XP67_Moonbat said:Check out the cover.
JC Carbonel said:That's Nord Minerve bomber firing its strategic missile. I had some exchanges with Mr Uhr about the missile but in the end he painted it magnificiently. Many books in the series had a blue-orientated colour and I wanted something different. I had initially suggested a night scene, with light coming only from the missile flame. But we ended with this golden hued cover. I am very pleased with Mr Uhr's work.
JCC
JC Carbonel said:Review of the text completed with Tony Butler's expert help. He picked up many mistakes, some originating from well-known authors which I religiously respected and copied! So I had to go back to basic and check "famous author" assertions against period documents. Period documents won every time. I expect layouting will start in early 2017
JCC
JC Carbonel said:So I had to go back to basic and check "famous author" assertions against period documents. Period documents won every time.
JC Carbonel said:Hello all !
the layout review is nearly complete !
What follow is a selection of pages I printed for this review.
And here is the list of chapters :
Introduction (includes a section on prototypes built by the Frenchs for the Germans during the war)
1 - the first jet bomber (SO4000 and others)
2- a more reasonable approach (Vautour, Grognard etc...)
3- the quest for the supersonic bomber (SO 4060, Mirage IV etc...)
4- the Minerve Programme (Breguet, Dassault, Nord, Sud and the missiles underneath...)
5- ECAT (Magister, Alphajet, Jaguar and the loosers...)
6- In the field (Baroudeur, ramp launch, catapult launch ....)
7- COIN is minted (various...all no go)
8- Low speed VTOL (BTZ part 2, Caillette part 2, Labat, Bertin, Nord500 , Eurofar etc...)
9- Helicopters (WG-13, armed SA-330, flying cranes etc...)
10-Assault transports (Br941 , Hurel-Dubois, civilian Transall, even military Caravelle ...)
11- Maritime Patrol and ASM (Alizé and Atlantic with radomes and protuberances, and numerous unproduced designs...)
12- Atomic Power (Sud nuclear Super-Caravelle , Sud Attila missile
13- I dreamt of saucers (Coanda, Couzinet, Pagès (!), Payen, SNECMA, Wibault)
14- Strangeways (flying infantry , flying car, flying armoured car, flying platform....)
I hope you'll like it.
JCC
JC Carbonel said:Well I have seen more enthusiasm ! This volume was much more difficult to research than the "fighter" volume because many subjects in it have never been properly covered in "monographies".
JC Carbonel said:I only did a very rough calculation but I estimate that 30% of this book is all-new, either coming straight from archive vaults or, in some case, coming from contemporary (to the project) publications. The rest comes from various friends and I have to assume it may have appeared in historical publications (even if sometimes obscure publications). Because previous experiences, I have learned to take Cuny with caution, so I tried to stay away from his book...unfortunately it has just not always been possible.
JCC
JC Carbonel said:Re : Ta 400 "in Luftwaffe over Amerika" (Manfred Griehl) the Ta 400 is described in a number of pages as being debated at length by the Luftwaffe high command (Milch, Goering...) as to wether it should be produced to drop a few bombs over New York...
JCC
August 2017 issue of the French magazine "Le Fana de l'Aviation"
From where did you get this ?fightingirish said:In the August 2017 issue of the French magazine "Le Fana de l'Aviation", there is an 3-page article about aircraft projects for the French Force de Frappe.
Again, great drawings by Alain Rataineau aka alanqua.
Looking foward to read about the French bomber projects in forthcoming book.
One concept is á la "B-58C Hustler". B)