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- ISBN 9781841760025
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 178 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2001
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The outbreak of World War I found the British Army's Royal Flying Corps with just over 200 fragile, unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, and a uniformed strength of just over 2,000 all ranks; the Royal Naval Air Service had some 50 seaplanes.
By the Armistice of 1918 the unified Royal Air Force was the largest in the world, with about 22,650 aeroplanes - including a strategic bomber force - and 27,330 men operating from some 700 bases. This second in a two-part study covers RAF, WRAF and RAFNS uniforms from the unification of the service in April 1918; and the whole span of flying clothing during the Great War.
Andrew Cormack is a senior curator at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. He has spent his working life studying the history of the British Flying Services. Through Hendon and other sources he has collected a wealth of information, much of it previously unpublished, on the early development of the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and the RAF.
Peter Cormack, FSA, read Art History at Trinity College, Cambridge. For the past twenty years his principal field of research has been 19th and 20th century stained glass, on which he has written and lectured extensively. His work as an illustrator has appeared in Le Carnet de la Sabretache and Military Illustrated.
