Ebook: Voices in flight: the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War
- Tags: Military operations Aerial--British, World War 1914-1918--Aerial operations British, History, Great Britain. -- Royal Naval Air Service -- History, World War 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations British, Great Britain. -- Royal Naval Air Service, Military operations Aerial -- British
- Series: Voices in flight
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Pen & Sword Aviation
- City: Barnsley;South Yorkshire
- Language: English
- epub
Following in the same style as his previous book of Fleet Air Arm recollections, Malcolm Smith has collected a compendium of reminiscences from pilots who flew for the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines during the First World War. He includes firsthand testimonies from pilots manning early seaplane stations, an enthralling account from F.J. Rutland (the 'Rutland of Jutland'), who became the first pilot to take off in a Sopwith Pup from a platform on the roof of one of HMS Yarmouth's gun turrets, the true tale behind Rudyard Kipling's short story 'A Flight of Fact' (concerning Guy Duncan-Smith's experience of becoming marooned in the Maldives following a dramatic shoot-down), amongst many other personalized and illuminating stories. 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. This humane and thoughtful consolidation of pilot reflections is sure to appeal broadly, particularly as we approach the one hundredth year anniversary of the First World War.
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