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Fairey Battle: A Reassessment of its RAF Career
Greg Baughen
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Description for Fairey Battle: A Reassessment of its RAF Career
Hardcover. The Fairey Battle is best known for being the worst plane ever to serve with the RAF. Disastrous losses in combat seemed to confirm this assessment. Does it deserve its reputation? A fresh look at the documents of the time reveal that solutions to the problems were known and, if they had been applied, the story might have been very different. Num Pages: 192 pages, 57 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJH; JWMV3; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
The Fairey Battle is best known for being one of the worst aircraft ever to serve in the Royal Air Force. On operations, it suffered the highest loss rate of any plane in the RAF's history, and the missions flown by its brave crews became a byword for hopelessness and futility. Born out of muddled thinking, condemned before it even reached the squadrons, and abandoned after the briefest of operational careers, the plane seems to thoroughly deserve its reputation. But was the Battle so useless? Why did it suffer such terrible losses? Was there nothing that could have been done ... Read more
The Fairey Battle is best known for being one of the worst aircraft ever to serve in the Royal Air Force. On operations, it suffered the highest loss rate of any plane in the RAF's history, and the missions flown by its brave crews became a byword for hopelessness and futility. Born out of muddled thinking, condemned before it even reached the squadrons, and abandoned after the briefest of operational careers, the plane seems to thoroughly deserve its reputation. But was the Battle so useless? Why did it suffer such terrible losses? Was there nothing that could have been done ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781555859
SKU
V9781781555859
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99-10
About Greg Baughen
Greg Baughen was educated at Sussex University where he obtained a degree in Mathematics. His interest in military aviation was sparked by curiosity over the defeat of British and French forces in the Battle of France in 1940. For many years, he has delved though public archives seeking explanations. The quest has taken him back to the origins of air ... Read more
Reviews for Fairey Battle: A Reassessment of its RAF Career
This is certainly a bold little book for students of 1940's Blitzkrieg. Get a fresh slant on one of WWII's most maligned machines - and grab this ripping read. Photos, appendices and annotations augment the absorbing account.
Cybermodeler [...] an excellent and readable book which goes a long way towards explaining some of the strange decisions made in the ... Read more
Cybermodeler [...] an excellent and readable book which goes a long way towards explaining some of the strange decisions made in the ... Read more