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Petty, Richard

 
9781473849051: The Boy Airman: An Absolute Stranger to Fear
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ISBN 10 : 1473849055 ISBN 13 : 9781473849051
Editeur : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2016

Synopsis

The life of many combatants in The Great War was often short and brutish. But there were choices for some. Taking to the air was an attractive alternative to the slime, stench and gore of the trenches. The prospect of flying in the Royal Navy, the Senior Service, Nelson's Navy, must have been irresistible to any adventurous teenager - the best aeroplanes on the best ships with the best sailors that ever existed - or so he might have been led to believe. The Royal Naval Air Service was sorely tested, and not necessarily by the enemy. The casualties of the sea and its perils, and of accident and mechanical failure, were catastrophic. But this critical battle between young pilots in their infant flying machines and unpredictable events forged the pathway for our modern conceits of war - missiles, drones, giant aircraft carriers, weapons of space. A hundred years ago a young pilot took illicit photographs with his pocket camera and left a personal account of his life at sea with his 'kite'. This book tells his story illustrated by his long-lost 'snaps'.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Petty is a London medical practitioner. He is the author of Plastic Surgery: Its Origins, an account of the life and works of the father of plastic surgery, Sir Harold Gillies.

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Aviation
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1473849055
ISBN 13 
9781473849051
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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