Название: Silent Invaders: Combat Gliders of the Second World War
Автор: Gary Best
Издательство: Fonthill Media
ISBN: 1625450001
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 5,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
Combat gliders were called by some as ‘Death Crates’, ‘Purple Heart Boxes’, ‘Flying Coffins’ and ‘Tow Targets’. They were not pretty and had no graceful lines. Viewed from the front, they had a pug nose and a sloping Neanderthal forehead. Their wings looked like the heavily starched ears of a jackrabbit placed at right angles on a canvas-covered frame. Twice the length of the body, these wings were eighty-four feet in length, 70 per cent as long as the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. They could not become airborne, let alone fly, unless assisted by an engine-powered tow plane.