Supermarine Seafire F.XV,F.XVII,F.45,F.46,F.47 and Seafang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supermarine Seafire F.XV,F.XVII,F.45,F.46,F.47 and Seafang write by kev darling. This book was released on 2010-02. Supermarine Seafire F.XV,F.XVII,F.45,F.46,F.47 and Seafang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Griffon engined Seafires were developed using two wing planforms. The first versions, F.XV and F.XVII, retained the earlier type wing while the F.40 series utilised that adopted by the RAF's F.20 series of fighter. Used mainly by the Royal Navy the type was also flown by Burma, Canada and France. The Seafire FR.47 also saw service in the Korean War.
They Gave me a Seafire
They Gave me a Seafire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook They Gave me a Seafire write by Commander R 'Mike' Crosley DSC RN. This book was released on 2014-08-06. They Gave me a Seafire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A classic in every sense of the word, the re-issuing of this book is sure to provoke an enthusiastic response. First published in 1986 by Airlife, its publishing history has seen a great number of glowing reviews generated, coming from both historians and participants in the proceedings that the author so eloquently relays.??The book charts Crosley's service career in the Fleet Air Arm during the entire period of the Second World War. Part of his service saw him in action aboard HMS Eagle, flying Sea Hurricanes on the Harpoon and Pedestal Malta convoys of June and August 1942. It was during this time that he shot down his first enemy aircraft and survived the dramatic sinking of HMS Eagle. From there he graduated on to Seafires, (the Naval equivalent of the Spitfire), and flew this type in Combat Air Patrols over Norway and ramrod strikes from Operation Torch (the invasion of French North Africa in November 1942), through to D-Day in June 1944 in the European Theatre of Operations, and then in the Pacific abroad HMS Implacable as part of the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 until the end of the Pacific War, by which time he had command of his own combined squadron, 801 and 880.??The narrative is well written in a frank and often scathingly critical way of Fleet Air Arm operations during the Second World War and beyond. The book looks set to bring the endeavours of Crosley to a whole new generation of enthusiasts, and it should appeal across the board to fans of aviation, naval history and families and friends of Armed Forces, past and present.
Supermarine Spitfire MK. XII-24, Supermarine Seafire MK.I-47
Supermarine Spitfire MK. XII-24, Supermarine Seafire MK.I-47 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supermarine Spitfire MK. XII-24, Supermarine Seafire MK.I-47 write by Richard Ward. This book was released on 1969. Supermarine Spitfire MK. XII-24, Supermarine Seafire MK.I-47 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Supermarine Seafire XVII to Douglas DC-10
From Supermarine Seafire XVII to Douglas DC-10 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Supermarine Seafire XVII to Douglas DC-10 write by Ronald Williams. This book was released on 2012-05-19. From Supermarine Seafire XVII to Douglas DC-10 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ron Williams flying career started in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve which he joined for his National Service in the 1950s. Having completed this he became a civilian pilot and embarked on a career that would see him flying an amazing variety of aircraft in all parts of the world.His first operational naval aircraft was the Seafire XVII, a direct descendent of the Spitfire. This aircraft was capable of 480 knots, and it was during his first solo flight in one that he very nearly killed himself trying to achieve that speed. Luckily he escaped unharmed but much chastened. Whilst serving with the RNVR he also went solo on the Hawker Sea Fury, the worlds fastest piston engine at that time, and also the jet powered Attacker.Having obtained his civilian pilots licence he commenced flying DC-3s for Cambrian Airways around the UK and Europe. He then moved to a charter airline, Independent Air Travel flying the Vickers Viking, then to BlueAir flying DC-4s to Hong Kong and the Far-East. Next came Airwork based in Adelaide, still on DC-4s. A return to the UK saw him flying the Bristol Freighter from Southend Airport to the near Continent carrying passengers and their cars.Tragedy nearly struck when he was attempting to deliver a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer from Southend to the Cape Verde Islands. One of the legs of this flight entailed a stop-over on Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands. Having elected to fly at night the small twin-engined aircraft hit bad weather and became lost. Unable to make radio contact and running out of fuel he was forced to ditch into the Atlantic in the eye of a hurricane. A Spanish fishing boat was fortunately to hand and rescued Ron, his co-pilot and single passenger.A move to Eire and Air Lingus followed, captaining Boeing 707s to New York and other American cities. Then came Cathay Pacific flying the Convair 880, British Airways flying BAC 1-11s and finally a twenty year stint with British Caledonian flying DC-10s. This airline was eventually merged with British Airways.This book explains many of the practical and technical aspects of commercial flight and also the pleasurable side of Rons enforced nomadic lifestyle. The story covers commercial flight from its early post-war piston-powered infancy to current airline technology and methods.
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945 write by Christopher Shores. This book was released on 2018-11-05. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fourth volume in the comprehensive series “fills a gap in the existing narrative” of WWII’s Mediterranean air war (Journal of Military History). The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement, increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail. This is essentially the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in northwest France. With regards to the long-range tactical role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to October is examined, while they remained based in North Africa, with the narrative continuing in a future volume. This volume also delves into the story of “the soldiers’ air force.” Frequently overshadowed by more immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, the soldiers’ struggle was often of an equally Homeric nature. “No future publication on the Mediterranean air war will be credible without use of this series.” —Air Power History
