The Fleet Air Arm and Royal Naval Air Service in 100 Objects - 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 The Fleet Air Arm and Royal Naval Air Service in 100 Objects write by David Morris. This book was released on 2019-08-15. The Fleet Air Arm and Royal Naval Air Service in 100 Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Delving in to the official archives of the Fleet Air Arm Museum and the wider National Museum of the Royal Navy, David Morris tells their incredible story through a selection of significant objects.
British Naval Aviation
British Naval Aviation - 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 British Naval Aviation write by Tim Benbow. This book was released on 2016-05-23. British Naval Aviation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its rapid expansion and evolution radically altered the nature of maritime power and naval strategy. Drawing on much new historical research, the collection takes a broadly chronological approach which allows a scholarly examination of key themes from across the history of British naval aviation. The subjects tackled include long-standing controversies over the control of naval air power, crucial turning points within British defence policy and strategy, the role of naval aviation in limited war, and discussion of campaigns - such the contribution of the Fleet Air Arm in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of the Second World War - that have hitherto received relatively little attention. The collection concludes with a discussion of recent debates surrounding the Royal Navy's acquisition of a new generation of carriers, setting the arguments within an historical context. Taken as a whole the volume offers fascinating insights into the development of a key aspect of naval power as well as shedding new light on one of the most important aspects of Britain's defence policy and military history. By simultaneous addressing historical and current political debates, it is sure to find a ready audience and stimulate further discussion.
Fleet Air Arm in Camera
Fleet Air Arm in Camera - 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 Fleet Air Arm in Camera write by Roger Hayward. This book was released on 1998-06. Fleet Air Arm in Camera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the series IN CAMERA, this is a collection of photographs of the Fleet Air Arm, illustrating the activities, ships and aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm and its predecessor the Royal Naval Air Service. Collection begins pre-First World War and goes through to the mid 1990's.
The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War
The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War - 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 The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War write by David Hobbs. This book was released on 2017-09-30. The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a few short years after 1914 the Royal Navy practically invented naval air warfare, not only producing the first effective aircraft carriers, but also pioneering most of the techniques and tactics that made naval air power a reality. By 1918 the RN was so far ahead of other navies that a US Navy observer sent to study the British use of aircraft at sea concluded that any discussion of the subject must first consider their methods. Indeed, by the time the war ended the RN was training for a carrier-borne attack by torpedo-bombers on the German fleet in its bases over two decades before the first successful employment of this tactic, against the Italians at Taranto.Following two previously well-received histories of British naval aviation, David Hobbs here turns his attention to the operational and technical achievements of the Royal Naval Air Service, both at sea and ashore, from 1914 to 1918. Detailed explanations of operations, the technology that underpinned them and the people who carried them out bring into sharp focus a revolutionary period of development that changed naval warfare forever. Controversially, the RNAS was subsumed into the newly created Royal Air Force in 1918, so as the centenary of its extinction approaches, this book is a timely reminder of its true significance.
The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939–1945
The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939–1945 - 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 The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939–1945 write by David Hobbs. This book was released on 2022-03-30. The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939–1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive history of the Royal Navy’s naval aviation component’s campaigns during World War II. For the first time, this book tells the story of how naval air operations evolved into a vital element of the Royal Navy’s ability to fight a three-dimensional war against both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. An integral part of RN, the Fleet Air Arm was not a large organization, with only 406 pilots and 232 front-line aircraft available for operations in September 1939. Nevertheless, its impact far outweighed its numbers—it was an RN fighter that shot down the first enemy aircraft of the war, and an RN pilot was the first British fighter “ace” with 5 or more kills. The Fleet Air Arm’s rollcall of achievements in northern waters went on to include the Norwegian Campaign, the crippling of Bismarck, the gallant sortie against Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as they passed through the Channel, air attacks on enemy E-boats in the narrow seas, air cover for the Russian convoys, air attacks that disabled Tirpitz, and strikes and minelaying operations against German shipping in the Norwegian littoral that continued until May 1945. By the end of the war in Europe the FAA had grown to 3243 pilots and 1336 aircraft. This book sets all these varied actions within their proper naval context and both technical and tactical aspects are explained with “thumbnail” descriptions of aircraft, their weapons and avionics. Cross reference with the Fleet Air Arm Roll of Honour has been made for the first time to put names to those aircrew killed in action wherever possible as a mark of respect for their determination against enemy forces on, above and below the sea surface which more often than not outnumbered them. The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe completes David Hobbs’s much-praised six-volume series chronicling the operational history of British naval aviation from the earliest days to the present. Praise for The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe “In this masterly addition to his series on the Fleet Air Arm at war, David Hobbs addresses naval air operations in the Atlantic, the North Sea, the Arctic, and the English Channel.” —Professor Andrew Lambert, Warship 2023 “With lots of action it rattles along and is a very good read.” —The Armourer Magazine, May 2022
