To rule the winds: the evolution of the British fighter force through two world wars 1 Prelude to air war - the years to 1914
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
viii
List of Tables
xiii
Author s Preface and Acknowledgements
xiv
1
Introduction
19
1.1.
The dawn of the aeroplane
19
1.2.
Setting the scene: Aeroplanes for fighting
22
2
Aircraft for the military
24
2.1.
Balloons in war
24
2.2.
Balloons for Offensive purposes
26
2.2.1.
The Napoleonic Wars
26
2.2.2.
Mr Warner
s
Inventions
2 7
2.2.3.
The Crimean War
33
2.3.
The Balloon Factory at Aldershot
33
2.4.
The Balloon Factory
—
From balloons to aeroplanes
37
2.5.
The Flying Machine in War
43
2.6.
Flying experiments at the Factory
46
2.7.
The Sub-Committee, of the Committee of Imperial Defence, on
Aerial Navigation
52
2.8.
The Prime Minister s Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
59
2.9.
Invasion by air
—
a new possibility
62
2.10.
Aeroplanes for war
63
2.11.
Aeroplane work at the Factory
-
A new beginning
68
2.12
An official Report on progress in foreign countries
80
2.13.
Developments in the United States of America.
84
3
The Air Battalion, Royal Engineers
89
3.1.
Foreign firsts for military aviation
89
3.1.1.
Mexico
89
3.1.2.
Libya
90
3.2.
The Air Battalion is formed
95
3.3.
The Military aeroplane type emerges
107
3.4.
The Standing Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial
Defence on Aerial Navigation and the formation of the Air Committee
121
vi
To Rule the Winds Volume
1
3.4.1.
The Standing Sub-Committee Enquiry into Aerial Navigation
121
3.4.2
The Technical Sub-Committee
123
3.4.3.
The Air Committee
129
4
The Royal Flying Corps
130
4.1.
Recommendations for a military air service
130
4.2.
The Army Estimates for
1912-13 135
4.3.
The Government s
1912
Scheme for Naval and Military Aviation
-
The Royal Flying Corps comes into being
135
4.4.
The Military Aeroplane Competition of August
1912 140
4.5.
The British monoplane crisis of
1912 144
4.6.
The Army
manœuvres
1912 148
4.7.
Military aviation progress around the world:
1912 148
4.7.1.
Report on European Airships
148
4.7.2.
General Staff report on Aeronautical Matters in Foreign
Countries for
1912 151
4.7.3.
The Paris Aero Salon,
1912 154
4.7.4.
The Balkan Wars of
1912
and
1913 155
4.7.5.
Mexico
156
4.8.
The state of military aeroplane designs by
1913
-The 4th
International Aero Show at
Olympia
157
4.9.
Military Aviation
-
A lecture by Major
F H
Sykes on the use of
aeroplanes in war
158
4.10.
The organisation of a military air force
-
Lessons from the Army
manœuvres
and Captain Fox s conclusions
161
4.11.
British military designs during
1913 -
Progress at the Factory
163
4.12.
Shortages of aeroplanes for the Military Wing: The Army
Estimates for
1913-1914
and Our Phantom Air Squadron
167
4.13.
Continued shortages of aeroplanes for the Military Wing -The
War Establishment for Mobilisation
181
5 1914
-Aeroplanes for War
187
5.1.
Criticisms of the Factory
187
5.2.
The fighting pushers
189
5.3.
The
Olympia
Aero Show, March
1914 191
5.4.
Change at the War Office
191
5.5.
More news from abroad
192
5.6.
The employment of aeroplanes in war
-
General principles, June
1914 193
5.6.1.
Fighting in and from the air
193
5.6.2.
The
1914
Training Manual
194
5.7.
Early considerations of aeroplane performance
196
5.8.
July
1914 -
The Royal Flying Corps prepares for war
206
Contents
vii
6
Aircraft
armament
experiments before the
First World War 216
6.1.
Aeroplanes and weaponry
216
6.2.
Foreign experiments
220
6.3.
Early British experiments in air gunnery
223
6.3.1.
Can an aeroplane be hit and destroyed by gunfire?
223
6.3.2.
Experiments by the Naval Wing
224
6.4.
Experiments carried out by the RFC (Military Wing) in
association with the Army Aircraft Factory
230
6.5.
Ammunition for use against aircraft
249
7
Wireless/Telegraphy communications in and from the air
—
Pre-
War beginnings
250
7.1.
Experiments by the Royal Engineers
—
Airships
250
7.2.
Experiments by the Royal Engineers
—
Aeroplanes
251
7.3.
Wireless experiments by the Air Battalion and the Factory
253
7.4.
Wireless experiments by the Naval Wing
254
7.5.
Wireless experiments in other countries
257
7.6.
Wireless experiments by the Military Wing
259
8
The origins of an Air Ministry: Attempts to co-ordinate Britain s
Air Services before the war
267
8.1.
Two Services —Two Air Services
267
8.2.
The Home Ports Defence Committee
268
8.3
The Air Committee
271
9
Preparations for Home Defence against Air Bombardment
274
9.1.
The Hague Conventions of
1899
and
1907 274
9.2.
The beginnings of Britain s Home Defence
275
9.3.
The RNAS and Home Defence
280
10
Afterword
282
Notes
284
Bibliography
294
Index
302
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