Название: Halifax: Second to None
Автор: Victor Bingham
Издательство: Airlife Publishing
ISBN: 0906393663
Год издания: 1986
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 195
Формат: PDF
Размер: 60,2 MB

Some aircraft in wartime are the focus of publicity and propaganda while others soldier on, superb in many roles. The aircraft that is the subject of this book was of the latter type. Her crews were proud of her, glad of her strong construction; built well and well-built, she struck at the German heartland flown by crews handling their first fourengined bomber. Halifax was her name, she was built by Handley Page - and to her crews she was second to none. Designed to a specification that only the Halifax came near to fulfilling by a team and a firm that was in later years, shattered and killed by Government intervention, the Halifax survived a change of engines, changes in design, changes in role, to emerge again and again as a great aircraft, an aircraft of all seasons and scenarios, until finally, fitted with Hercules engines she was superb...