OXFORD PAMPHLETS ON WORLD AFFAIRS No. 44 — THE MILITARY AEROPLANE —
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish(es) | Stapled |
| Special Features | Pamphlet |
| Condition | Good |
| Author(s) | E. Colston Shepherd |
| Publisher | Oxford at the Clarendon Press |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Published date | First Published February 6, 1941 Reprinted April I941 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Collection / Series | Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs |
| Size | 12 x 18 x 0.3 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION MILITAIRE • APPAREILS - CONSTRUCTEURS |
Description
The types of military aeroplane with which the combatants started the war have now been tried in many months of intensive air warfare. Some new types are already in use and others, on both sides, will shortly join in the battle. The air war cannot properly be understood without some knowledge of the main classes of military aeroplane bomber, fighter, reconnaissance machine and of the way in which they are designed to carry out the different functions they perform; of their limitations and their possible future development; and of the lessons which have already been learned.
This knowledge Mr. Shepherd briefly supplies in this pamphlet. Two points of special interest which he discusses are the functions of the long-range fighter, of which Britain has more than one highly efficient type now coming into service, and the differences, hitherto, between German 'precision' bombing and British.
Mr. Shepherd is Editor of The Aeroplane and author of a previous Oxford Pamphlet (No. 28, Britain's Air Power).