The Fairey Barracuda
The Fairey Barracuda

Author: Matthew Willis

Publisher: MMP

Published: 2017-01-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788365281241

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The Fairey Barracuda was the first monoplane torpedo bomber operated by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. The Barracuda experienced a difficult birth and development during the Second World War, and this, added to a number of fatal crashes, led to a poor reputation which the aircraft would never truly shake. Despite this, the Barracuda proved highly successful in service, carrying out raids against the Tirpitz, and against Japanese forces in the East Indies that contributed greatly to the war effort. It also undertook a variety of less well known roles, and remained in Fleet Air Arm service into the 1950s. This new book by naval aviation historian Matthew Willis contains an extensive history and technical description of the Barracuda, drawing from a wide range of archive materials and accounts from the men who flew and operated the aircraft in service, together with over 100 photographs, many never before published. Scale plans and color profiles also included.

Wings of the Navy
Wings of the Navy

Author: Eric 'Winkle' Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781902109329

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"Carrier aircraft, since their beginning, have been a very special kind of machine and demand something equally special of a pilot. Being catapulted over a plunging bow, finding a lone ship at night in thousands of miles of empty ocean, and landing on the pitching, bucking deck of an aircraft carrier, is the routine of a naval pilot. Both shipboard aircraft, and their aircrew, need to be something exceptional. ... Through one of the most extraordinary careers in flying, Eric Brown tested and recorded the flying characteristics of an unparalleled range of naval aircraft ..."--Back cover.

Barracuda
Barracuda

Author: Robert McCandless

Publisher: Anchor Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780946958788

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Fairey Flycatcher
Fairey Flycatcher

Author: Matthew Willis

Publisher: Orange

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788363678920

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The Fairey Flycatcher was the archetypal between-the-wars Fleet Air Arm fighter. The idiosyncratic biplane was loved by crews and public alike, and it was famed more for its aerobatic prowess and public demonstrations than glory on the field of battle. The Flycatcher was agile yet forgiving, tough, reliable, and fully aerobatic, and, bedecked in a

Bismarck
Bismarck

Author: Iain Ballantyne

Publisher: Ipso Books

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1504059158

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With extensive eyewitness accounts, the author of Killing the Bismarck vividly reconstructs the day British soldiers sank the infamous Nazi battleship. May 26, 1941. After a desperate chase lasting three days and more than seventeen hundred miles, Britain’s Home Fleet would finally close in on the world’s most powerful battleship, the very ship that sank the Royal Navy’s battlecruiser HMS Hood. The German battleship Bismarck was literally in a class by itself, being one of two newly-designed Bismarck-class ships in the German fleet. But it would soon face, and ultimately lose, a brutal fight to the finish involving more than five thousand men of the Royal Navy and twenty-six thousand men of Hitler’s Kriegsmarine. Historian Iain Ballantyne spent years conducting interviews with surviving veterans who had been present on that fateful day. Published here for the first time, alongside a compelling narrative of the final twenty-four hours of the mission to sink the Bismarck, are transcripts of those interviews, offering the unique eyewitness accounts of Royal Navy sailors who participated in one of the most significant sea battles of World War II.

Wings on My Sleeve
Wings on My Sleeve

Author: Eric Brown

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2008-09-18

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0297856901

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The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history. In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. During his lifetime he made a record-breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and survived eleven plane crashes. One of Britain's few German-speaking airmen, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. WINGS ON MY SLEEVE is 'Winkle' Brown's incredible story.

Gentlemen and Tarpaulins
Gentlemen and Tarpaulins

Author: Andrew Davies

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780198202639

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This is the first scholarly study of the Royal Navy during the reigns of Charles II and James II. Historians have long viewed the Restoration Navy through the eyes of Samuel Pepys, the greatest diarist and naval administrator of the age. Perceptive and intelligent as Pepys was, he presentedonly a one-sided view of the Navy, that of a bureaucrat attempting to reorganize it. J. D. Davies assesses this traditional picture of the Restoration Navy in the light of recent scholarship, using the evidence not only of Pepys but of his contemporaries. He examines the reactions of naval personnel to the demands imposed by Pepys, and analyses the structure of the service. Healso explores the lives and attitudes of the men (the `tarpaulins') and their officers - the quests for promotion, enrichment, and glory; the very different problems posed by peace and war; the nature of life at sea; and the role of the Navy in national life. Gentlemen and Tarpaulins provides afascinating glimpse into the history of the Royal Navy.

Fairey Barracuda
Fairey Barracuda

Author: DARIUSZ. KARNAS

Publisher:

Published: 2022-06-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9788366549869

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This book contains 8, A3 size scale plans in 1/48 and 1/72 scale of the British WW2 torpedo aircraft Fairey Barracuda.