Book Description
This popular and highly-acclaimed series includes an abundance of photos, accurate line drawings, fascinating evaluations of aircraft design, and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.
Author : Kenneth E. Wixey
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Transportation
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This popular and highly-acclaimed series includes an abundance of photos, accurate line drawings, fascinating evaluations of aircraft design, and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.
Author : Francis K. Mason
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
Highly acclaimed for its comprehensive coverage of the aviation industries and their products, from the turn of the century to the present, this popular series includes an abundance of photos and highly accurate line drawings. Each volume provides fascinating evaluations of aircraft design and construction and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.
Author : David Hobbs
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2024-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1399089536
This is a comprehensive study of every aircraft type ordered for the Royal Navy since 1908. It includes fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, rigid and non-rigid airships, unmanned aircraft and pilotless target aircraft together with many designs that were ordered but not built so that the importance placed on them by the Naval Staff or their potential technological impact on carrier design and operations can be explained. Every type – even unsuccessful single prototypes – is described; the majority are illustrated by photographs, many of which come from the author’s own collection, and the fifty most significant aircraft have detailed drawings. The Australian and Canadian Fleet Air Arms operated RN aircraft types for many years after their formation and these are included together with other types they have operated subsequently to give a more complete overview. The book describes over 400 different types of aircraft built by over 100 different manufacturers to offer the most detailed coverage of RN aircraft ever produced. Research for the book took over forty years and reference material included Admiralty Archives and an array of material in the public domain including manufacturers’ data, individual aircraft pilot’s notes and a wealth of published sources. David Hobbs is uniquely well placed to write this book having served in the RN for thirty-three years and retired with the rank of Commander. He flew both fixed and rotary-wing aircraft and his log book contains 2300 flying hours with 807 day and night deck landings. He served in seven British aircraft carriers and spent four years within RN Director General (Aircraft) Department where he was closely involved with Sea Harrier carrier trials and introduced new visual landing aids for night recoveries and liaised with the USN on carrier operating techniques. This is his eleventh book for Seaforth Publishing.
Author : Charles Ferdinand Andrews
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1990
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : Steph Gillett
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445663333
Steph Gillett explores the fascinating history of aviation in the Bristol and Gloucestershire area.
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aeronautics
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Aeronautics
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Author : P.D. Stemp
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1445794233
A history of aviation pioneers and companies of Great Britain. From the early years to the modern day. A comprehensive study of old and new. Including: - Parnall - Pemberton-Billing - Percival - Sage - Saunders-Roe - Slingsby - Spartan - Taylorcraft - Tipsy - White & Thompson - Wight - to name but a few. A two hundred and seventy six page book. Individual details of some 490 aircraft. Around 436 pictures plus 134 plan diagrams.