British Naval Aircraft 1912-58
London: Putnam & Co., 1958. Octavo, navy-blue cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, 426 pp., frontispiece, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams throughout, three appendices included. A very faint darker area on front cover, foxing on endpapers and half-title page, very light foxing on leaves throughout, dust-jacket worn and torn at edges, small green Dymock's sticker on inside lower-right edge of front cover; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A companion to Thetford's earlier work, Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-1958, this volume contains detailed information on all the aircraft flown in regular service by the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Service and the Fleet Air Arm between 1912 and 1958. Thetford covers performance, dimensions, armament and weights, and offers a brief development history for each aircraft type. Also included are lists of Squadrons or Flights and the aircraft they utilised. Accompanied by 360 photographs and over 100 three-view drawings, this is the ideal reference book on aircraft of the period. Item #4615
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