British naval aviation the first 100 years
In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its rapid expansion and evolution radically...
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Surrey, UK
v Ashgate
2011
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| Series: | Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Seamen or airmen? : the early days of British naval flying / Eric Grove
- 2. Air Force, Fleet Air Arm - or Armoured Corps?: the Royal Naval Air Service at war / Eric Grove
- 3. Competing visions : the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the role of airpower / Geoffrey Till
- 4. The Fleet Air Arm and the struggle for the Mediterranean, 1940-1944 / Ben Jones
- 5. New tricks for old sea dogs : British naval aviation in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Jon Robb-Webb
- 6. British naval aviation and the Radical Review, 1953-1955 / Tim Benbow
- 7. Limited war and crisis management : naval aviation in action from the Korean War to the Falklands Conflict / Ian Speller
- 8. The battle for CVA01 / Edward Hampshire
- 9. "More than just spare airfields" : defence policy, defence reviews and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers / Lee Willett.