Mark Hillier - Böcker

Situated close to the South Coast, on flat land to the north of Chichester in West Sussex, lies Goodwood Aerodrome. This pleasant rural airfield was once home to squadrons of Hurricanes, Spitfires and later Typhoons. RAF Westhampnett was at the fo...

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So often it is daring, even dashing, exploits of the fighter pilots which attract the most interest. Theirs is, indisputably, the glory but not theirs alone. For it is the groundcrew who kept the aircraft in the sky who deservedly share in that gl...

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Reichsmarschall G ring told Hitler that it would take less than a month for his much-vaunted Luftwaffe to conquer the RAF and pave the way for the German invasion of Great Britain. His prediction was to prove disastrously wrong, but for four long ...

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';Detail[s] German fighter pilots' flying helmets, oxygen masks, goggles . . . and other ephemera . . . brilliantly doneand completely engrossing.'The Aviation Historian Reichsmarschall Gring told Hitler that it would take less than a month for hi...

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The scenes are familiar ones; the young Brylcream Boys sat at dispersal waiting for the haunting call of Scramble , lounging in their shirt sleeves and fur-lined boots, their leather flying helmets lying limp by their side. But what did the RAF fi...

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On 16 November 1916, Lieutenant Geoffrey Dorman took off from Shoreham in a Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b with the intention of heading West along the South Coast to the airfield at Gosport. Not long into the flight, however, a dense sea fog formed ...

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The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the progr...

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A complete guide to the WWI uniforms and equipment of RFC pilots and airmen-fully illustrated with color photos.When the First World War began in 1914, the newly formed Royal Flying Corps was put to the ultimate test. As the Great War raged, the d...

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A complete guide to the WWI uniforms and equipment of RFC pilots and airmen-fully illustrated with color photos.When the First World War began in 1914, the newly formed Royal Flying Corps was put to the ultimate test. As the Great War raged, the d...

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A Royal Air Force pilot shares a riveting account of flying into combat against the Japanese in this WWII memoir supported by additional research.Though ill health initially kept Angus Findon from joining the Royal Air Force, he never gave up his ...

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A Royal Air Force pilot shares a riveting account of flying into combat against the Japanese in this WWII memoir supported by additional research.Though ill health initially kept Angus Findon from joining the Royal Air Force, he never gave up his ...

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Reginald Collis joined the newly formed Royal Flying Corps in June 1912. Trained initially as an Air Mechanic, he was quickly selected for flying training and took his first flight in January 1913, becoming only the third Air Mechanic and the 14th...

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