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British Flight Testing: Martlesham Heath 1920-1939

British Flight Testing: Martlesham Heath 1920-1939

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{detailed description}In British Flight Testing: Martlesham Heath 1920-1939 Tim Mason traces the development of landplane testing during the whole period between the two World Wars.
For nearly twenty years Martlesham Heath was the site from which all British military aircraft underwent their type testing before acceptance into the Services, or rejection. As well as aircraft intended for the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm, Martlesham undertook the trials of British civil aircraft before they received their certificates of airworthiness. Non-British types were also flown such as captured German aeroplanes from World War I, a French Breguet, and a number of United States types which were either of particular interest or destined for British service. In addition to testing basic types, Martlesham tested new versions and modifications as well as weapons and equipment.
The number of aeroplane types tested amounted to over four hundred and the author describes them all, and in numerous tables gives the official performance figures. All the well-known types are to be found -the Bulldog, Siskin, Fury, Hart, Spitfire, Sidestrand, and most of the de Haviland civil types including the Albatross - as well as many more obscure types such as the Beardmore Inflexible, the Spartan Clipper and the Vickers Virginia with 'fighting tops'.
While the aeroplanes form the main subject of the book, the author has not neglected the aerodrome and its development, nor the men who included all the outstanding test pilots of the time.
Cover illustration: An original painting by Keith Woodcock which depicts the Gloster Gamecock J7757 as it taxies out past the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin 111B J8627 at Martlesham Heath in the 1920s. A resident Vickers Virginia, J6993, flies overhead.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Tim Mason
1993 1st edn. (Conway large format) 256pp
{condition}near fine, inc. d/j
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