Tupolev

This book reviews the specifications, histories and operations of 76 airliner types from the last half century. It is illustrated with more than 200 outstanding color photographs from all around the world, showing the airliners both in service and preserved examples that can still be seen today. Included are fondly-remembered types such as the Lockheed Constellation, Douglas DC-3, and Vickers Viscount, plus some less well-known yet significant types, such as the Dassault Mercure, Breguet Deux Ponts, Saab Scandia, and VFW-614. All the appropriate Boeing, Douglas, Antonov, Lockheed, Ilyushin, and Tupolev types appear. For aviation enthusiasts.

Content:
-Le Mitsubishi J2M Raiden ("Jack") flit l'intercepteur de "Superfortress" de la Marine japonaise
-Le Caudron C.690 en service
-Duels aeriens RAF/Luftwaffe en 1941
-Un B.C.R. Sovietique, le Tupolev ANT-7
-Les Junkers Ju 52/3m Portugais 1918 : les Nieuport Tchecoslovaques
-Maquette : le Mistel DFS 230+Bf 109

This is the latest among Midland's very successful 'Secret Projects' series. This, the second of three volumes covering Soviet secret aviation projects, is devoted to post-World War II fighters and will include designs from famous bureaus such as Lavochkin, Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Yakovlev, Myasishchev, and Tupolev. The book covers early post-war fighters, competitions for the first-generation supersonic designs (MiG-21 and Su-7/-9), advanced designs of the 1960s which led to the MiG-2 and competitions to build the specifications which resulted in the MiG-29, Su-27, and MiG I-44.

One of the great success stories of aviation publishing in recent years has been Midland's 'Secret Projects' series. Starting with three volumes of Luftwaffe Secret Projects and following on with the British Secret Projects series, we now turn to the what the Soviets were getting up. The aviation industry of the former Soviet Union has produced many outstanding military aircraft. However, there were many other proposed projects for fighters and bombers that never saw the light of day and almost all of them are completely unknown in the West. The end of the Cold War has given the opportunity for researchers in Russia to uncover these projects for the first time.

A la une dans ce numéro : FARNBOROUGH 2012 : la riposte de Boeing
Et également : Le mystérieux avion de reconnaissance Tupolev Kourou est prêt pour les grandes cadences L'espace militaire, vecteur de souveraineté Retour sur la tragédie du vol AF447

È con un punto di vista originalissimo, che Francis Spufford racconta la storia dell'Unione Sovietica tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta. Una serie di personaggi veri e inventati si muovono sullo sfondo di vicende storiche ben documentate per darci il quadro generale di un periodo intricato, spesso falsato dalla propaganda politica: la corsa dell'"economia pianificata" in gara con quella americana per il primato di ricchezza e progresso. L'autore racconta la storia di un'idea con un tono leggero, spesso ironico: il dramma di un popolo che crede nelle favole prende forma da solo, senza bisogno di enfasi o di scene tragiche.