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Accueil de la librairie aéronautique / Aviation Militaire Contemporaine / Aviation militaire contemporaine française / FRENCH SECRET PROJECTS VOL II
As early as 1944 France began the task of re-building its military aircraft industry and developing high performance aircraft for its armed forces. In doing so, French aircraft manufacturers produced some of the most innovative, and indeed outlandish, bomber projects, proposals, designs and prototypes of the Cold War era.
Many French bomber projects started life in response to proposals from the French armed forces. Others were originated by the industry itself, it was also not unusual for rejected fighter designs to be entered in bomber competitions, etc. Furthermore, if the State organisations were not convinced of the validity of the industry proposals, or if the military still could not find any use for the technology being proposed, or if the budget was cut, manufacturers might modify their proposals in an attempt to obtain alternative funding from America (Mutual Defense Assistance Act), Germany or NATO. The result was a huge variety of bomber aircraft designs. In some cases a machine rejected for one specific military role could be modified with new avionics, engine or armament and reappear, maybe to succeed in another role.
As France became a nuclear power, so its requirement for nuclear strike aircraft (such as the Dassault Minerve V) grew, and many projects for advanced strike aircraft, including Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) designs, followed. Turbojet, ramjet and rocket propulsion and supersonic designs were all researched, sometimes taking advantage of captured German ‘wartime technology or using national pre-war research.
Companion volume to the acclaimed ‘French Secret Projects 1’; period drawings, promotional art, photographs of prototype aircraft, mock-ups, wind tunnel and promotional models are all combined to present, in French Secret Projects 2, a comprehensive view of French military bomber and strike aircraft designs from the Liberation of France to the late twentieth-century.
Delai:3 semaines CRY152 AMERICAN SECRET PROJECTS 3 U. S. Airlifters since 1962 George COX & Craig KASTON 2019, 360 pages, format 22 x 29, ...
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Delai:3 semaines HIK049 EARLY US JET FIGHTERS Proposals, Projects and Prototypes Tony BUTTLER 2013, 208 pages, format 21 x 30, 400 photos NB et ...
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Delai:3 semaines TDU294 LE TRAIT D’UNION Juillet / Août 2017 n°294 Collectif 2017, 60 pages, format 21 x 29, photographies NB ...
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Delai:3 semaines SOD150 INDUSTRIES DE LA DEFENSE DANS LE MONDE Analyse économique Fanny COULOMB 2017, 119 pages, format 13 x 21, texte ...
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Delai:3 semaines CRY157 FRENCH SECRET PROJECTS VOL 3 French and European Spaceplane designs Jean Christophe CARBONNEL 2021, 232 pages, format ...
35,00 € TTC
