Camel Pilot Supreme
Captain D V Armstrong DFC
Annette Carson has done a wonderful job of chronicling Armstrong's life, flight training and ultimate recognition as the undisputed master of aerobatics. -Over the Front Initially forbidden as foolhardy, stunt flying soon became a paramount method of survival in the life and death mêlées of dogfighting. But pilots still delighted in the joy and exuberance of aerobatting for its own sake, and they recognized a master of that very special skill in young D'Urban Victor Armstrong, whose displays were nothing short of electrifying. Fluid and dramatic, performed with flair at ultra-low level, his exhibitions left spectators shaking their heads in…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5267-5268-0
- EAN: 9781526752680
- Produktnummer: 35173452
- Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 95'693 KB
Über den Autor
Annette Carson has written on a variety of nonfiction topics with a preference for history and biography. Her love of aviation led to involvement in aerobatics, a subject on which she has contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica. She has served in organizational roles including Contest Director, British Team Manager and International Jury member, was an active delegate to the International Aerobatics Commission of the FAI, and in 1986 published Flight Fantastic: The Illustrated History of Aerobatics, earning the FAI's Tissandier Diploma. She won the 2019 Thornton B. Hooper Award of the League of WW1 Aviation Historians. Carson is also widely respected for her revisionist books and articles on Richard III. She was a founding member of the historical research team that mounted the search for his grave in Leicester and commissioned the archaeological dig that found him in 2012.
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