Skua!: The Royal Navy's Dive-Bomber
The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy's desire for a carrier-based dive-bomber and RAF's preference for a fighter. Despite being the first to shoot down a Luftwaffe aircraft in World War II, early operations in Norway found the type woefully inadequate as a fighter. As a dive-bomber, the Royal Navy put the design to good use from the outset of WWII. It was involved with the hunt for the Graff Spee, sunk the major warship Koln, suffered with great loss in an attack on the Scharnhorst, helped to keep the German…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84415-455-5
- EAN: 9781844154555
- Produktnummer: 25909089
- Verlag: Pen & Sword Aviation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 271 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B19.1 cm x D3.2 cm 721 g
- Gewicht: 721
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