On Silver Wings: RAF Biplane Fighters Between the Wars

by Owen Thetford and Alec Lumsden

The Golden Age of the RAF, the period between the wars, produced a series of elegant and highly nimble biplane fighter aircraft that laid down the foundation for the world famous Spitfire and Hurricane fighters of World War II. This reference source uses a series of articles run over the previous two years in Aeroplane Monthly as a base to describe the British fighter aircraft of this highly colourful period. It profiles all ten fighter types that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855323745
• ISBN13: 9781855323742
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.