Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story of the Zero Fighter

Hardcover 16x24 cm, 158 pages. The main strength of this book is that it allows you to understand the early life and education , then the steady aeronautical progress that Jiro Horikoshi made towards getting the A6M Zero built and designed , and the struggles he had with a later aircraft , the Imperial Japanese Navy Interceptor J2M Raiden ( Jack ) . J2M was designed by , to meet the 1939 official specification. It was to be a strictly local-defense interceptor, intended to counter the threat of high-altitude bomber raids, and thus relied on speed, climb performance, and armament at the expense of manoeuvrability. You learn about the problems with the design and also the final wartime attempts to improve the performance of the Zero from 1943-1945 - and the reasons for the delayed introduction of the A7M Reppu ( the successor to the Zero ) in 1945 - in short this book tells you everything you really need to know. 9780856133978 Orbis