The book is superbly illustrated throughout, and, in view of its obvious interest to Russian historians, the captions are printed in Russian as well as English


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