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Author: Mark Hillier Publisher: Frontline Books ISBN: 1526753022 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the programme for mobilization of the RFC was, in the main, successfully carried out. The first aircraft set out across the Channel on the morning of 13 August, taking off from Dover at 06.25 hours. The first pilot to land in France was Lieutenant H.D. Harvey-Kelly of No.2 Squadron. In due course, all four of the initial RFC squadrons deployed to the Western Front were ready for operations. They represented, noted the Official Historian of the RFC, the ‘first organized national [air] force to fly to a war overseas’. As the Great War raged, the developments in military aviation were profound, not only in terms of aerial warfare but, as this book reveals, the uniforms and equipment the aircrew used. All the objects that a Royal Flying Corps pilot or airman was issued with for sorties over the Western Front during the First World War are explored in this book in high-definition colour photographs, detailing everything from the differing flying clothing, to headgear, personal weapons, gloves, goggles and early life preservers. Each item is fully described, and its purpose and use explained. Fly with the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2s and Sopwith Camels over the trenches and see what the RFC aircrew wore as they took on their German foe in what were the formative years of military aviation.
Author: Mark Hillier Publisher: Frontline Books ISBN: 1526753022 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the programme for mobilization of the RFC was, in the main, successfully carried out. The first aircraft set out across the Channel on the morning of 13 August, taking off from Dover at 06.25 hours. The first pilot to land in France was Lieutenant H.D. Harvey-Kelly of No.2 Squadron. In due course, all four of the initial RFC squadrons deployed to the Western Front were ready for operations. They represented, noted the Official Historian of the RFC, the ‘first organized national [air] force to fly to a war overseas’. As the Great War raged, the developments in military aviation were profound, not only in terms of aerial warfare but, as this book reveals, the uniforms and equipment the aircrew used. All the objects that a Royal Flying Corps pilot or airman was issued with for sorties over the Western Front during the First World War are explored in this book in high-definition colour photographs, detailing everything from the differing flying clothing, to headgear, personal weapons, gloves, goggles and early life preservers. Each item is fully described, and its purpose and use explained. Fly with the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2s and Sopwith Camels over the trenches and see what the RFC aircrew wore as they took on their German foe in what were the formative years of military aviation.
Author: Mark Hillier Publisher: Frontline Books ISBN: 1526753006 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the programme for mobilization of the RFC was, in the main, successfully carried out. The first aircraft set out across the Channel on the morning of 13 August, taking off from Dover at 06.25 hours. The first pilot to land in France was Lieutenant H.D. Harvey-Kelly of No.2 Squadron. In due course, all four of the initial RFC squadrons deployed to the Western Front were ready for operations. They represented, noted the Official Historian of the RFC, the ‘first organized national [air] force to fly to a war overseas’. As the Great War raged, the developments in military aviation were profound, not only in terms of aerial warfare but, as this book reveals, the uniforms and equipment the aircrew used. All the objects that a Royal Flying Corps pilot or airman was issued with for sorties over the Western Front during the First World War are explored in this book in high-definition colour photographs, detailing everything from the differing flying clothing, to headgear, personal weapons, gloves, goggles and early life preservers. Each item is fully described, and its purpose and use explained. Fly with the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2s and Sopwith Camels over the trenches and see what the RFC aircrew wore as they took on their German foe in what were the formative years of military aviation.
Author: Mark Hillier Publisher: ELM Grove Publishing ISBN: 9781943492862 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
Every "dogfight", "Archie" encounter and mechanical failure is recorded in great detail in this unique early WWI flying log book, presented here in full along with extensive historical notes and photos.
Author: Arch Whitehouse Publisher: ISBN: Category : World War, 1914-1918 Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
Unofficial historian Arch Whitehouse has been fighting the air battles of World War I so voluminously over the years that by now he must have the whole mad shebang copyrighted. Back in 1914, when he was eighteen, Whitehouse burned to go to England and enlist in the British Expeditionary Force and fight the Huns. With an extra pair of socks, he caught a ship out of New York to Canada and then crossed over to Britain as a horse tender. In Britain he learned that a volunteer's lot is not an 'appy one. Enlisting in the Northhamptonshire Yeomanry, he first finds himself back tending horses, then being trained as a machine gunner. One day in France he sees a British plane shoot down a jerry and, wham, he's off wide-eyed to enlist in the Royal Flying Corps. On his first day at the aerodrome, Whitehouse is recruited as an aerial gunner and sent up in a two-seater and shoots down his first jerry. The next day he gets his second and soon the reader is practically walking on flak. Some of Whitehouse's three years in the air is hilarious, and his air battles are truly exciting.
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