GLEN EDWARDS & THE FLYING WING
Horten Ho 229 Spirit of Thuringia:
The Horten All-Wing Jet Fighter (Andrei Shepelev & Huib Ottens)
I'm a sucker for books about all-wing aircraft. This one book gives the
short version of the Ho/Go-229's development. The authors aren't
native English speakers, and it shows in their somewhat labored text:
Italics are used too often (Luftwaffe, Professor, Fraulein, though
they long ago passed over into English), and there's a slavish obedience
to German titles (the sister is introduced as "Fraülein Dip.phys.
Gunilde Horten"). Nevertheless, any all-wing buff should have this book,
with its plentiful photos,line drawings, and computer-generated images.
Here are my notes from a first reading.
Glen Edwards: Diary of a
Bomber Pilot will soon be re-published under the imprint of the
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. That
means I'll have to withdraw the e-book editions, so if you want one,
be quick about it!
Click here for Glen Edwards for the Kindle, Amazon's nifty new
e-book reader; and
click here for the Mobipocket version which can be read on any
personal computer and many mobile devices. You can also get an
autographed copy of the hardcover book from me.
More all-wing stuff: there are a couple of new books and a 1/72 scale model of the Horten Ho-229 at Historic Aviation.
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
The Diary of a Bomber Pilot:
- V-Mail from the war zone
- Grim Reapers in North Africa (chapter 3)
- Table of contents and author's note
- A Glen Edwards photo album
- How to buy the book (and why you should :)
The flying wing + nurflügel files:
- The Flying Wing Store
- David Myhra's books about the Horten all-wings
- Jack Northrop lectures the Royal Aeronautical
Society
- General Robert Cardenas recalls the YB-49 ...
- ... and so does Northrop test pilot Charlie Tucker
- A Flying Wing bibliography
- Notes on the Horten all-wing aircraft
- Prince Albert meets the Flying Wing (1942 advertisement)
- A ring in the desert (Danny Forbes's wedding ring found)
- Jack Northrop's flying-wing airliner
Flying wing links:
-
The crew of YB-49 (photos and short biographies)
- The Nurflugel
Page: the source of all things all-wing

Flying Tigers: 'The exciting story of this legendary fighting force that wore American uniforms but Chinese insignia. Every page contains a new tidbit of information and rich, long-forgotten detail' (WWII)
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