Sitting Ducks & Peeping Toms - Rilegato

Michael I Draper

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ISBN 10: 085130429X ISBN 13: 9780851304298

Casa editrice: Air-Britain (Historians) Limited, 2012

Riassunto

Charts the British development of unmanned aircraft from 1917. Most of the data and many of the 300 illustrations have never before been in print. Almost 3000 detailed individual aircraft histories are given. These cover the Fairey Queen, Queen Bee, Queen Martinet, ML U-120D, Auster B3, Firefly, Meteor, Canberra, Jindvik, Sea Vixen, Shelduck, Chukar, Mirach, MATS-B, Skeet and Banshee. The author reveals the full story of the GEC Phoenix and its role in the Iraq War. Here too is the fascinating story of the Phoenix UAV in Bosnia and Iraq, the reason why so many purposely failed to return from missions over Basra. Michael Draper also explains why Banshee target drones self destructed for no apparent reason and documents the Spitfire, the Lancaster and Lincoln U.5 drones. This is a ground breaking work, drawing on decades of painstaking research, much of it into untapped primary sources and first hand observation.

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L'autore:

Michael Draper has been an aviation researcher for over 35 years. He has collaborated on a number of specialist aviation books including a highly acclaimed work on the Falklands air war. For twenty five years he worked for one of Europe's leading magazine publishers.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Air-Britain (Historians) Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 085130429X
• ISBN 13: 9780851304298
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 372