Author: Kev DarlingPublisher: Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This well-researched and readable book tells the full story of these important aircraft.
Hawker Typhoon, Tempest and Sea Fury
Author: Kev DarlingPublisher: Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This well-researched and readable book tells the full story of these important aircraft.
Hawker Typhoon And Tempest
Author: Philip BirtlesPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
With the technology of the Hurricane being at the end of the biplane combat aircraft era, there was an urgent requirement for a modern fighter with a capability ahead of the anticipated German fighter development for the Luftwaffe. The Hawker design team lead by Sydney Camm created the all-metal stressed skin structure Typhoon powered by the revolutionary Napier Sabre engine. Whereas the Hurricane had been developed in peacetime, the Typhoon was designed in wartime, when the urgency of the programme caused the development of both the airframe and engine to be accelerated, resulting in teething troubles not being fully solved when the aircraft entered service with the RAF. The much improved Tempest used the same engine and basic fuselage with thinner lamina flow wings, giving improved performance at altitude, and allowing the destruction of the V1s at low altitude. Both aircraft made a significant impact on the victory by the Allies in WW2, although their low level ground attack missions were extremely hazardous, and resulted in high pilot losses.
The Typhoon & Tempest Story
Author: Chris ThomasPublisher: Arms & Armour
ISBN: 9780853688785
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Typhoon Pilot
Author: Desmond ScottPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473820014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A decorated WWII flying ace and Royal Air Force Group Captain recounts his experience in the air over Europe in this thrilling military memoir. New Zealand fighter pilot Desmond Scott joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. Over the course of his illustrious service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, and a Distinguished Service Order. For the heroic act of rescuing a pilot from a crashed Supermarine Spitfire, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In Typhoon Pilot, Scott recounts his time as a young commander of a New Zealand Air Force squadron, and later as the RAF's youngest Group Captain at the age of 25. His story includes conflict in the air over Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany, where the Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber fought its last battle.
Hawker Tempest and Sea Fury
Author: Robert JacksonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713716849
Category : Sea Fury (Fighter plane)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Fighters of World War II
Author: Charles William CainPublisher:
ISBN: 9780896730267
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Hawker Sea Fury
Author: Kev DarlingPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0955984017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Hawker Sea Fury was the final piston engine fighter produced by the company. Developed from the earlier Tempest this aircraft served with distinction over Korea being flown by RN and RAN pilots. This book covers the story of the type and is well illustrated using photographs and diagrams.
The Hawker Typhoon and Tempest
Author: Francis K. MasonPublisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780946627196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Illustrated Directory of Fighting Aircraft of World War II
Author: Bill GunstonPublisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 9780760307229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Specs for more than 160 aircraft, with illustrations and period photos to detail paint schemes. Ideal for scale and R/C modelers.
Wings on My Sleeve
Author: Eric BrownPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297856901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history. In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. During his lifetime he made a record-breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and survived eleven plane crashes. One of Britain's few German-speaking airmen, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. WINGS ON MY SLEEVE is 'Winkle' Brown's incredible story.