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EARLY AIRCRAFT ARMAMENT: THE AEROPLANE AND THE GUN UP TO 1918

by Harry Woodman

Published by Arms & Armour Press. 1st. 1989

Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams.

A super copy, looks unread.

ISBN: 0853689903
Stock no. 1329461

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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

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