The four geniuses of the Battle of Britain : Watson-Watt, Henry Royce, Sydney Camm, and R.J. Mitchell / David Coles and Peter Sherrard
- Bib ID:
- 10025618
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Coles, David (David Eric Alfred)
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- Description:
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- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2012
- 1 online resource ( xvi, 172 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
- ISBN:
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- 9781783033843 ((electronic bk.))
- 1783033843 ((electronic bk.))
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781848847590
- 1848847599
- Full contents:
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Robert Watson-Watt
- Radar's Inventor
- Early radar
- Chain Home (CH)
- Range
- Bearing
- Height finding
- CRT display
- X-Y and PPI
- The coming of mono-static radar
- CHL, CHEL and AI
- Watson-Watt and Bowen
- ASV and other developments
- The Battle of Britain
- The London Blitz
- Knickebein
- X-Gerät
- The Coventry Blitz
- Luftwaffe raids on other towns
- The British counter-strikes
- ASV
- The Bruneval raid
- GEE
- Oboe
- H2S
- Window
- passive jamming
- Active jamming
- Decca navigator
- A summary of Robert Watson-Watt's work
- Notes on CH system p.r.f. and range
- Chapter 2
- Frederick Henry Royce and the Merlin
- Chapter 3
- Sydney Camm
- The Designer of the Hurricane
- The man
- The Hurricane
- the move to monoplanes
- Manufacture and materials
- simplicity or complexity
- Wood versus metal and construction details
- Engine, in-line or radial
- Merlin engine types for each Hurricane mark
- Fixed or variable pitch propeller
- Fuselage-fitted armament
- The wing
- The wing's armament capacity
- The tail assembly
- Fin and rudder
- Instrumentation
- Hurricane development
- Sea Hurricanes
- Other design variants
- Summary
- Chapter 4
- Reginald Joseph Mitchell and the Spitfire
- Chapter 5
- The German Terror Weapons
- The V-1
- The V-2
- The V-3
- The Horten Flying Wing
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-158) and index.
- Print version record.
- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Subject:
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- Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973
- Royce, Henry, Sir, 1863-1933
- Camm, Sydney, 1893-1966
- Mitchell, R. J. (Reginald Joseph), 1895-1937
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology
- Engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Technologie
- Ingénieurs -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- Bataille d'Angleterre, Grande-Bretagne, 1940
- Australian
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- Also Titled:
- Watson-Watt, Henry Royce, Sydney Camm, and R.J. Mitchell
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