Thomas-Morse MB-3 Book Published

[JackH]

Aeronaut Books today published The Thomas-Morse MB-3 | America’s First Indigenous Fighter. Historian Jan Forsgren tells the story of the first American-designed production fighter. Designed during The Great War, it first flew in February 1919, after the Armistice. In 1927 it starred in Wings, the first movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture. Jan Forsgren tells the story with authoritative text, 93 photos, 24 drawings, 14 color profiles, and 1/48 scale drawings of the MB-3 and MB-3A. The book is available now from Amazon.

Some may be wondering when Fokker Aircraft of WWI Volume 2 will be published. This book is complete. However, there is a technical issue that must be solved with the PDF file for the book's interior before it can pass the KDP pre-publication Preview processing. As soon as we can solve this problem, unique to this particular book, we will publish it.

All the best,
Jack Herris

[Tom_Cervo]

Includes a preview.
https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Morse-...0791737&sr=8-1

[YavorD]

My copy of the Thomas-Morse MB-3 book arrived.

A Review

A short narrative, 86 pages total, print on demand, most of the space is allocated to photographs, drawings and color profiles. The monograph follows the usual Great War Aviation Centennial Series format and provides the most comprehensive treatise on the history of Thomas-Morse MB-3 (and Boeing MB-3A) known to the reviewer. The technical description is quite brief but the photographs provide a lot more information about the aircraft construction. The monograph is readable and the most of the material is well presented.

There are few funny editorial glitches worth mentioning (e.g. one and the same G.A. drawing appears on pages 38, 39 and 51; a book is listed twice in the References).

Personally, I still need to find more about the aircraft and engine design variations of the MB-3/3A, including the alternative '4-aileron' wing on the McCook Field project number P260.

Summary: The book is recommended reading for those interested.