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Aviation technology progressed by leaps and bounds during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Although much of this was due to advances in airframe design, much less appreciated is the role of aero engine development. This book focuses on this aspect, particularly German piston aero engine design and development, which has been generally under researched and under published compared to Allied piston aero engines. It covers key piston aero engines such as those produced by Daimler-Benz, BMW, and Junkers, as well as less well appreciated engines such as those produced by Siemens, Argus, and Hirth. It also covers turbojets and rockets, particularly the Junkers Jumo 004 and Walter 109-509 that powered the infamous Messerschmitt Me 262 and Me 163 jet and rocket fighters. Finally, the book concludes with tables comparing Allied and German piston engines, a glossary of key terms, and a bibliography.
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Jason R. Wisniewski's "Powering the Luftwaffe: German Aero Engines of World War II" is a great introduction to the engines that powered many famous, and not so famous, Luftwaffe aircraft. Other reviewers have mentioned that the tome reads much like a research paper, and to a great extent that is very true; however I completely appreciated the way the text was presented and felt that the foot notes and citations that Wisniewski offered throughout the text were relevant and informative to say the least. Quoting notable aviation journalists and authors like Bill Gunston also greatly aided the text in terms of relevancy in my opinion.
The overall book is a simple card stock paper back with chapters being divided up by manufacturer. Piston aero engines are discussed first, followed by the turbo jet and rocket engine production. The text reads very smoothly, and you can tell that the author did a fine job in performing the research and translating it into a text that keeps the reader engaged while not putting you into a coma as some technical writings can do. The pictures are all black and white throughout, with a nice whole page cutaway of the BMW 801 radial engine. That being said, the majority of the pictures are small in size, with many being taken from internet sources. This was a bit disappointing, but I fear that books in the future may be forced to publish in the same manner with so many historical photos being placed in electronic storage today.
The final pages of each chapter offer charts with a range of information from horsepower figures to octane ratings and production numbers of each of the engines discussed within that particular chapter. The final pages of the book offer an appendix that really is cool to see, as the author compiled all the data from the previous pages and formed a comparison chart that allows an "at a glance" comparison between the engines discussed in the tome and other power units used by the Allies and other Axis powers.
Had the pictures been a bit better, this would have been a five star write up. That being said, "Powering the Luftwaffe: German Aero Engines of World War II" is still an incredibly informative read to anyone seeking more information on these engineering marvels.
When I ordered this book, I thought that the author had conducted his own research into the development of some of the most important aero engines of the Second World War. It turns out that much of the book appears to have been assembled from Wikipedia articles. While such articles can be useful info sources, this book still seems incomplete. There are a number of glaring inadequacies, such as:
Maps and graphs that are postage stamp sized, and unreadable;
Photos that are washed out, grainy and too small to be informative;
Data tables that are poorly constructed and confusing.
There are comparison tables listing characteristics of major aero engines from all combatants, Aliied and Axis, which assume that the reader is already quite familiar with these engines. There is a great deal of numerical data. Problem is, the author seems to be content to simply present this raw data to the reader, without much analysis or effort to reach any conclusion.
I think that this book as far less than it could have been.
A bit light-on in technical detail. Author has relied heavily on well known sources of material on the subject. Not a great document
I bought for books last week from Amazon. Two were novels and they were both good or better. But I also bought two WWII books. One was a Kindle book on tanks and the other was this paper back. Both of these books were terrible.
This book is mostly just printed tables of specifications. There is very little analysis or back story. This is the kind of book experience that turns you off from buying books online. If I had run across this book in a book store, I would have quickly realized that there was almost no content. I would have rejected it at once. But on the Web a book like this can appear plausible.
It's not.
Not what I expected ,it leaves you expecting more and it doesn't fill the necessity for a true book on German engine's I am very disappointed.
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