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From Nighthawk to Spitfire: The Aircraft of R.J.Mitchell

Categorie	Vliegtuigen & Luchtvaart
Boeknummer	#214788
Titel	From Nighthawk to Spitfire: The Aircraft of R.J.Mitchell
Auteur	Shelton, John K.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	The History Press
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	0750962224
ISBN13	9780750962223
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	R. J. Mitchell was virtually self-taught; surprisingly, almost all his other aircraft 24 aircraft were slow-flying seaplanes. How a lad from the land-locked Midlands, apprenticed to a locomotive works, came to be responsible for the Spitfire is a great tale in itself. This detailed book tells us how Mitchell learned his trade – from 1916, contributing to the production of the cumbersome Nighthawk, designed to combat the German Zepplin threat, and gradually coming to produce record-breaking racing floatplanes which in 1931 won outright the prestigious international Schneider Trophy. Mitchell was thus well placed to design a high speed aircraft when war began to threaten, but Dr Shelton reveals the production of the famous fighter was by no means a certainty and how, indeed, its vita... (Lees verder)l contribution to winning the Battle of Britain was "a very close run thing'.
Pagina's	207
Conditie	Nieuw
Prijs	€ 10,00

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