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When the Navy Took to the Air - The Experimental Seaplane Stations of the Royal Naval Air Service (Paperback)
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When the Navy Took to the Air - The Experimental Seaplane Stations of the Royal Naval Air Service (Paperback)
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Up to and during the First World War, the Royal Navy was at the
forefront of developments in aviation: concerned not just with the
use of military aircraft to defend the fleet, but also securing the
homeland against Zeppelin raiders and undertaking tactical air
strikes into enemy territory. With the aeroplane a totally new and
revolutionary weapon, the work of several experimental airfields
and seaplane stations became crucial to the success of these
operations. Taking the lead role were Felixstowe and the Isle of
Grain, where work on the development of new aircraft and aerial
weapons was handled, alongside ground-breaking advances in
navigational systems, air-to-ground radio communication, and
deck-board ship landings. These two air stations (as well as others
with a more minor role) witnessed a huge scale of expenditure and
the assembly of an elite group of experts and hotshot pilots who,
in pushing the envelope to the extreme, sometimes sacrificed their
own lives. The work of these experimental stations has been more or
less forgotten, a result of the Royal Naval Air Service having been
subsumed into the Royal Air Force, and the subsequent emphasis on
the aeroplane as a weapon of land warfare. In this First World War
anniversary period, it is a story that needs telling.
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