JANE'S all the world's AIRCRAFT 1913
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | Dust jacket (faded and damaged) |
| Condition | Used good |
| Number of pages | 284 |
| Published date | 1969 |
| Languages | English |
| Size | 31.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm |
| Author | Fred T. Jane |
| Editor | David & Charles (Publishers) Limited |
Description
By 1913 the aviation scene had just begun to consolidate and the names which were to adorn the industry of the future had begun to emerge—Bristol, Handley Page, De Havilland, Short, Breguet, Curtiss, Fokker. The prototypes of some of the famous aeroplanes which were a positive, if not a decisive influence upon the course of the First World War, also are described in this volume - Avro, Sopwith, Farman, Voisin, Albatros, Taube. With a view-point no doubt clouded by growing acceptance of the coming clash with Germany, editorial opinion inclined to the view that 'Except as a war machine the aeroplane is of little interest or use to anyone'. A civil role was not envisaged, although the embryonic aviation industry was already thinking in terms of aeroplanes large enough to carry great loads and to travel long distances. Even the airship was assigned a potential military use, and by 1913 the Zeppelin was already part of the German war machine. As a matter of sheer necessity the War forced the aeroplane to grow up; that is in the technical sense. In 1913 airframes were already shaping towards the configuration familiar in the First World War, and still familiar even in some planes flying at the beginning of the Second : the section of historical aircraft in this volume will show the enormous progress made in this respect. And planes were already flying with motors destined from the drawing board for aircraft alone. This reprint will satisfy the desire of many people interested in the history of aviation who have been unable to obtain a copy of one of the extremely scarce early issues.