Luftwaffe Emergency Fighters: Blohm & Voss BV P.212 , Heinkel P.1087C, Junkers EF 128, Messerschmitt P.1101, Focke-Wulf Ta 183 and Henschel Hs P.135 (X-Planes)

Excellent! Robrt Forsyth has given us an excellent account of late war German jet design. This Osprey title also gives the reader the usual excellent period photos, illustrations and color artwork we're all used to.The author gives us the strategic situation Germany was facing at that point in the war with total defeat staring them in the face as well as fleets of allied heavy bombers raining destruction on Germany on a daily basis.The author covers the reasons for the requirements in that they had had some intelligence on the Meteor and the Airacomet and we're trying to anticipate what performance would be required to defeat the next generation of allied jets.The author then dives into each proposal from German aircraft manufacturers. Blohm & Voss, Heinkel, Junkers, Focke Wulf, Messerschmitt submitted designs ranging from fairly conventional swept wing designs to delta wing and tail-less designs. They would have to be built from steel and wood in part because of the scarcity of strategic materials.I was just amazed looking at how futuristic and exotic these aircraft look even today! The autor writes about the designers, the design philosophies, there are rare drawings, illustrations and period photos.The last chapter on the influence these designs had on future aircraft design comes up short. I believe late-war German aircraft design has had more influence than many people feel comfortable with.While this 82 page Osprey title isn't the last word on the subject by any means, you get an excellent overview. Five stars!

With Germany fighting a losing two-front war in 1944, the call went out for emergency fighter designs that might turn back the Allied bombing campaign against the German industrial heartland. A number of prominent aviation firms responded. Their designs were cutting edge and forward thinking, and under better circumstances might altered the course of the war..."Luftwaffe Emergency Fighters" is an Osprey X Planes Series book, authored by Robert Forsyth, with illustrations by Jim Laurier and Wiek Luijken. The book discusses each of half a dozen entries in the emergency fighter competition. The text is accompanied by some fascinating period photographs and modern illustrations. None of these planed reached the fully fielded stage before the end of the war, but the designs were truly the shape of things to come in the jet age that followed the Second World War. Highly recommended to student of aerial combat in the Second World War, and of the "might-have-been's" that Germany produced near war's end.

Great introductory monograph on the last ditch effort by the Luftwaffe to get a tide-turning jet into production. The kindle editions are great little downloads to read while traveling and too cheap to spring for on-board WiFi. I think they're great reads that cover a fair amount of topics in reasonably decent depth for the size of the publication. If you already have an extensive library on this subject, I'd still recommend it as Mr. Forsyth has fleshed out a few details that will undoubtedly be remiss in other volumes. Highly recommended for people with an interest in not only Luftwaffe jets, but those with an interest in post WWII aviation and the development of early jets.

Have other books on experimental German planes, but this one is the best. The books has shoen just how much German researxh was incorporated in oher countries aircraft.

Gives alot of info on some of the many crazy luft 46 concept planes, some good photos and 3 view drawings, wish they uncluded more photos but overall a good book and gives you a visual of each plane in it.

Very nicely done book, showing extremely interesting planes -- some of which were built, others that never got past model stage. Each has a very nicely done color three view depicting a possible "what if" color scheme. I doubt you will ever be able to find more photos and information for these particular jets than contained in this book, a top-notch production in all respects.

A lot of aircraft NOT EVEN Known of covered in this publication ! Six Emergency Fighters from the German Axis Power are discussed !! We were lucky that FUEL / PILOT > , SHORTAGES coupled with the ALLIED Air supremacy over GERMANY .... prevented their Terrible Application and Use !

A good book that talks about german reaserch on jet engines that I knew nothing about.

Great and cleverly concise account of the German's very late in war attempt to get a high technology fighter into service.Thankfully for the allies a case of too little too late!Enjoyed and loved the illustrations.Know its a somewhat frivolous request but could there be some more "what if" combat scenarios as on the front cover.

Fascinating tale of what might have been in the air in mid-1945 ... given intact factories to build them, intact runways to launch and any fuel to fill them with..

For me, a fascinating subject!.

The Luftwaffe jet projects at the end of the war are extremely interesting, and this book covers it in very good detail. It’s not a full definitive book on the subject, as early in the book it mentions the numbers of projects under work from each manufacturer, and here we get the one from each that was submitted as their entry into this last ditch program. So there’s still more designs to be covered, but the most important ones are covered here. Each one gets a chapter, but this doesn’t mean they are all covered in equal, as due I’m sure in most part to limited records on a number of the designs, the Junkers, Heinkel and Henschel projects each get 3 pages of coverage, of which 2 is text and 1 is a 3 view digital artwork of how the design was most likely to look with real markings. The Ta 183 and P.1101 get far more written due to more available information and pictures, as well as them ending up being more favourable picks for the program along with the BV P.212 which gets decent coverage as well. The ending chapters talk of the results of the program findings and what aircraft were selected for becoming prototypes and their predicted production schedule, as well as the post war aircraft designs that followed on their paths. It’s well written, very interesting and the artwork is top notch, would have liked more coverage on each one but given the restrictions of the series size it’s understandable. Also covered is the engine program that’s meant to power these keys and the armaments they are meant to be equipt with, including the cannon, R4M rockets and X4 guided missile. Only thing I picked up on being an issue is in a table showing the predicted specifications of each aircraft the P.1101 wingspan is 2.58m, while all other are around 9m, and it’s obvious this isn’t the case so that must be a typo.

Ich habe selten so viele mir neue Fotos gesehen. Die farbigen Ansichten sind sehr gut gemacht. Für den Index auf der letzten Seite (Seite 88) braucht man allerdings eine Brille. Da war wohl mehr Stoff als Platz vorhanden.