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With pictures showing large, improvised wooden ramps built to allow the fighters to be moved up to their mounts on the upper wing of the bomber it could inspire some really interesting and impressive dioramas. A really interesting book and an intriguing topic. -- Robin Buckland Military Model Scene

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Mikhail Maslov was born to the family of a serviceman in Mary (USSR, now Turkmenistan) in 1954, while was brought up in a town in the Urals. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (University) in 1982 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Mikhail worked as structural design engineer at Tupolev Design Bureau in 1982-86 and then transferred to TsAGI engineering information department where took various posts, including that of a deputy head of the department. From the end of 1990s he is actively involved in restoration of historical aircraft, including airworthy Po-2, I-15bis, I-153, I-16, DIT, and MiG-3 airplanes. Already during his work at Tupolev, Mikhail became interested in the history of Soviet aviation of 1920-40 period and began the research and analysis of archive material. In the last 30 years of his enthusiastic work he wrote numerous articles and several dozens of books on the history Soviet aircraft of that period.

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