Author: Royal Flying CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Author: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Author: Patrick Ellam
Author: Great Britain. Royal Air ForceRoyal Flying Corps Technical Notes
Author: Patrick EllamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781450299480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is a reprint of the plans and specification to the gnome engine planes from a worn book used by the author's father, Lieutenant Frederick Ellam of the royal flying Corps. It is in part a tribute to the daring, the curiosity and courage of the early pilots. My father was a pilot in the first World War and left me these facts and pictures. They contain all the details needed for a person to build one of them today, either as a radio controlled model or a full scale one, built of spruce, with a small modern engine. The author is offering to facilitate organizing individuals expressing an interest in building and perhaps flying a replica of the 1916 plane. The author, himself a 40 year pilot, recalls one day landing on a bank of clouds to see what the clouds were made of. He turned off the engine and let the plane fall through only to realize that clouds are made of fog!
Author: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Author: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Author: harrison and sonsRoyal Flying Corps Kitbag
Author: Mark HillierPublisher: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526753006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A complete guide to the WWI uniforms and equipment of RFC pilots and airmen—fully illustrated with color photos. When the First World War began in 1914, the newly formed Royal Flying Corps was put to the ultimate test. As the Great War raged, the developments in military aviation were profound, not only in terms of aerial warfare, but also—as this book reveals—in the uniforms and equipment the aircrew used. All the objects that a Royal Flying Corps pilot or airman was issued for sorties over the Western Front are explored in this book. Amply illustrated with high-definition color photographs, it details everything from clothing and headgear to personal weapons, gloves, goggles and early life preservers. Each item is fully described, and its purpose and use explained.
Author: Great Britain. Air Ministry