"Fly Higher Than the B29!: A Memoir of Young Researcher Naotsugu Isshiki" By Naotsugu Isshiki Publisher: Hara Shobo Price: 1,600 yen (including tax: 1,760 yen) ~Product Description~ A self-biographical record of a young researcher who worked on the development of turbochargers for aircraft engines to counter the U.S. military's large bomber, the B29, which flew at an altitude of 10,000 meters during the end of the Pacific War. After being fascinated by airplanes and entering the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the former Tokyo Imperial University, he was mobilized to the Army Aviation Technical Research Institute and experienced secret stories. The emotion of how the technology of the time was used in the post-war automobile industry, etc. The joy of invention. These are compiled into an easy-to-read book for beginners. The author is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology and former President of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. ~Table of Contents~ Part 1: Airplane Boy, to the Front Lines of the Technological Battle Against the U.S. (My Boyhood as an Airplane Lover; The Goal is the Tennessee Valley!; The Front Lines of the Technological Battle Between Japan and the U.S. - Norikura Mountain Peak, Army High Altitude Research Institute; The Rushed Production of the "V-1" That Ended Unfinished; Friends Who Died on the Front Lines and in the Rear; Surviving the Chiba Air Raid by the Skin of My Teeth) Part 2: From "Sky" to "Sea" and Then "Land" After the War (Cold Sweat in the Sea Experiment of American Outboard Motors; A Strange Relationship with the Tragic "Toya Maru"; Yesterday's Enemy is Today's Friend - Studying in America on the "Hikawa Maru"; From Nuclear Research to Natural Energy) Part 3: That's Why I Can't Stop Inventing ("Curiosity" is the Source of Invention - From Zeppelins to UFOs; My Later Life Dedicated to the Stirling Engine; Always Seeking "Beyond") #FlyHigherThanTheB29 #NaotsuguIsshiki #HaraShobo #AircraftEngine #Turbocharger #AeronauticalTechnology #WarExperience #PacificWar #Engineer'sRecord #AutobiographicalMemoir #TokyoImperialUniversity #JapanSocietyOfMechanicalEngineers #StirlingEngine #HistoryOfScienceAndTechnology #MechanicalEngineering #B29