No matter how famous Junkers, Heinkel and Kurt Tank were, it was not they who became the No. 1 German aircraft designer, but Willy MESSERSCHMITT. This book is the first creative biography of an aviation genius who has many aviation masterpieces to his name - the legendary Bf 109, rightfully considered one one of the best combat aircraft in history; the famous Bf 110 fighter-bomber; the largest landing glider of its time, Me 321; six-engine military transport Me 323; the Me 163 missile interceptor and, of course, the epoch-making Me 262, which actually began the jet age. Messerschmitt also had failures, the most notorious of which was the infamous Me 210, but despite rare failures, what he created would have been enough for several lives. Being an aircraft designer himself and a professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, the author not only restores the true biography of Messerschmitt and the history of his difficult relationships with the leadership of the Third Reich, but also professionally analyzes all its projects.