Kites, Birds & Stuff - FAIREY Aircraft

Author: P.D. Stemp
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446618242
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
Fairey Aircraft - One of the early manufacturers of Great Britain, during the 20th. Century. A comprehensive study of this British manufacturer.

Furies and Fireflies Over Korea

Author: Graham Thomas
Publisher: Grub Street the Basement
ISBN: 9781904010043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the UN Security Council called on its members to act and 16 nations did, with Britain sending aircraft carriers such as HMS Truimph, from which piston engined Sea Fury fighters and Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers operated.This is the story of the British and Australian Fleet Ari Arm pilots and their missions over hoistile territory, missions carried out with distinction and honor.

Fairey Firefly in Action

Author: W. A. Harrison
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications
ISBN: 9780897475013
Category : Fairey aircraft
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Fairey Firefly was a British WWII naval fighter that served in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. These more advanced naval aircraft superceded the older Fairey Fulmars. The Firefly remained in British Service well into the mid-1950s, while the book includes many of the Firefly variants: the F.1, F.1A, FR.1, NF.1, T.1, TT.1, NF.2, T.2, F.3, T.3, FR.4, TT.4, NF.4, FR.5, NF.5, AS.5, T.5, TT.5, AS.6, TT.6, AS/T.7, T.7D, U.7, T.8, U.8, and U.9. This book also looks at Firefly operations in the WWII Pacific Theater, as well as during the Malayan and Korean conflicts. Fireflies also served with several other British Colonial and Allied forces.

Canadian Warplanes

Author: Harold A. Skaarup
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440167583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642

Book Description
This aviation handbook is designed to be used as a quick reference to the classic military heritage aircraft that have been flown by members of the Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and the present-day Canadian Forces. The interested reader will find useful information and a few technical details on most of the military aircraft that have been in service with active Canadian squadrons both at home and overseas. 100 selected photographs have been included to illustrate a few of the major examples in addition to the serial numbers assigned to Canadian service aircraft. For those who like to actually see the aircraft concerned, aviation museum locations, addresses and contact phone numbers have been included, along with a list of aircraft held in each museum's current inventory or on display as gate guardians throughout Canada and overseas. The aircraft presented in this edition are listed alphabetically by manufacturer, number and type. Although many of Canada's heritage warplanes have completely disappeared, a few have been carefully collected, restored and preserved, and some have even been restored to flying condition. This guide-book should help you to find and view Canada's Warplane survivors.

On Canadian Wings

Author: Peter Pigott
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 155002549X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Whether you are an aviation enthusiast, history buff, or air traveller, don't miss the third in a series of photo essays on aviation in Canada, covering almost 100 years of flight by Canadians. Dramatic visuals accompany each step of aviation's advances, from Canada's first military aircraft to the Harvard II, from the earliest bush planes to the Bombardier Global Express. This comprehensive history showcases 50 aircraft. Whether famous or forgotten, all were designed, built, and/or flown by Canadians.

The Aeroplane

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932

Book Description

The Fleet Air Arm

Author: Malcolm Smith
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783830832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503

Book Description
The author Malcolm Smith has been the Editor of Jabberwock, the bi-annual journal of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, for two years and has inherited the complete archive of editions dating back to the formation of SOFFAAM in 1979. In browsing through these, it quickly became apparent to him that they provided a unique archive of reminiscence of the men and (occasionally) women who served in, or have been associated with, the Fleet Air Arm since its formation in 1918. The Fleet Air Arm were the branch of the British Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft, and its history is a varied one as these accounts attest.The Royal Navy, in common with the other armed services, expanded enormously during the Second World War, so anecdotes from this period naturally predominate. To illustrate the varied experiences of the contributors, these are grouped into War in the West and War in the East. Whether drawn from peace or war, however, what emerges from these pages is a particular spirit, peculiar to the Fleet Air Arm and reflecting its somewhat hybrid nature; a spirit derived from a high level of professional competence combined with a certain irreverence towards Authority.

Spreading My Wings

Author: Diana Barnato Walker
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1908117656
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
The remarkable autobiography of a pioneering female aviator who left a privileged life to serve in World War II. Her father was a millionaire race-car driver who became chairman of Bentley Motors, and her grandfather cofounded the De Beers mining company. But by the late 1930s, debutante Diana Barnato had enough of her affluent, chaperoned existence and sought excitement in flying—soloing at Brooklands after only six hours’ training. Joining the Air Transport Auxiliary in 1941 to help ferry aircraft to squadrons and bases throughout the country, she flew scores of different aircraft—fighters, bombers, and trainers—in all kinds of conditions, and without a radio. By 1945, Barnato had lost many friends, a fiancé, and a husband—but she continued to fly. In 1962 she was awarded the Jean Lennox Bird Trophy for notable achievement in aviation, but her greatest moment was yet to come, when in 1963 she flew a Lightning through the sound barrier, becoming “the fastest woman in the world.” Spreading My Wings is her remarkable memoir, brimming with history and adventure.

Surviving Fighter Aircraft of World War Two

Author: Don Berliner
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1848842651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
This is a guide to the existing WWII aircraft to be found in aviation museums throughout the world. Each DPS contains a colour photo of an example of the aircraft as viewed in an aviation museum, examples of different marks and a textual resume of the type with statistics.

Confidential Documents

Author: United States. Army Air Forces
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description