The Royal Naval Air Services during WWI (Voices in Flight)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (611 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 178346383X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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He also spent two years with the Royal Air Force at RAF Cottesmore with 360 (Canberra) Squadron. . He lives in Dorset. These positions included being responsible for engineering standards and practices in Small Ships' Flights (both Wasp and Lynx) and later having some influence on aviation arrangements in aircra
. He is the author of Voices In Flight: The Fleet Air Arm - Recollections from Formation to Cold War, published by Pen and Sword in 2013. These positions included being responsible for engineering standards and practices in Small Ships' Flights (both Wasp and Lynx) and later having some influence on aviation arrangements in aircraft capable ships, before retiring in 1990. In a varied career, he served with 801 and 809 Buccaneer squadrons in HMS Hermes and Ark Royal respectively. He lives in Dorset. After a spell at the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, he filled a variety of Staff and MoD app
Guy Leather, a pilot destined to track an impressive trajectory with the RNAS features in one such chapter; his day to day accounts relay the full gamut of pilot experience at this time. The archive contains an enormous quantity of material, in the form of handwritten diaries, transcripts, log books and documentation of many kinds. All these anecdotes are drawn from the extensive archive maintained by the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Somerset. Alongside the written material, the Museum maintains an unrivaled photographic archive and a representative sample of these images is included in the book.Excerpts from diaries, transcripts of spoken firsthand accounts and other recorded narratives make up the bulk of the book, with whole chapters dedicated to some of the most vocal members to see service during the course of the RNAS's Great W