Rocket Fighter The Story of the Me 163

by Mano Ziegler

$120 · Offered by Rare Aviation Books

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1963. Large octavo, hardcover, xiv, 162 pp., 12 plates. Bottom of the rear cover slightly bumped. Otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust-jacket. The flight testing of the world's first fully-controllable rocket aircraft, the Me 163, is one of the most dramatic chapters of aviation history. The story is told by Mano Ziegler, one of the thirty pilots of Erprobungskommando Test-Commando 16, who, under the veil of deepest secrecy,

• Binding: Hardcover

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