Supermarine Seafire - Couverture rigide

Darling, Kev

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1861269900 ISBN 13 : 9781861269904

Editeur : The Crowood Press, 2008

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Supermarine Seafire Always overshadowed by its far more famous sibling the Spitfire, the Seafire was an aircraft adapted initially in haste to fill a large gap in the Fleet Air Arm's fighter inventory. This book provides information on the aircraft, comparing it to Spitfire. Full description

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Always overshadowed by its far more famous sibling the Spitfire, the Seafire was an aircraft adapted initially in haste to fill a large gap in the Fleet Air Arm's fighter inventory. The first Seafires were developed from the early marks of Rolls-Royce Merlin-powered Spitfire, but although the structure was strengthened to absorb some of the landing loads characteristic of carrier operation, the airframe would exhibit some alarming failures, a trait that continued through the life of the type. The next series of Seafires were Griffon powered and followed their RAF counterparts in introducing blow canopies and, later, modified wing planforms.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Kev Darling spent more than twenty years in the Royal Air Force, engineering aircraft ranging in size from the Tiger Moth to the TriStar. Medically discharged after the first Gulf War he strengthened his writing career, which he had begun in 1986. He is a resident of Wales, England.

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