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Knights of the Skies: Armour Protection for British Fighting Aeroplanes
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- Condition
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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- ISBN
- 9781871187502
- Book Title
- Knights of the Skies : Armour Protection for British Fighting Aeroplanes
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Crecy Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History
- Topic
- Military Science, Military / Aviation, Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 16.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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In June 1940 Billy Drake was shot down in his Hurricane over France. A German cannon shell exploded behind his head, but he survived thanks to a sheet of armor. Had he been shot down a few weeks earlier he would have been killed, because armor was considered unnecessary'. At the start of the First World War armor had also been considered unnecessary', its weight reduced the performance of the underpowered aircraft too much, but some pilots and squadrons made and fitted their own protection. By 1918 the view of the Air Ministry had changed and it commissioned designs for an armored Trench Fighter' that must have a fully armored cockpit v lessons had been learned, but the price in pilots killed had been high. Between the wars performance again became the primary concern and the lessons of the First War were forgotten. So it was that the Hurricane squadrons went to France with no rear armor; and no front armor either. Soon every RAF combat aircraft was fitted with armor, saving hundreds of lives. In this carefully researched book Michael Cox takes the reader through the development of aircraft armor from 1910 to 1945, using the stories of pilots to illustrate how vital it could be. The technology and aircraft design is also examined, with little known aircraft as the Sopwith Salamander' and Farnborough Ram' playing an important role.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crecy Publishing
ISBN-10
1871187508
ISBN-13
9781871187502
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54346744
Product Key Features
Book Title
Knights of the Skies : Armour Protection for British Fighting Aeroplanes
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Military Science, Military / Aviation, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Ug633
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
623.746049
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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