Mitsubishi A5M Claude: Kagero Monograph #75 SC
Mitsubishi A5M Claude: Kagero Monograph #75 SC softcover KG3075
The mid-1930s saw the ever increasing numbers of fast monoplane fighters entering service with many of the world's air forces. This was not the case in naval aviation, where biplane designs still reigned supreme. One exception to the rule was the French Navy with its aircraft carrier Bearn and embarked Dewoitine D.371T1 fighters in parasol configuration, hardly a promising design for carrier-based aircraft. Prevalence of biplanes among naval fighters of the time was due to very strict limitations on landing speeds imposed by small flight decks of contemporary aircraft carriers. It was in the middle of that decade, in 1935, that the Mitsubishi A5M entered the stage - a low-wing, monoplane carrier-based fighter, which set new standards for aircraft of its class. Having said that, the Claude wasn't the first fighter in this configuration designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy .
Published 2021, 76 pages, 132 archival photos, 10 color profiles, softcover, A4 Format, 8 1/4” (21 cm) x 11 3/4 “ (29.7 cm )
KAGERO MONOGRAPHS
The Kagero Monograph series is a series of highly illustrated books on the key fighting machines of the 20th century and their combat use. Each volume extensively studies the subject aircraft with the modeller in mind; including production history, variants and modifications, technical description, combat usage, camouflage, insignia, colour profiles and illustrations, hundreds of archive photos.
KAGERO BOOKS
This fine Polish publisher was established in 1991, initially producing magazines for modellers. They have subsequently published hundreds of books, on aircraft, ships, and armour, all with the plastic modeller and aviation enthusaist in mind. Most have extensive photographs, and profile artwork as well as plans and technical drawings, some books come with decal sheets. Most have English text, some are bilingual in Polish / English.
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