Me-163 Comet: the Luftwaffe's Top Secret Bird
- List Price: $14.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
- Publish date: 05/17/1965
Description:
Watching the space shuttle return from orbit today, few realize that the first steps which made it possible were taken in Germany more than 50 years ago. Written by top Luftwaffe fighter ace and unit commander Wolfgang Spate, this illustrated history recalls how the Germans designed, constructed, tested, and mass-produced the Me-163 Comet, the Luftwaffe's top-secret jet fighter that first saw action in 1944, too late to swing the tide of the war. The entire first-person account is illustrated with dozens of black-and-white photographs, many of them from Spate's personal archives, as well as five color sideviews of the Me-163.
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