Research Catalog

Title

Top secret bird : the Luftwaffe's Me-163 COMET / by Wolfgang Spate.

Author

Späte, Wolfgang, 1911-

Publication

Missoula, Mont. : Pictorial Histories Pub., c1989.

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Details

Description

vi, 270 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Uniform Title

Streng geheime Vogel. English

Alternative Title

Streng geheime Vogel.

Subjects

• 1939-1945
• World War > (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, German
• Messerschmitt 163 (Fighter plane)
• Späte, Wolfgang, 1911-

Note

• Translation of: Der streng geheime Vogel Me 163.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Out of battle into "secret command project" -- It all started with glider flying -- ...and so it came to the Me-163 -- With test command 16 at the Messerschmitt factory -- In the Führer's main headquarters -- Professor Hellmuth Walter and his engineers in Kiel -- At home for the front -- I discover the obstacles -- Over and over: Augsburg -- Berlin -- Peenemünde -- Hanna Reitsch -- Peenemünde-West test side for experimental weapons/pilot training -- Takeoff problems -- Setbacks -- Hanna Reitsch's bad accident -- Details slow us down, the war situation looks gloomy -- Can jet aircraft save us? -- The race against the clock -- Flying wing or not? -- The Me-262 -- our great hope -- First takeoff with the hot engine -- The work begins -- V.I.P. visit -- On to Zwischenahn and communications test detachment 216 -- Jagdegeschwader 400 starts to take shape -- My first powered takeoff -- The wait for the first bertas -- Aviation medicine and the Me-163 -- Who will make the first flight? -- Everything seems to be a conspiracy agianst us -- Return from the hospital and vacation -- Commander of the 4th group Jagdgeschwader 54 -- Baranowitschi -- Setting examples in living and in dying -- Nearing the end -- Too late -- Lost success -- A necessary afterthought.

ISBN

• 1872836100
• 0929521080 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^88090967^

OCLC

• 24111674
• SCSB-11804605

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library