Flying Fury. Introduction by C.G. Grey
Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1930
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Author : James Thomas Byford McCudden
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1930
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Author : James McCudden
Publisher : Casemate / Greenhill
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 193514975X
The day-to-day insights of a brilliantly daring World War I ace that only ends with his death at the age of 23 . . . James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and, ultimately, an untimely end. Here, in this unique and gripping firsthand account, he brings to life some of aviation history’s most dramatic episodes in a memoir completed at the age of twenty-three, just days before his tragic death. During his time in France with the Royal Flying Corps from 1914 to 1918, McCudden rose from mechanic to pilot and flight commander. Following his first kill in September 1916, McCudden shot down a total of fifty-seven enemy planes, including a remarkable three in a single minute in January 1918. A dashing patrol leader, he combined courage, loyalty, and judgment, studying the habits and psychology of enemy pilots and stalking them with patience and tenacity. Written with modesty and frankness, yet acutely perceptive, Flying Fury is both a valuable insight into the world of early aviation and a powerful account of courage and survival above the mud and trenches of Flanders. Fighter ace James McCudden died in July 1918, after engine failure caused his plane to crash just four months before the end of World War I. His success as one of Britain’s deadliest pilots earned him the Victoria Cross.
Author : United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : James Philip Noffsinger
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
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Expanded from the 1987 World War I Aviation Books in English: An Annotated Bibliography to include about 1,000 books in other European languages and to extend the coverage to 1994. The arrangement is first by language then by author. The annotations are mostly descriptive but occasionally critical. Among the 4,217 listings are privately printed books, limited editions of rare books, and reprints and different editions of the same work. Also includes a listing of government publications, a price checklist of selected books compiled from dealer's catalogs, collectors' evaluations, and a few photographs. Of interest to book collectors as well as historians. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : James Philip Noffsinger
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Author : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
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Page : 860 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1969
Category : International relations
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, England)
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 1936
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