The Duel that Was Never Fought: The Spitfire 21 and the Me 209 One of the many things I wish I had found the space to fit into THE DECISIVE DUEL was an explicit comparison between the development of the Spitfire 21 and the Me 209. Neither aircraft made much direct impact on the Second […]
http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/ The Falke Eins blog has a brief entry on Nazi Germany’s OTHER female test pilot. She survived having Jewish blood, marrying into the von Stauffenberg family and extensive wartime test flying, especially of dive bombers, until a P-51 got her in April 1945. Or did it? She certainly deserves a book-length English-language biography.
http://www.channel5.com/shows/heroes-of-the-skies/episodes/douglas-bader-2 For those in the UK, 27 September at 8pm is the second episode of Channel 5’s Heroes of the Skies. It features another “character” appearing in THE DECISIVE DUEl, George “Screwball” Beurling, of Verdun PQ, who was probably the last successful daylight “lone wolf” fighter pilot. THE DECISIVE DUEL describes his key similarity to […]
http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/uhc/es_ww_ii_german_aviation.cfm Dulles Virginia – The National Air & Space Museum facility has pulled together an exhibit on German Second World War aviation.
The first episode of the new Channel 5 TV series starts with Douglas Bader who is a major character in THE DECISIVE DUEL, although it seems to focus on his flying Hurricanes while leading 242 Squadron during the Battle of Britain. I include in THE DECISIVE DUEL “Stan” Turner’s reponse to Bader’s speech on taking […]
http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/ The problem of the Bf 109 design in dealing with the in creasing torque forces as later versions used more powerful engines is the subject of an interesting piece in the Falke Wins blog.
Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry in World War II I used this as a source for research for my book THE DECISIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS. 109, a “dual biography” of the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft of the Second World War. I found it accurate and thoroughly […]
A review of: DAY FIGHTERS IN DEFENCE OF THE REICH: A War Diary, 1942-45 by Don Caldwell Writing my book THE DECISIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS. 109, a “dual biography” of the British Supermarine Spitfire and German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft of the Second World War, I became familiar with the surviving original Luftwaffe archival […]
The Decisive Duel
for the Skies
that Shaped World War II
By David Isby
Published by
Little, Brown in London
Available now from
Amazon
