Vakhmistrov's Circus: Zveno Combined Aircraft - The Projects, Development, Testing and Combat Paperback – April 3, 2017

Mr. Maslov has produced an excellent book at this price point. It's nicely illustrated and has good amount of text describing the men involved, technical difficulties, development, and use. The pages devoted to technical development were quite satisfying with adequate numbers of illustrations/photographs covering the unique equipment used to mate the aircraft along with illustrations of proposed parasite aircraft. Some of the Helion books covering some aspect or another of Soviet aviation have suffered from poor reproduction of photo's/drawings, etc., I can happily say this monograph does not. The photographs and drawings are of sufficient quality to allow direct visual comparison with the contemporary equipment used to recover the F9C Sparrowhawk onboard the USS Akron and USS Macon. At 144 pages it's a great introduction to Soviet composite aircraft.One minor caveat; if you're looking for in-depth technical descriptions of the aircraft involved like the TB-3, they're not there.Overall, highly recommended for those with an interest in composite aircraft or pre-war Soviet aviation.

Yes ,a wonderfull book,well written with good photos some new to me nice profiles added to the text..IF you have an interest on russian aviation history,well worth to have in your book collection.Gary