British Naval Aircraft since 1912

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Produced as a companion volume to the author's Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918, this present work is recognised as the standard reference on the history of British naval aircraft. It describes and illustrates every aircraft ever flown in regular service by the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.
This new and extensively revised edition contains over 400 photographs and 114 three-view generál arrangement drawings. It includes all the latest Royal Navy aircraft such as the Phantom F.G. 1, the Buccaneer S. 2, the Sea King H.A.S. i? the Lynx H.A.S. 1 and others. In reviewing six decades of naval aviation it alsó gives extended coverage and full data on such classic carrier-borne aircraft as the Fly-catcher (jacket illustration), IIIF, Nimród, Shark, Walrus, Swordfish, Albacore, Barracuda, Firefly, Sea Fury, Gannet, Sea Hawk, Scimitar and Sea Vixen, to name but a few. Classic American aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm such as... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Produced as a companion volume to the author's Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918, this present work is recognised as the standard reference on the history of British naval aircraft. It describes and illustrates every aircraft ever flown in regular service by the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.
This new and extensively revised edition contains over 400 photographs and 114 three-view generál arrangement drawings. It includes all the latest Royal Navy aircraft such as the Phantom F.G. 1, the Buccaneer S. 2, the Sea King H.A.S. i? the Lynx H.A.S. 1 and others. In reviewing six decades of naval aviation it alsó gives extended coverage and full data on such classic carrier-borne aircraft as the Fly-catcher (jacket illustration), IIIF, Nimród, Shark, Walrus, Swordfish, Albacore, Barracuda, Firefly, Sea Fury, Gannet, Sea Hawk, Scimitar and Sea Vixen, to name but a few. Classic American aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm such as the Wildcat, Hellcat and Avenger are alsó included.
As an illustrated introduction, there is included a useful potted history of the develop-ment of British naval aviation and the evolution of deck-flying from the earliest tentative experiments to such inventions as the angled deck, steam catapults and mirror landing aids, all British inventions. Appendices contain descriptions and illustrations of lighter-than-air aircraft (known as 'blimps') of the R.N.A.S. between 1914 and 1918, the rigid airships R.9 to R.34 and details of all the aircraft carriers and other ships which have ever embarked fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters, from H.M.S. Africa of 1912 to the most recent cruiser conversions such as H.M.S. Tiger.
Jacket photo: A Fairey Flycatcher, the leading Fleet Air Arm carrier-borne fighter from 1924 to 1934, over H.M.S. Eagle. Vissza