The mighty Corsair. I love the inverted gull wing and the general look of the thing.


I've often wondered about that extended tail on the Corsair. Was that to house the arresting hook?

The Corsair does have a slightly unusual tail. Yes, the long taper would be to house the hook and also to ...

Combat Aircraft of WW2, by the legendary Bill Gunston. This is an excellent general resource. It's a bit hard to read the text but I was able to zoom slightly, which improved things.

https://archive.org/details/combat-airc ... i/mode/2up

The WW2 airpower series Clash of Wings. Walter Boyne, who was in the USAF, analyses The Second World War in the air. It's a good series. Here's a playlist of the entire thing.

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2ns60

As a kid who enjoyed watching Firefox, this is good stuff. Soviet fighter projects.

https://archive.org/details/soviet-secr ... since-1945

The Me 264 Amerika Bomber

https://archive.org/details/messerschmi ... r_compress

The ill-fated He 177.

https://archive.org/details/heinkel-he- ... s/mode/2up

Chinese aviation since 1951.

https://archive.org/details/chinese-air ... 1-pdfdrive

More secret weapons of the Luftwaffe (for anyone old enough the remember that game)

https://archive.org/details/luftwaffe-s ... -1939-1945

British fighter and bomber projects 1935-1950.

https://archive.org/details/proyectos-s ... britanicos

Soviet bomber projects since 1945

https://archive.org/details/490056551-s ... a+gross%22

I mustn't forget all the Mustang freaks. This is another compressed file with several books.

https://archive.org/details/p-51-mustan ... 7/mode/2up

The mighty Corsair. I love the inverted gull wing and the general look of the thing.

https://archive.org/details/squadron-si ... r/mode/2up

The P-47 Thunderbolt. For me, it has to be the bubbletop versions. It really transformed them. They still look purposeful but much more modern. Such a crazy fighter, with a massive turbo behind the cockpit.

https://archive.org/details/squadron-si ... t/mode/2up

It's interesting to see how everyone learned you needed tricycle gear on a jet. I remember reading test pilots had to step on the brakes to get the tail up before it could leave the runway with the two wheel configuration on the Me262.

Great post. So much to read. ;)

My pleasure. I haven't read ...

I have this in hardcover. It's very good. Flying wing projects. Right...that should keep you going for a bit

https://archive.org/details/psav_20200512

British Cold War hypersonic projects.

https://archive.org/details/proyectos-s ... itanicos-1

Secret Luftwaffe strategic bomber projects.

https://archive.org/details/proyectos-s ... trategicos

British Cold War bomber projects.

https://archive.org/details/proyectos-s ... itanicos-3

British Cold War secret fighter projects.

https://archive.org/details/bsp_20210113

The FW 190. One of my favourites.

https://archive.org/details/fw-190-3/Fw-190_1/mode/2up