Dimensions
160 x 240 x 35mm
Fighter Aircraft Combat Debuts From 1914-1944
This is a book about beginnings, some more famous than others, and about the men who took new aircraft into combat for the first time. Aircraft reputations were often cruel and slow in the making. Look behind those reputations to discover the truth about the introduction and later development of many familiar names. It includes cockpit accounts of aerial combat techniques, always changing to match the power and technology available, and features - among many aircraft - such stalwarts as the Sopwith F I Camel, 1917; the Fiat C R 32, 1936; the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, 1939-40; the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1942; and the Grumman F6F Hellcat, 1943.
This is the often surprising story of the combat debut of famous fighter aircraft, from the first victory of an RFC BE2A in 1914 through to the Gloster Meteor and the Messerschmitt Me-262 of 1944 - 30 years of fantastic development in fighter design.
Includes 35 black-and-white photographs.
