Publisher's Synopsis
During the closing months of WWII, the U.S. Army Air Forces took advantage of the victories of the Allies and created a task force headed by von Kármán to evaluate captured German aeronautical data and laboratories for the US. Air Force. Von Kármán team followed the steps of the advancing American, and British forces searching German laboratories, and airfileds. The group was ordered to travel to many european countries as possible. Operation LUSTY (Luftwaffe Science and Technology), has begun. A model airplane with triangular, arrow-shaped wings was found in the Luftfahrforschungsanstalt. The most exciting discovery during this mission was a secret aerodinamical laboratory in a pine forest near Volkenrode, a village outside the city of Braunschweig. It was the Luftfahrforschungsanstalt Herman Goering or the Herman Goering Aerodynamical Institute These facilities included an eight meter wind tunnel, a high speed wind tunnel, two supersonic wind tunnels, an armament laboratory. Many of the buildings were looted, but the equipment were intact. Americans used metal detectors to recover thousands of metal boxes buried with top secret documents. This facility was a treasure trove of documents, yielded the greatest return in the field of research. Where did all those technological advances come from? In 1936 a 'flying saucer' allegedly crashes in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) near Freiburg, opening the door for advanced German technology in aeronautics and space (reverse engineering). The ship and its occupants were spirited away to the dark heart of Nazi Germany, where all was dismantled and diligently studied. A resulting program was called Haunebu. Von Kármán was the master mind in the captured of all this technology from the Third Reich. This edition is a collection of documents regarding von Kármán's life, and has the following parts: 1.Wonder Weapons of the Third Reich, 2. Theodore von Kármán: The Close Encounter Man, 3. Operation Lusty', 4. Von Kármán's FBI File.___Please, copy and paste the link for our books: https: //saucerianbooks.blogspot.com/ ___
