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At the start of the First World War, little thought had been given to how aircraft would play a part in the conflict. The Royal Flying Corps consisted of five squadrons, one equipped with observation balloons and the others with aircraft. In fact, so advanced was Britain that its squadrons were the first in the world. Along with the Royal Flying Corps, Britain also had the Royal Naval Air Service, which pioneered the use of aircraft carriers. The value of aircraft was soon realised and rapid expansion took place of both services, each using a variety of aircraft from Sopwith Pups and Camels, to Bristol F.2Bs and the huge Handley page O/400 bombers, as well as Vickers Vimys, Martinsyde G.100s and Avro 504s. With a wide range of aircraft of all types, from fighters to bombers, seaplanes and reconnaissance types, the British air forces started the war with barely 150 aircraft but ended it with thousands. Terry Treadwell takes us through the various types, their uses and history, and this companion to his German and Austro-Hungarian Aircraft Manufacturers is profusely illustrated with images of the men and machines that protected the skies of the Allied territories.
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Terry C. Treadwell lives in Bournemouth and has written many books on aviation, including several by Amberley. His Strike from Beneath the Sea is the definitive volume on the use of submarines as 'aircraft carriers'.
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Oh dear, what a mess!
2 Jan 2012
The selection of photogaphs is wide and excellent, and includes some I have never seen before - but why are so many miscaptioned? I'll list just a few, to prove I'm not being picky. P.57 D.H.5 identified as "D.H.4", P.108 Nieuport 12 identied as a "Fairey Hamble Baby", P.163 lineup of Bristol F.2b fighters as "S.E.5a of 141 Squadron". On the whole one can put this down to carelessness rather than ignorance - it is evident that no one checked the photo captions before the book went to the printers. The trouble is that one can't really trust any of the other captions either - even those that look good - in the middle of all this muddle.
The text is also very uneven in quality - it is almost as if Mr. Treadwell, or whoever oversaw the production of the book, asked a young assistant or two to "do a 2000 word essay on such and such an aeroplane". One cannot believe, surely, an aviation writer of Mr. Treadwell's eminence could have committed the following schoolboy plagarism. (Again, alas, this is just one example - no desire to stretch this review to overly great length).
From a Wikipedia article on the R.E.8 that has been in place since 2007 (this book was published, let it be noted, in 2011) -
"It was (intentionally) less stable than the B.E.2, although modifications had to be made to improve stability before it could gain acceptance by pilots used to the B.E.2e".
Mr. Treadwell (or is it indeed he) renders this as -
"It was a more stable aircraft than the B.E.2, although modifications had to be made to improve stability before it could gain acceptance by pilots used to the B.E.2e".
Which is not only cut and paste plagarism, but in changing the sense of the first part of the sentence as it originally appears in Wiki it no longer even makes sense - why would the B.E.2e pilots find the R.E.8 tricky to fly, and ask for improved stability, if it was already more stable than the B.E.2?
Perhaps I am being unfair, and Mr. Treadwell wrote the original sentence in Wiki? I won't go into this, but I have the very best and most obvious way of knowing that he didn't. And if he had, Wiki editors have no right to use even their own work from Wiki in quite this way, have they?
Alas - although there are traces of the real Mr. Treadwell in all this mess - at the very least he is guilty of not checking assistants' work - and the result is a book that will only be useful to someone with a good knowledge of WWI aviation, who will be able to recognise, and hopefully isolate, the careless errors and outright badly written, muddled nonsense.
The text is also very uneven in quality - it is almost as if Mr. Treadwell, or whoever oversaw the production of the book, asked a young assistant or two to "do a 2000 word essay on such and such an aeroplane". One cannot believe, surely, an aviation writer of Mr. Treadwell's eminence could have committed the following schoolboy plagarism. (Again, alas, this is just one example - no desire to stretch this review to overly great length).
From a Wikipedia article on the R.E.8 that has been in place since 2007 (this book was published, let it be noted, in 2011) -
"It was (intentionally) less stable than the B.E.2, although modifications had to be made to improve stability before it could gain acceptance by pilots used to the B.E.2e".
Mr. Treadwell (or is it indeed he) renders this as -
"It was a more stable aircraft than the B.E.2, although modifications had to be made to improve stability before it could gain acceptance by pilots used to the B.E.2e".
Which is not only cut and paste plagarism, but in changing the sense of the first part of the sentence as it originally appears in Wiki it no longer even makes sense - why would the B.E.2e pilots find the R.E.8 tricky to fly, and ask for improved stability, if it was already more stable than the B.E.2?
Perhaps I am being unfair, and Mr. Treadwell wrote the original sentence in Wiki? I won't go into this, but I have the very best and most obvious way of knowing that he didn't. And if he had, Wiki editors have no right to use even their own work from Wiki in quite this way, have they?
Alas - although there are traces of the real Mr. Treadwell in all this mess - at the very least he is guilty of not checking assistants' work - and the result is a book that will only be useful to someone with a good knowledge of WWI aviation, who will be able to recognise, and hopefully isolate, the careless errors and outright badly written, muddled nonsense.
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