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 :

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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

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

Japanese Submarine Aircraft

Author: Ryusuke Ishiguro
Publisher: MMP
ISBN: 9788366549562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
This is the second edition of the first English language book to describe in detail the aircraft carried by Japan's extensive submarine fleet in World War Two. More than any other nation, Japan designed, built and operated aircraft launched from submarines, using them for reconnaissance and also (uniquely) for bombing and attack missions. This fascinating history of an under-published aspect of World War Two aviation warfare is illustrated with photographs, scale plans and full color illustrations, including those of the preserved Seiran. This book includes 200 photographs (many of which have not been published before) and 30 color profiles (plus top and bottom views of representative aircraft).

The Grand Designers

Author: John D. Anderson Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108340563
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
The airplane has experienced phenomenal advancement in the twentieth century, changing at an exponential rate from the Wright brothers to the present day. In this ground breaking work based on new research, Dr John D. Anderson, Jr, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, analyzes the historical development of the conceptual design process of the airplane. He aims to answer the question of whether airplane advancement has been driven by a parallel advancement in the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design. In doing so, Anderson identifies and examines six case histories of 'grand designers' in this field, and challenges some of the preconceived notions of how the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design advanced. Filled with over one hundred illustrations which bring his words to life, Anderson unfolds the lives and thoughts of these grand designers.

The Desert Campaigns

Author: William Thomas Massey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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On Silver Wings

Author: Alec Lumsden
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781855323742
Category : Airplanes, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The Golden Age of the RAF, the period between the wars, produced a series of elegant and highly nimble biplane fighter aircraft that laid down the foundation for the world famous Spitfire and Hurricane fighters of World War II. This reference source uses a series of articles run over the previous two years in Aeroplane Monthly as a base to describe the British fighter aircraft of this highly colourful period. It profiles all ten fighter types that entered service in Britain in the 20 years between the wars, detailing both the types' service history and full technical development and specification.