GLEN EDWARDS & THE FLYING WING

Glen Edwards's diaries have been donated by his family to the Edwards Air Force Base museum, presently located within the base but eventually to be housed in a new building outside the west gate, so it will be more accessible to the public. These are the originals of the daily record that went into Glen Edwards: Diary of a Bomber Pilot, published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1998.

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

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