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An engineer's view of the Zero as an engineering/design project
This is an account of the Mitsubishi Zero fighter plane, written by its chief designer. I picked it up on a recent trip to Japan, shortly after seeing the new Ghibli film Kaze Tachinu; it was originally written in 1970, so this was a rerelease by the publisher to coincide with the film.
The book divides broadly into two parts: in the first half, Horikoshi recounts the birth of the Zero, starting with the initial impossible-seeming design brief from the military, working through design and engin