Author: Thetford, Owen,
Title: BRITISH NAVAL AIRCRAFT SINCE 1912.
Description: Putnam, London, 1978, 4th revised edn., 480pp, half tone photo ills. and line drawings in text, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, the standard reference work on British naval aircraft in service between 1912 and 1978, covering the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps 1912-14, the Royal Naval Air Service 1914-18, the strange hybrid between the wars of the naval wings of the Royal Air Force until the Fleet Air Arm was created in 1924 gradually expanding until it took over all naval aircraft and crews in 1939, with details of every aircraft that went into service throughout those periods including description, manufacturer, power plant, dimensions, performance, armament, units to which they were allocated and brief operational history, with three-view drawings and half tone photographs of each, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges tanned, some foxing upper edge, dustwrapper: unpriced, rubbed with loss at extrems., repaired to reverse, creasing to lower panel and flap, very good in a good dustwrapper,

Keywords: british naval aircraft navy fleet air arm royal service wing ww1 ww2 carrier 43132


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