Gloster Gladiator

Author: Adam Cotton
Publisher: Monograph
ISBN: 9788365437860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
The Gloster Gladiator was the very last biplane fighter to enter service with the RAF. Yet, despite being one of the fastest biplanes ever built, it was already obsolete upon its introduction to service in January 1937. Nonetheless, in the first eighteen months of WW2, it garnered many combat plaudits in the skies over the frozen Arctic, the sun-kissed Mediterranean, and the arid deserts of Africa. In Britain, it provided crucial defense of the RN Fleet anchored at Scapa Flow, and was among the first aircraft sent to France to aid the BEF. Adopted early-on by the FAA and renamed Sea Gladiator, for a time this navalized version represented the nearest thing the service had to a modern fighter as it struggled toward parity with its Axis opponents. This book tells the complete story. The text covers not only the type's remarkable operational history, but also that of Gloster's journey to its production. Also examined are the Gladiator's design and construction, and its subsequent technical development. Second-line duties and service with foreign air forces are also briefly covered. Supporting lavish artwork and 3-D exploded views vividly bring the aircraft to life, making it an ideal reference work for the modeler.

Gloster Gladiator

Author: Marek Ryś
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788366148864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Gloster Gladiator

Author: Dariusz Karnas
Publisher: Scale Plans
ISBN: 9788365281258
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 of Gloster Gladiator variants. A3 size pages in A4 pb. All subversions are shown.

Gloster Gladiator

Author: Alex Crawford
Publisher: MMP
ISBN: 9788389450593
Category : Fighter planes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Gladiator was the last biplane fighter in service with the RAF. Despite its obsolescence in 1939 it saw considerable active service in WW2, from the African desert to the snows of Finland. In this two-volume set, Alex Crawford tells the complete story of the Gladiator. Volume 1 covers the development and operational history of the aircraft, with full details of all the units which flew the Gladiator, the many foreign users, and air-to-air claims made by Gladiator pilots.

Gloster Gladiator Aces

Author: Andrew Thomas
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781841762890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Never before has a single volume been devoted exclusively to the intrepid and disparate band of pilots who could claim to be Gladiator aces. Flying the ultimate British biplane fighter, pilots in China, Finland, East Africa, North Africa, Western Europe, the Mediterranean, Norway and the Middle East all scored the prerequisite five kills to become aces. The first individuals to do so were fighting marauding Japanese fighters and bombers attacking targets in China in 1938. The likes of Sheen, Tuck and Carey will also be featured in this volume, as they were among the many early war acers who cut their teeth in Fighter Command on the Gladiator.

Fleet Air Arm Camouflage and Markings

Author: Stuart Lloyd
Publisher: Dalrymple and Verdun
ISBN: 9781905414086
Category : 2. verdenskrig
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Beskriver britiske flådeflys bemaling og camouflage i Atlanterhavs- og Middelhavsområdet i perioden 1937-1941

Chance Vought F4u Corsair

Author: Maciej Noszczak
Publisher: Topdrawings
ISBN: 9788365437815
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
In February 1938, the United States Navy opened a competition for a new fighter. His maximum speed and operational ceiling were to exceed all the machines that the American aviation had at the time. Among others, the Chance Vought company entered the competition. The Corsair was designed by a team of engineers led by Rex Beisel, the company's chief constructor. The prototype XF4U-1 was flown on May 29, 1940. The Corsair was powered by an eighteen-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp. That was the largest and the most powerful radial engine ever installed in a single-seat front fighter

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

Author: Marek Ryś
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788366673571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Although the German Me 163 Komet rocket fighter was created as a remedy for the mass air raids of the Allied air force on Germany, its origins date back to 1938. Alexander Lippisch then began work at the DFS factory on a tailless rocket-propelled aircraft, designated as DFS 194. At the beginnings of 1939, the project was handed over to the Messerschmitt factory and there it developed into the Me 163A. Two prototypes of this aircraft - V4 and V5 - were completed in 1941 and flown as gliders. Then the V4 received a Walter HWK R.II rocket engine with a thrust of 7.5 kN, and on October 2, 1941 H. Dittmar achieved a speed of 1003 km/h on mentioned plane. Thirteen Me 163As were built for training.

The Gloster Gladiator

Author: Francis K. Mason
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gladiator (Fighter plane)
Languages : da
Pages : 148

Book Description
Beskriver det engelske Gloster Gladiator fly, der stadig var operativ ved RAF i begyndelsen af 2. verdenskrig. Bogen omtaler de lande, der benyttede flyet bl.a. Finland, Norge og Sverige

Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force

Author: Air Force History Branch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1922488046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force tells the story of the RAAF’s first one hundred years by describing the acquisition, operation, and service record of the multitude of aircraft types flown by the RAAF. The 176 aircraft types include the flimsy wood and canvas aircraft typical of World War I, through the technological advances during and after World War II, to modern fifth-generation, complex aircraft like the F-35 Lightning II. Even before its formation Sir Richard Williams, the Father of the RAAF, had decided to employ an alpha-numeric numbering system to identify and account for each aircraft in service. This system started with A1, A2, A3 etc as each type of aircraft came into service. Each individual aircraft within each series was identified as A1-1, A1-2 and so on and the aircraft serial became known colloquially as the ‘A-number’. With some exceptions over the century since the A-number system started, aircraft entered RAAF service in broadly the sequence of the A-numbers, and so this book is intended to assist in charting the 100-year history of the RAAF by listing aircraft operated in A-number sequence, rather than by listing them by role (such as Fighter, Bomber, Maritime, Trainer, Transport etc) or alphabetically by name or by manufacturer. The inclusion of a comprehensive Index and the Quick Reference Guide to aircraft by role is intended to facilitate the location of the entry for any specific type of aircraft for those who may not already know its A-number. Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force is a must have for all those who have served in the RAAF, those with a passion for military aviation and aircraft in general, and the broader members of the public wishing to gain an appreciation of the Royal Australian Air Force in its centenary year.