Raf Hendon: The Birthplace of Aerial Power

Name: Raf Hendon: The Birthplace of Aerial Power
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ISBN: 9780955426865

ISBN-10: 0955426863

ISBN-13: 9780955426865

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrew Renwick

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If any one airfield in the world could claim to be the home of military aviation, RAF Hendon has to be the no.1 contender. The story starts more than 150 years ago in August 1862, when one Henry Treacey Coxwell took a party on a balloon flight from the present-day Hendon site. In was not an auspicious start - suffering from light winds they only just reached a field near Mill Hill.Aviation returned to Hendon in 1910 in the form of British aviation pioneer Claude Grahame-White, who laid the foundations for the development of the Hendon site that was soon christened "The London Aerodrome." Many famous aviation personalities (not least Geoffrey de Havilland) came to Hendon and the fledgling…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English