AIRCRAFT OF THE FIGHTING POWERS, Volume 4
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Canvas finish, Bradel, Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Condition | Used, acceptable |
| Number of pages | 103 |
| Published date | 1944 |
| Language | English |
| Collection / Series | Aircraft of the Fighting Powers |
| Size | 24 x 29 x 2 cm |
| Authors | H.J. Cooper and O.G. Thetford |
| Editor | THE HARBOROUGH PUBLISHING CO., LTD. |
Description
FOREWORD
Naturally we all hope that by the time Vol. V of " Aircraft of the Fighting Powers " appears the Powers will have stopped fighting. But even if they have stopped, anyhow for the next generation or so, that does not mean that the aircraft of the fighting Powers will be of any less interest. And we may be quite sure that fighting aircraft will always be designed and built, even long after the World has been hammered into a state of peace.
The long quiet years during which Britannia really did rule the waves and no nonsense about it, were only possible because we had a Navy and warships which assured peace on the Seven Seas. Once in a while we had to use our ships to stop troubles ashore. Once in a while the Fleets of other nations fought one another - as when the Japanese Fleet sank the Russian Fleet, but there was, on the whole, peace on the seas. And the Royal Navy was the World's policeman.
Similarly the Air Forces of the winning Powers will have to be the air police of the future and will have to keep order among what Rudyard Kipling called " the lesser breeds without the Law ", for there are always small tribes and nations which will make trouble - such as we have had for years on the North - West Frontier of India and in Central Africa, and with slave - traders across the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf ; and as the U.S.A. had in the Philippines and in Central America ; and the Russians had in Outer Mongolia.
( ... ) Just so, fighting and bombing aircraft will be needed to Keep the Peace, which we hope will last for many years among the great Powers. And those Powers which are wise will foster the design of better and better warplanes in the interests of Peace. And thus, though these volumes may not in future years deal with Aircraft of the Fighting Powers, they may well deal with Fighting Aircraft of the Powers.
Thus the excellent pictures, and more particularly the accurate scale drawings of the fighting aircraft of the future will be just as valuable to coming generations of aeronautical enthusiasts as are those of past and current volumes. And the more the rising generations know about the details of the most modern weapons of war the better they will be able to handle them in protecting their own country against the aggression of others.
October, 1944.
C.G. GREY.
