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Peter G. Cooksley

Autor(a) de Sopwith Fighters in Action

33+ Works 347 Membros 3 Críticas

About the Author

Peter Cooksley is a past Vice President of the Cross and Cockade organisation, the Society of World War One Aero Historians

Obras por Peter G. Cooksley

Sopwith Fighters in Action (1991) 30 exemplares
German bombers of WWI in action (2000) 28 exemplares
BE2 in action - Aircraft No. 123 (1992) 26 exemplares
Flying Bomb (1979) 18 exemplares
The air VCs (1997) 13 exemplares
RFC/RNAS Handbook 1914-1918 (2000) 11 exemplares

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gdlemail | Oct 2, 2022 |
It could be argued that the aircraft built at Thomas Sopwith's factory at Kingston-on-Thames contributed more to the Allied cause during the First World War than those of any other aircraft company. Of these, the Sopwith Camel is the best remembered. These aircraft made a great contribution to the development of the aircraft as a fighting machine at a time when the very science of flying was in its early stages - the world's first controlled flight having been made by the Wright brothers only some thirteen years before the first Sopwith Pup took to the air, The single seat Pup was to be the predecessor of a whole range of single seat fighters which were to continue as far as the limits of the rotary engine permitted.… (mais)
 
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MasseyLibrary | Mar 9, 2018 |
I ran through the bookstore waving it and exclaiming: I always wanted this! (Not true. Didn't even know it existed.)
 
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picardyrose | Dec 12, 2010 |

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Obras
33
Also by
3
Membros
347
Popularidade
#68,853
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
3
ISBN
41
Línguas
3

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