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I got this for Xmas. Great book, great subject. I know Goodyear missed out on a few contracts at this time due to capacity problems and high USN demand (contemporary) for their ZSG non-rigid LTAs but the GA-28 seems to be a far more sensible offering than the contracted convoy fighter demonstrators or at least Lockheed's non tail sitting, tail sitter. Being able to takeoff and land horizontally and transition at the push of a button to vertical aspect (while on its wheels) for takeoff and or after landing (and vice versas) seems like a very important capability for any in service tail sitting aircraft.I'm still waiting for Zichek's "Volume 2 of Secret Aerospace Projects of the USN". I know book writing and publishing doesn't work like that so I'm happy to see them one monograph at a time but I would like to see another complete package book in larger format. Like something covering all of the convoy fighter proposals or the second and worst placings in the various VF/VA competitions of the 1940s and 50s. We know he's got it in him and a market if he can find the time and/or publisher to make it realized.
I got this for Xmas. Great book, great subject. I know Goodyear missed out on a few contracts at this time due to capacity problems and high USN demand (contemporary) for their ZSG non-rigid LTAs but the GA-28 seems to be a far more sensible offering than the contracted convoy fighter demonstrators or at least Lockheed's non tail sitting, tail sitter. Being able to takeoff and land horizontally and transition at the push of a button to vertical aspect (while on its wheels) for takeoff and or after landing (and vice versas) seems like a very important capability for any in service tail sitting aircraft.
I'm still waiting for Zichek's "Volume 2 of Secret Aerospace Projects of the USN". I know book writing and publishing doesn't work like that so I'm happy to see them one monograph at a time but I would like to see another complete package book in larger format. Like something covering all of the convoy fighter proposals or the second and worst placings in the various VF/VA competitions of the 1940s and 50s. We know he's got it in him and a market if he can find the time and/or publisher to make it realized.
