- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Air Britain Historians Ltd (Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0851303102
- ISBN-13: 978-0851303109
- Product Dimensions: 29.8 x 21.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 767,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Hardcover
Jack Bruce is a legendary author in the field of WWI aircraft studies. The Sopwith Pup is the final book of his career, and it is a fitting finish. The elegant language and exhaustive research that made Bruce a world famous authority is demonstrated here on page after page.The Sopwith Pup
If you are interested in the Sopwith Pup, you cannot find a more complete and authorative sourcebook. From it's predecessors at Tommy Sopwith's aircraft works, through it's wartime employment as a frontline fighter for both the RNAS & RFC, shipboard fighter, deck launching and landing experiments, through it's later days as a trainer and home defense fighter, the entire story is told in these pages with great detail. Packed with photographs, each one fully and expertly captioned, there are also color profiles illustrating national, squadron, and personal markings, and pages of line drawing plans illustrating all aspects of the aircraft and it's variants. (I should note that the color profiles are small, and not like those one finds in Windsock datafiles or the Osprey series, but then there are many more of them illustrated on page after page, so that several dozen aircarft are shown in all.)
If you think you already know all there is to know about this very important and much loved (by all her flew it) aircraft, you may well be surprised. I know I was; for example, I thought the Pup derived directly from the 1 1/2 Strutter, but this is not so, as is demonstrated in text and photos.
This book was co-authored by Gordon Page and Ray Sturtivant, whose contributions in research and illustrations should also be mentioned. I recommend it highly if you enjoy, for example, the books of Alex Imrie, Norman Franks, Paul Leaman, or Harry Dempsey.
If you are interested in the Sopwith Pup, you cannot find a more complete and authorative sourcebook. From it's predecessors at Tommy Sopwith's aircraft works, through it's wartime employment as a frontline fighter for both the RNAS & RFC, shipboard fighter, deck launching and landing experiments, through it's later days as a trainer and home defense fighter, the entire story is told in these pages with great detail. Packed with photographs, each one fully and expertly captioned, there are also color profiles illustrating national, squadron, and personal markings, and pages of line drawing plans illustrating all aspects of the aircraft and it's variants. (I should note that the color profiles are small, and not like those one finds in Windsock datafiles or the Osprey series, but then there are many more of them illustrated on page after page, so that several dozen aircarft are shown in all.)
If you think you already know all there is to know about this very important and much loved (by all her flew it) aircraft, you may well be surprised. I know I was; for example, I thought the Pup derived directly from the 1 1/2 Strutter, but this is not so, as is demonstrated in text and photos.
This book was co-authored by Gordon Page and Ray Sturtivant, whose contributions in research and illustrations should also be mentioned. I recommend it highly if you enjoy, for example, the books of Alex Imrie, Norman Franks, Paul Leaman, or Harry Dempsey.
Format:Hardcover
This is the complete history of the Sopwith Pup and is superbly illustrated and is ably supported by colour profiles and contemporary pictures. Jack Bruce traces the evolution of the Pup from within the Sopwith Zoo to modern day replicas. He gives the history of each aircraft including the ones built by Sopwith, Whitehead and Beardmore. He also gives an insight into the modified Pup built by Beardmore in Scotland.Though for some reason he has the the first flight of some of the machines at Inchinnan whereas they flew from either Dalmuir or Renfrew.
Its an amazing story especially the carrier trials and Dunnings famous death by falling over the side of Furious.You can see this is a lifetimes work and a fitting epitaph - he died on its completion.
The book is over 300 pages on quality art paper with hard covers. It is now out of print and so can be considered highly collectable. But why is it so heavy?
Its an amazing story especially the carrier trials and Dunnings famous death by falling over the side of Furious.You can see this is a lifetimes work and a fitting epitaph - he died on its completion.
The book is over 300 pages on quality art paper with hard covers. It is now out of print and so can be considered highly collectable. But why is it so heavy?
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