Yefim gordon biography examples
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Chinese Tupolev Tu-2 & Tu-4 night fighters
There are not references on that page, only the following two but about the Tu-4 in a general way:Wyvern said:
Yeah, unfortunately Global Security has been giving me problems like that recently. The problem is that there are few other English language articles that I could find.
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- Bolger, Daniel P. Reluctant Allies: The United States Army Air Force and the Soviet Voenno Vozdushnie Sily 1941-1945, CHICAGO UNIV IL January 1985, ADA169037
- "A History of Strategic Arms Competition 1945-1972" (U), Volume 3, A Handbook Of Selected Soviet Weapon and Space Systems, United States Air Force, June 1976. pgs 82 and 85
The following three pages on Global Security site are related to the Tu-4 night fighter (also with no references):
Tu-2 Dive Bomber / Night Fighter
The Tu-2 dive bomber, also used as a light bomber and reconnaissance plane, was an exceptional Soviet aircraft of World War II
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Early Soviet Jet Fighters
by Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov
At 2.04 kilograms (4½ pounds) this heavy tome is worth its weight in gold to anyone interested in the technical details of early Soviet jet fighter development. When 822 photos, drawings, blueprints, schematics, specification and flight performance sidebars are combined with 100,000+ words of pointedly descriptive text, there is little left for the reader’s imagination to ponder as far as construction and performance details are concerned.
The book opens with an introduction that gives the background of jet engine development in the Soviet Union from roughly 1939 to 1945. There wasn’t much happening during that time period, and nothing that was advanced enough to help the Russians during World War II. The war’s end provided the Soviets with captured German BMW and Junkers jet engines to reverse-engineer. As an added bonus, in 1946 the British sold the Soviets examples of the fully operational Rolls-Royce Nene I,
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air-minded, adj.
The world is a bad place right now, and a lot of that has to do with bombing civilians. And it's impossible for me to look at the news from Gaza, or from Ukraine, and not think of my own current book project on the bombing of British civilians in the First World War. But inom don't know whether what's happening now makes my history more necessary, or more inadequate. It hardly seems comparable. I just don't know how to think about it.
So instead, inom made some AI art.
It's a long way from 2009/1937, let alone 1915.
Image source: Midjourney.
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