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Soviet rocket research aircraft in the post-war years remained largely unknown until the collpase of communism, when historians began to enjoy a limited access to Soviet military aviation archives. But if some types had been more or less known to experts and intelligence communities in the West, Samolyot 346 was almost completely unknown. Making use of German war-time research and hardware generated by the DFS 346 project initially outlined in Ernst Udet's report, its existence was disputed by some and accepted by others. This has now changed, and the present work is proof. Many photographs and drawings that have not been published before are shown here for the first time. (Extracted from the Introduction, by the author).
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OUR REVIEW Henry Matthews, a Fellow of the famous British Interplanetary Society, has devoted his second monograph to another Soviet vehicle, in this occasion the mysterious Samolyot 346, one of the most secret ones in the postwar years of this country. Just like other experimental craft of this era, the Samolyot 346 meant a great step forward in the supersonic program, not only the Russian one but also at a worldwide level. It has been thanks to the disappearance of the old Soviet Union that many previously unknown details in the project have come to see the light, and the book by Matthews attempts to do justice to it by giving it the credit it merits in truth. The great amount of photographs appearing in the book raise it to the category of essential for every fan of the history of aeronautics who wishes to complete their knowledge on this mythical craft. Most noteworthy is the net of contacts and collaborators that Matthews has all over the world, above all in Russia and Great Britain, which allows him to have available access to novel, first-hand material. |
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