Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Developments upto August 1914
• Britain: The Armed Aeroplane Emerges
• Lewis in Europe
• The RFC's Military and Naval Wings: Experimental Work
• Developments in France
• Progress in Germany
• Russian Developments
• Colonial Wars and the Mexican Revolution
• 2. Rifle-Calibre Guns
• The British Empire and Commonwealth
• The Lewis
• The Vickers
• Gun Mountings
• The French Republic
• The Hotchkiss Guns
• The Colt-Browning
• The Lewis
• Other Equipment
• Gun Mountings
• Imperial Russia
• The Madsen
• The Colt-Browning
• The Russian Maxim
• Gun Mountings
• The Kingdom of Italy
• The Fiat Revelli
• The Villar Perosa
• The Vickers
• Gun Mountings
• The United States of America
• The Vickers
• The Lewis
• The Browning
• The Marlin
• Gun Mountings
• The German Empire
• The Parabellum
• The Bergmann
• The 'Spandau'
• The Gast
• Gun Mountings
• The Austro-Hungarian Empire
• The Schwarzlose
• The Madsen
• The Bergmann
• The IMG08
• The Gebauer
• Captured Weapons
• Gun Mountings
• 3. Ammunition
• Cartridges
• Stoppages
• Feed Arrangements
• Special Ammunition
• Incendiary and Explosive Bullets
• Loading Arrangements
• Injuries and Damage
• 4. Firing Through the Propeller Arc
• The Mother of Invention
• Sychronization: Early Attempts
• The Fokker affair
• The British Gears
• French Gears
• Russian, Italian and American Gears
• The Problems of the kuk Fliegertruppen
• 5. Big Guns
• British Flying Guns
• Flying Artillery: French Concepts
• Russian, Italian and American Cannon
• Germany and the Kanone
• Austro-Hungarian Designs
• 6. Gunsights
• The Fixed Gunsight
• The Free Gunsight
• Night Sights
• Miscellaneous Sights
• 7. Conclusions
• Appendix
• Sources and Bibliography
• Glossary