A Pilot's Pilot, Karl Baur, Chief Test Pilot for Messerschmitt

Hard cover, small format, (6"x9"), 240 pages, 150+ black & white photographs. The exciting story of Karl Baur, the chief test pilot for Messerschmitt during World War II. In addition to providing interesting biographical details of this colorful personality, the book provides an intimate look at innumerable aircraft during their testing stages before becoming the legends of aviation history. Karl Baur was one of the elite test pilots that developed the revolutionary Me 262 jet fighter. The photographs of rare and exotic Messerschmitt aircraft are alone worth the price of the book. One of the more interesting Third Reich aviation books to be published.