Full Circle
The story of air fighting

By (author)

J. E. ('Johnnie') Johnson

USED BOOK

CONDITION

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DESCRIPTION

Air fighting began in the First World War, when single, fabric-covered aeroplanes scouted for the soldiers below. 

Pilots and observers fought aerial duels with rifles or revolvers. Soon the two-seaters were carrying machine-guns, and the scouts were flying in pairs. Later, the pairs developed into squadrons, and the team fighting developed until German 'circuses' of fifty vividly-painted scouts fought British 'wings'.

In the Second World War the Battle of Britain pilots fought in much the same way, but faster planes and greater altitudes brought a trend towards smaller formations.

The introduction of jets saw the fighting unit reduced still further and now, with supersonic fly-by-wire technology pushing the frontiers of air power ever further, formations have returned to single numbers.

Air warfare has come full circle.

PROD. CODE : 9780304358601-C1