RAF Hendon: Birthplace of Aerial Power: The Birthplace of Aerial Power

by Andrew Renwick

If any one airfield in the world could claim to be the home of military aviation, RAF Hendon has to be the no.1 contender. The story starts over 150 years ago in August 1862, when one Henry Treacey Coxwell took a party on a balloon flight from the present-day Hendon site. In was not an auspicious start - suffering from light winds they only just reached a field near Mill Hill. Aviation returned to Hendon in 1910 in the form of British aviation pioneer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955426863
• ISBN13: 9780955426865
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Crecy Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.7" x 10.5"