This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship's career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships ...
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This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship's career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and the modern LPH. It concludes with a look at the future of naval aviation, while numerous appendices summarise related subjects like naval aircraft, recognition markings and the circumstances surrounding the loss of every British carrier. As befits such an important reference work, it is heavily illustrated with a magnificent gallery of photos and plans, including the first publication of original plans in full colour, one on a magnificent gatefold. Written by the leading historian of British carrier aviation, himself a retired Fleet Air Arm pilot, it displays the authority of a lifetime's research combined with a practical understanding of the issues surrounding the design and operation of aircraft carriers. As such British Aircraft Carriers is certain to become the standard work on the subject.
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Add this copy of British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development and to cart. $39.19, very good condition, Sold by Cornell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tewkesbury, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2014 by Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2017.
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Very Good. Size: 9x1x11; Naval Institute Press; Annapolis, 2013. Hardcover. Book is heavy and additional shipping cost may apply. A Very Good, blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, trace handling marks, a hint of sunning to page margins, couple of small dents bottom front board edge, previous owner info sticker top front pastedown else unmarked, in a Very Good, trace handling/scuff marks to panels, mild edge/corner wear, mild sunning to panel/flap margins and verso, Dust wrapper. A nice and clean copy. 4to[quarto or approx. 9.5 x 12 inches], 384pp., appendix, bibliography, glossary indexed, b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
