Author: Smithies, Edward (compiled by),
Title: WAR IN THE AIR - Men and Women Who Built, Serviced and Flew War Planes Remember the Second World War.
Description: Viking, London, 1990, 1st edn., xxx, 306pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, compiled from interviews with over 250 of those involved, anecdotes from behind the scenes of the RAF from the people who designed, built, serviced and flew the aircraft ennabling the Royal Air Force to continue to function, narratives from aircrew and groundstaff from many situations, from an army cooperation squadron of reconnnaisance Lysanders in 1940 France to once out of France acting in an air-sea rescuie capacity from RAF Manston, carrying smoke floats and dinghies to drop to those aircrew in the water (pages 14-21). Fascinating glimpses of the little known aspects behind the scenes, for example the animosity between the Supermarine Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell and Vickers chief designer, Barnes Wallis (Wellington and bouncing bomb designer) after Vickers bought Supermarine and put Barnes Wallis in charge (page 4); and from the inventor Jimmie Martin, half of the inventor team of the later Martin Baker ejection seat, who designed a quick release mechanism to overcome the problem of the jammimg of the sliding hood of a Spitfire, who when he went to the Supermarine team at Castle Bromwich was told to take his ideas elsewhere (page 100/101); on another occasion a firefight between the Coldstream Guards who were protecting RAF Northolt airfield and members of the Polish 303 squadron, when the Guards attempted to stop drunken Poles from entering the airfield a guardsman was knocked down, his rifle seized and the Poles opened fire on his colleagues which led to a brief firefight resulting in three casualties, subsequently 'hushed up' (page 188), a collection of many personal memories of mainly non-combat events, tanning to edges, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww2 home front air force raf factory workers fire watching home guard munitions
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Title: WAR IN THE AIR - Men and Women Who Built, Serviced and Flew War Planes Remember the Second World War.
Description: Viking, London, 1990, 1st edn., xxx, 306pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, compiled from interviews with over 250 of those involved, anecdotes from behind the scenes of the RAF from the people who designed, built, serviced and flew the aircraft ennabling the Royal Air Force to continue to function, narratives from aircrew and groundstaff from many situations, from an army cooperation squadron of reconnnaisance Lysanders in 1940 France to once out of France acting in an air-sea rescuie capacity from RAF Manston, carrying smoke floats and dinghies to drop to those aircrew in the water (pages 14-21). Fascinating glimpses of the little known aspects behind the scenes, for example the animosity between the Supermarine Spitfire designer R. J. Mitchell and Vickers chief designer, Barnes Wallis (Wellington and bouncing bomb designer) after Vickers bought Supermarine and put Barnes Wallis in charge (page 4); and from the inventor Jimmie Martin, half of the inventor team of the later Martin Baker ejection seat, who designed a quick release mechanism to overcome the problem of the jammimg of the sliding hood of a Spitfire, who when he went to the Supermarine team at Castle Bromwich was told to take his ideas elsewhere (page 100/101); on another occasion a firefight between the Coldstream Guards who were protecting RAF Northolt airfield and members of the Polish 303 squadron, when the Guards attempted to stop drunken Poles from entering the airfield a guardsman was knocked down, his rifle seized and the Poles opened fire on his colleagues which led to a brief firefight resulting in three casualties, subsequently 'hushed up' (page 188), a collection of many personal memories of mainly non-combat events, tanning to edges, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww2 home front air force raf factory workers fire watching home guard munitions
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- Book number: 39612
- Book number: 39612
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