Aircraft Manufacture in Bulgaria

Hardbound 186 pages. 22x29 cm size. The book describes the tries of the Bulgarians to build airplanes, dating from the very begging of the aviation era. Goes trough the first air war - The Balkan war. The first sue cessfull Bulgarian project comes in 1915 from the famous Asen Jordanoff. In the book are described the constructions of all Bulgarian aircraft (Uzunov, DAR, KB, LAZ) with exact drawings. technical characteristics and rich picture material with very high quality. The symbolic end of the book comes in 1955, when Bulgarian joined the Warsaw Pact and under outside pressure stops the manufacture of aircraft. The actual end of the book is dedicated to the hope of revival, connected with the manufacture of the new Bulgarian motorless airplanes. 8 pages with 28 colour camouflages, 28 graphics and 312 high quality black and white photos, most of them never published before