One Man Designed the Hurricane, the Tempest, AND the Harrier—You've Never Heard of Him скачать в хорошем качестве

One Man Designed the Hurricane, the Tempest, AND the Harrier—You've Never Heard of Him

The Hurricane won the Battle of Britain. The Typhoon shattered German armor across Normandy. The Tempest hunted down V-1 flying bombs when almost nothing else in the Allied arsenal was fast enough to catch them. The Sea Fury became the fastest piston-engined fighter ever to see combat. And the Harrier—the Harrier reinvented what a military aircraft could be.Five aircraft. Five chapters in the story of twentieth-century air power. All designed by the same man.His name was Sydney Camm. And you've almost certainly never heard of it.That should bother you. Because you've heard of Kelly Johnson—Lockheed's Skunk Works genius, the man behind the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-104 Starfighter. You've heard of Willy Messerschmitt, whose name is permanently stamped onto the Bf 109 and the world's first operational jet fighter, the Me 262. You've probably even heard of R.J. Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire, immortalized in a 1942 film starring Leslie Howard while the war was still being fought. Mitchell died tragically young, at forty-two, never seeing his creation's finest hour. It made for an irresistible story. And the British public never forgot it.