Pen and Sword, 2014. — 270 p. In this riveting critique of the Fleet Air Arm's policy across two world wars, former FAA Fighter Pilot Henry Adlam charts the course of its history from 1912 to 1945, logging the various milestones, mistakes and successes that characterized the service history of the Fleet Air Arm. Offering criticism on the service hierarchies that made up the...
Canelo Digital Publishing, 2018. — 383 p. A riveting true life account of a Royal Navy serviceman on board an aircraft carrier. 14th June, 1982: The Argentine government officially surrenders to the British, ending the Falklands War. Six British ships were lost in the conflict, along with 255 British servicemen. Victory was won, but at a cost. Having emerged from his first...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. — 70 p. — (Warbirds Illustrated №33). This is a real nice collection and photographic mini book on the Fleet Air Arm from beautiful pictures of Hawker Sea Fury fighters up to Falklands War era Naval aircraft and carriers.
Grub Street Publishing, 2020. — 255 p. The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defense of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA), in part due to the ten-year gap between the retirement of the Harrier and the...
Grub Street Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. Since the end of World War 2 the primary role of the Royal Navys Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power projection; the ability rapidly to respond to any trouble spot across the globe and to protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its partner nations. The principal tools in that response were the strike aircraft which took the...
Air World, 2020. — 338 p. In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements. It would, however, take three hard years before Dunsfold Aerodrome would be made available by a reluctant Air Ministry and the company was able...
Grub Street Publishing, 2009. — 308 p. Des Curtis was one of the founder members of 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618’s primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr dams. The operation, code named Operation Servant, was given top security classification,...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 352 p. This is the story of British naval flying from aircraft carriers, from its conception in World War I to the present day. It includes the types of aircraft and the men who flew them, the carriers and the evolution of their designs, the theaters of war in which they served and their notable achievements and tragedies. It traces navy flying from the...
Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2013. This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical...
Pen and Sword Books, 2008. — 224 p. Richard Bell Davies was one of the most important characters in the history of naval aviation. Despite a traditional naval education - he was among the last cadets to be trained under sail - he was quick to grasp the potential of aircraft, and backed his vision by privately learning to fly. This allowed him to join the Naval Air Wing in 1913...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 356 p. This book summarizes the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.
Silvertail Books, 2016. — 306 p. In 1942 Norman Hanson learnt to fly the Royal Navy’s newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots it also proved to be a lethal weapon. Posted to the South Pacific aboard HMS Illustrious, Hanson and his squadron took the...
Sapere Books, 2020. — 150 p. Written in 1955, Arctic Rescue is a first-hand account by Royal Marine Ronald “Tubby” Healiss who was on board the HMS Glorious - an aircraft carrier during World War II. The language takes some getting used to at first, yet this is a detailed account providing an insight into one man's account of survival during WWII. There are some fascinating...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 176 p. The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the "as fitted" general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the...
Maritime Books, 1982. — 108 p. David Hobbs, a retired Fleet Air Arm Pilot and Naval Commander, is the acknowledged expert on British Naval Aviation and the author of more than twenty published works. This book describes the types of the British Aviation for Royal Navy since 1945 to the present.
Maritime Books, 2007. — 90 p. This book describes the logistic support that enabled British aircraft carriers to carry out extended operations across the globe during WWII and the Korean Conflict. The book brings together original material and images, much of which is previously unpublished.
Seaforth Publishing, 2019. — 390 p. A biography of a British pilot set against the backdrop of the Royal Navy’s fight to regain control of its aviation after the First World War. The establishment of the RAF came at a cost—and it was the Royal Navy that paid the price. In 1918 it had been pre-eminent in the technology and tactics of employing aircraft at sea, but once it lost...
Seaforth Publishing, 2017. — 224 p. In a few short years after 1914, the Royal Navy practically invented naval air warfare, not only producing the first effective aircraft carriers, but also pioneering most of the techniques and tactics that made naval air power a reality. Following two previously well-received histories of British naval aviation, David Hobbs turns his...
Routledge, 2021. — 277 p. The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionised warfare at sea, on land, and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organisation introduced and operationalized naval aircraft carrier strike, aerial anti-submarine warfare, strategic bombing, and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 years before the outbreak of the Second World War....
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 224 p. During aviations pioneering years Francis Kennedy McClean used his vast inherited wealth to help the now famous Short Brothers company become established as one of Britains greatest aircraft manufacturers and, in doing so, he helped the Royal Navys first pilots into the air. In effect, he was Godfather to British naval aviation. But McClean...
Routledge, 2018. — 648 p. This is the second of three volumes covering the transformation of the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. As the subtitle of this volume 'The Fleet Air Arm in Transition' suggests, the years 1942-1943 marked a stepping stone between the small pre-war cadre operating from a small number of carriers to a naval air arm flying modern aircraft types...
Ships Monthly, 2014. — 100 p. — ISBN: 978-1909786271. Each issue focuses on a theme or significant historic ship, their stories complemented with archive photography and artwork. A real collectors item and great read for anyone with an interest in the development of naval, passenger and transportation shipping.
Grub Street Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. Written in three parts, and as a sequel to Seven Seas, Nine Lives, Richard Pike continues the remarkable experiences of Captain AWF 'Alfie' Sutton CBE DSC and bar RN. During events which come as close to fiction as is imaginable, the first part describes how Alfie, badly injured and close to death during the bombing of HMS Illustrious by...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 208 p. Hugh Popham joined the Fleet Air Arm in the summer of 1940 and was soon in training as a pilot at HMS Vincent and then HMS Yeovilton; thereafter his wartime career as a naval pilot took him to the far corners of the world, notably to the Indian Ocean where he had to contend against the Japanese. His story is one of a naval fighter pilot...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 220 p. Following in the same style as his previous book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Malcolm Smith has collected a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War. He includes firsthand testimonies from pilots Manning early seaplane stations, an enthralling account from F.J. Rutland...
Transworld Digital, 2011. — 528 p. January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the Navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 395 p. On 8th June 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts HMS Ardent and Acasta were sighted by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst and her sister ship Gneisenau. In a brutal gun battle that lasted over an hour all British ships were sunk and more than 1500 men lost their lives. Why had Glorious left the main troop...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 228 p. A full examination of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm from the beginning of World War Two until final operations off Japan in August, 1945. Perfect for lovers of naval and aviation history. At the beginning of the Second World War the Royal Navy had only seven aircraft carriers and a couple of hundred obsolete aircraft. Six years later it had more...
Екатеринбург: Зеркало, 1998. — 52 с. — (Корабли крупным планом).
В первом выпуске серии "Корабли крупным планом" рассказано о бронированном авианосце Королевского Флота "Викториес". История переоборудования крейсера в авианосец, его боевой путь. Текст сопровождён 22-мя страницами чертежей и схем, а также большим количеством ч-б фотографий корабля.
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