Sea Flight: a Fleet Air Arm Pilot's Story Paperback / softback
by Hugh Popham
Paperback / softback
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Hugh Popham joined the Fleet Air Arm in the summer of 1940 and was soon in training as a pilot at HMS Vincent and then Yeovilton; thereafter his wartime career as a naval pilot took him to the far corners of the world, notably to the Indian Ocean where he had to contend against the Japanese.His story is one of a naval fighter pilot having to do his best with hopelessly inadequate planes.
First the Sea Hurricanes, and then the Supermarine Seafires, proved to be less than brilliant machines, the Seafire proving far too fragile for the rigours of carrier operations.
But it is this story, incorporating the kind of detail that is missing from many wartime memoirs, that makes this book so fascinating.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages, 18 B&W Photographs and Maps
- Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Publication Date:20/04/2010
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- ISBN:9781848320550
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages, 18 B&W Photographs and Maps
- Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Publication Date:20/04/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781848320550