Robert C. Mikesh (1928–2022)
Autor(a) de Zero Fighter
About the Author
Obras de Robert C. Mikesh
Zero: Combat and Development History of Japan's Legendary Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter (Motorbooks International Warbird… (1994) 36 cópias
ALBATROS D.Va: German Fighter of World War I (Famous Aircraft of the National Air and Space Museum) (1980) 27 cópias
Excalibur III: The Story of a P-51 Mustang (Famous Aircraft of the National Air & Space Museum) (1978) 22 cópias
Monogram Close-Up 13: Aichi M6A1 Seiran, Japan's Submarine-Launched Panama Canal Bomber (1975) — Autor — 13 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Mikesh, Robert C.
- Data de nascimento
- 1928-02-28
- Data de falecimento
- 2022-02-12
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Ottumwa, Iowa, USA
- Pequena biografia
- Robert C. Mikesh was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, on February 24, 1928 and resided there until joining the U.S. Air Force in 1949. Aviation had always been his avid hobby, and it was during these early years of his life that he collected this material on aviation matters in Iowa. Mr. Mikesh served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force for 21 years, during which time he was assigned for eight years in the Far East and Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, he served as an Air Liaison Officer with VNAF for part of that time. His military experience included flying night intruder B-26s with the 17th Bombardment Wing in Korea, and serving as a Forward Air Controller while flying O-2As with the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron in Vietnam. With an accumulation of 9000 flying hours in many types of aircraft, his high-time aircraft is the Martin B-57 Canberra, flown at various assignments over a 15 year span.After retirement from the Air Force in 1970, Mr. Mikesh fulfilled a near lifetime ambition by joining the staff of the National Air and Space Museum. His responsibilities in this capacity included ensuring that the aircraft being restored for the museum were complete and exact in every detail ranging from internal accessories and structural repair, to exterior colors and markings. Adding historical and technologically significant aircraft to the Museum’s collection was also one of his duties. As an author, he is a frequent contributor to various aviation magazines on diverse aeronautical subjects. His best known specialty, however, deals generally with Japanese aviation subjects. He was written twelve aviation books, including Zero Fighter and The B-57 Canberra at War.
Membros
Resenhas
Japanese Aircraft, 1910-1941 (Putnam Aeronautical… de Robert Mikesh
hardback
You might think that polished racehorse at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is a triumph of restoration. Not compared to these it isn't. The quality of the work involved in these restorations is terrifying and intimidating. A superb book.
In the 1980s, Jane's of London initiated an art project. It teamed great writers and a magician of light and shadow to profile famous WW II airplanes while telling combat episodes of their pilots.
Zero: From the first page, the color of green tea, the Zero begins service with a Japanese attack on Chungking in 1940. Air battles were one-sided- the Chinese had nothing as good. By 1941, pilots knew that they could outclimb, outturn and fly farther than any allied fighter. Foldout on p.10-12 is a clean, but undistinguished, design. It sacrificed pilot protection and self-sealing gas tanks to have such performance on only 950 horsepower (while the U.S. Navy Wildcat, a future opponent, had 1200 hp). It became a fearsome archenemy. Not until a lightly damaged Zero was recovered in the Aleutians could that reputation be judged against newly designed Allied fighters in 1942. Knowing relative strength and weaknesses, any fighter pilot could 'mix it up' with Japanese and enforce Allied control over a battlezone. Mitsubishi's improvements to the Zero never made up for the power and equipment on Corsairs, Hellcats, Thunderbolts and Mustangs. Look on p. 46 for a detailed look at the cockpit, p. 42-44 & 53-54 for related designs that never realized full potential.
Buy this for reference when you read Japanese memoirs such as Zero,Zero, The Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific-as Seen by the Enemy.
Possibly the best book on the Zero out there. The author does a great job of covering the events and aircraft leading up to the creation of the Zero, and the picture quality is superb. A full engine diagram consumes one page entirely, and there are several fold out color profiles of Zeros and the aircraft that followed the Zero, like the J2M3 Raiden. Quotes from pilots and engineers make for great reading, and one section is dedicated to the fly off reports conducted by the US with a captured Zero, flown against contemporary US types at NAS San Diego in December ’42.
Every Zero model is summarized. The color renderings are amazing -- and they were hand created, not computer generated (the book was first published in 1981). There are two and three page color fold-outs of the A6M Zero Model 21, Zero Model 52, J2M Raiden, A7M Reppu, N1K1 Shiden, and J7W Shinden.
The text discusses design specifications, armament, fuselage design, and engine selection. There are also tabulations of dimensions, weights, and performance characteristics for every model (page 33).
There is also a complete discussion of the Zero that was recovered from the Aleutian island of Akutan and then subsequently repaired and flight tested at the US Naval Air Station (NAS) in San Diego in 1942.… (mais)
Zero: From the first page, the color of green tea, the Zero begins service with a Japanese attack on Chungking in 1940. Air battles were one-sided- the Chinese had nothing as good. By 1941, pilots knew that they could outclimb, outturn and fly farther than any allied fighter. Foldout on p.10-12 is a clean, but undistinguished, design. It sacrificed pilot protection and self-sealing gas tanks to have such performance on only 950 horsepower (while the U.S. Navy Wildcat, a future opponent, had 1200 hp). It became a fearsome archenemy. Not until a lightly damaged Zero was recovered in the Aleutians could that reputation be judged against newly designed Allied fighters in 1942. Knowing relative strength and weaknesses, any fighter pilot could 'mix it up' with Japanese and enforce Allied control over a battlezone. Mitsubishi's improvements to the Zero never made up for the power and equipment on Corsairs, Hellcats, Thunderbolts and Mustangs. Look on p. 46 for a detailed look at the cockpit, p. 42-44 & 53-54 for related designs that never realized full potential.
Buy this for reference when you read Japanese memoirs such as Zero,Zero, The Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific-as Seen by the Enemy.
Possibly the best book on the Zero out there. The author does a great job of covering the events and aircraft leading up to the creation of the Zero, and the picture quality is superb. A full engine diagram consumes one page entirely, and there are several fold out color profiles of Zeros and the aircraft that followed the Zero, like the J2M3 Raiden. Quotes from pilots and engineers make for great reading, and one section is dedicated to the fly off reports conducted by the US with a captured Zero, flown against contemporary US types at NAS San Diego in December ’42.
Every Zero model is summarized. The color renderings are amazing -- and they were hand created, not computer generated (the book was first published in 1981). There are two and three page color fold-outs of the A6M Zero Model 21, Zero Model 52, J2M Raiden, A7M Reppu, N1K1 Shiden, and J7W Shinden.
The text discusses design specifications, armament, fuselage design, and engine selection. There are also tabulations of dimensions, weights, and performance characteristics for every model (page 33).
There is also a complete discussion of the Zero that was recovered from the Aleutian island of Akutan and then subsequently repaired and flight tested at the US Naval Air Station (NAS) in San Diego in 1942.… (mais)
Excalibur III (North American P-51C) nearly missed its chance for glory by not being assigned to a combat squadron. Instead of ending up in the Boneyard, it went on to amass great racing victories and records and also to develop new navigational techniques for air transportation routes across the top of the world.
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- Obras
- 20
- Membros
- 427
- Popularidade
- #57,179
- Avaliação
- 4.4
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 30
- Idiomas
- 1
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