Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-57.
First Edition 1957.
Putman Press.
From the Preface: “Now that the Royal Air Force has come to be recognized as Great Britain’s first line of defence and will soon attain its fortieth anniversary it is only appropriate that some attempt should be made to gather between the covers of a single volume all the relevant data, both technical and historical, on the bewildering variety of aircraft which have served in its squadrons and training units through the years. The present volume seeks to provide what is virtually an encyclopedia of aircraft which have served with the Royal Air Force since its formation On 1 April 1918 to the present day, 1957.
The emphasis
throughout the work is on aircraft which have served in numbers with the R.A.F.
(even if only in small numbers) and no prototype or purely experimental aircraft
are included. Exceptions to this general rule are the various record-breaking
aircraft which have made notable contributions to R.A.F. history and several
contemporary types which have been ordered for development trials and for which
a future R.A.F. career is highly probable. In the first category come the Fairey
Long Range Monoplane, the Schneider Trophy racing seaplanes and the Bristol 138A
high-altitude monoplane. Examples of the second category are the English
Electric P-I supersonic fighter and the Hunting Percival Jet Provost.”
With an interesting four half page introduction note.
528 pages.
Nearly 200 three-view line drawings by L.E.Bradford.
Black and white photographs.
Table of contents:
Preface
Introductory Note
Airspeed
Armstrong Whitworth
Auster
Avro
Beech
Bell
Blackburn
Boeing
Boulton Paul
Brewster
Bristol
British Taylorcraft
Consolidated
Curtiss
de Havilland
Douglas
English Electric
Fairchild
Fairey
Felixstowe
Folland
Gloster
Handley Page
Hawker
Hunting Percival
Lockheed
Martin
Miles
Nieuport
North American
Northrop
Percival
Republic
Saro
Scottish Aviation
Short
Sikorsky
Sopwith
Superman tic
Vickers
Vultee
Westland
Westland-Sikorsky
Appendix ‘A’
Appendix ‘B’
Index
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