Jet Aircraft History

The fascinating story of the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird―the fastest manned aircraft in the history of aviation.

Whilst the Lavochkin bureau is one of the less well known of the Soviet aircraft design teams, it was at the forefront of the Soviet supersonic jet fighter programme from the late 1940s onwards and produced a number of very interesting aircraft. As always, the book has been researched in Soviet Archives and is well illustrated with a numerous photos and line drawings. This welcome addition to a very successful and ground-breaking series all those interested in Soviet jet aircraft design in the early Cold War era and by aviation modellers keen for source material on Soviet aircraft types of the period.

On 27 August 1939, Flugkapitan Erich Warsitz became the first man to fly a jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178 and in June of the same year he flew the first liquid-fuel rocket aircraft, the Heinkel He 176.