Charles R G Bain: 2 books
High Hulls
Flying Boats of the 1930s and 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his latest book for Fonthill, Charles Bain looks at the golden age of the flying boat, when these sometimes...
by Charles R. G. Bain
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
The Second World War saw the apex of piston-engine aircraft design, and ushered the world into the jet age. Anybody who studies aviation will know the names: Spitfire, Mustang, Zero, Messerschmitt, Shturmovik. But there were many more aircraft to take to the skies before and during the war, and frequently...