Nov 072009
 

At long overdue last, Justo Miranda’s “Unknown!” volume 3 is now available for download. This issue includes: 26 pages of English text, 34 pages of technical illustrations with 148 1/72 scale drawings and two pages of colour illustrations.The Unknown! series is at the bottom of this page:

http://www.up-ship.com/blog/drawndoc/rd/rd.htm

Unknown! #3 covers:

*Horten X series, Horten Ho X “Volksjäger”, Horten Ho X-A research airplane, Horten Ho X-B transonic fighter, Horten Ho X-C supersonic fighter
*Handley Page 115, British research airplane
*Gluhareff “Dart” American project for ojival delta fighter in 1941
*Evolution of Morane French fighters between 1937 and 1943 (19 variants)
*Renard R-42, high altitude Belgian fighter
*Hawker P.1009 “Sea Phoon”, extended wings naval version of “Typhoon”
*”Panzerschreck” series of antitank German unguided rockets, including: “Panzerschreck” I, II, III and IV, “Fliegerschreck”, “Panzerblitz 2”, “Panzerblitz 3” and the launch systems used by the Focke Wulf 190 F-8.
*Jet Thunderbolt. A graphic study on the different projects to install a turbojet engine on the P-47 fighter.
*Caproni Ca 183 bis, Italian high-altitude Campini interceptor
*Evolution of the Ohka suicide bombers and their different launch systems. It covers Model 11, 21, 22, 33, 43A (Otsu), 43B (Kon), 53, submarine hangar, underground storage & rocket catapult, “Tenga” jet bomber, “Ginga” Mod. 33 with extended fuselage. Hypothetical reconstruction of the Model 11 “floatplane” used in Singapore as suicide boat towed by a Shinyo Type 5 motorboat and a story by John Baxter on the attack to the Panama Canal, made by 12 “Ohka” 43s launched from submarines.

Unknown #3 can be purchased for download for $16.


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