From Nighthawk to Spitfire: The Aircraft of R.J. Mitchell [Audiobook] download free by John Shelton
- Listen audiobook: From Nighthawk to Spitfire: The Aircraft of R.J. Mitchell
- Author: John Shelton
- Release date: 2015/3/21
- Publisher: THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780750962223
- Rating: 9.92 of 10
- Votes: 852
- Review by: Calliope Spooner
- Review rating: 7.13 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/29
- Duration: 2H34M17S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPEG4, WAV, MP3, Shorten, WMA (compression TGZ, TAR.XZ, RAR, ALZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M17S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: R.J. Mitchell was virtually self-taught and almost all his aircraft were slow-flying seaplanes. The story of how this man from the land-locked Midlands, apprenticed to a locomotive works, became responsible for the Spitfire is a great tale in itself.This detailed book tells us how Mitchell learned his trade - contributing to the production of the cumbersome Nighthawk (designed to combat the German Zeppelin threat) and gradually coming to produce record-breaking racing floatplanes that won outright the prestigious international Schneider Trophy.Mitchell was thus well placed to design a high-speed aircraft when war was imminent; however, as John K. Shelton reveals, the production of the famous fighter was by no means a certainty and its vital contribution to winning the Battle of Britain was `a very close run thing'.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Aerospace & Aviation Technology, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Aircraft, Military History, Military Engineering
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 20.26 USD
- Dimensions: 156x234x15.24mm
- Weight: 453.59g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Stroud, United Kingdom
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