Wings of The Navy

Carrier aircraft, since their beginning, have been a very special kind of machine and demanded something equally special of the men who flew them.
Eric 'Winkle' Brown was one such, a pilot who has enjoyed one of the most extraordinary careers in flying. He was the first naval officer to head the elite Aerodynamics Flight at Farnborough where he tested captured German types at the end of World War II. His experiences then are recorded in Wings of the Luftwaffe.
Here is the follow-up to that fascinating book, again edited by William Green, which records Eric Brown's from the cockpit experiences testing British and American carrier aircraft.
Carrier operations are potentially the harshest and most dangerous test aircraft and pilot can face. Landing on the pitching, bucking deck of a carrier or catapulted over a plunging bow, shipboard aircraft had to be exceptional. Their real characters have been forgotten and distorted over the passage of time; now this book places on record the flying characteristics, good, bad and indifferent, of aircraft as varied as the Fairey Swordfish and Grumman Hellcat. Sixteen types are covered, each illustrated with cutaways, cockpit details and many photographs.



by Captain Eric Brown
Published by Janes 1980 1st edition. 176pp profusely illustrated with b&w photos scale drawings and cutaways fine, d/j slightlyworn on edges.




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