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The boy airman : an absolute stranger to fear

Petty, Richard (Hugh Richard), author

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\"The life of many combatants in The Great War was often short and brutish. But there were choices for some. Taking to the air was an attractive alternative to the slime, stench and gore of the trenches. The prospect of flying in the Royal Navy, the Senior Service, Nelson's Navy, must have been irresistible to any adventurous teenager--the best aeroplanes on the best ships with the best sailors that ever existed--or so he might have been led to believe. The Royal Naval Air Service was sorely tested, and not necessarily by the enemy. The casualties of the sea and its perils, and of accident and mechanical failure, were catastrophic. But this critical battle between young pilots in their infant flying machines and unpredictable events forged the pathway for our modern conceits of war--missiles, drones, giant aircraft carriers, weapons of space. A hundred years ago a young pilot took illicit photographs with his pocket camera and left a personal account of his life at sea with his 'kite.' This book tells his story illustrated by his long-lost snaps\"--Publisher description.

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
• Subject: Petty, Hugh Mortimer, 1898-1975. / Great Britain. Royal Naval Air Service Biography. / World War, 1914-1918 Aerial operations, British. / Air pilots, Military Great Britain Biography. / Airmen Great Britain Biography. / World War, 1914-1918 Naval operations, British. / World War, 1914-1918 Naval operations, British Pictorial works.
• ISBN: 9781473849051

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D602.P425 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE