(Ebook) The Bird Farm - Carrier Aviation In WWII And Since by Philip Kaplan ISBN 9781634504829, 9781634505550, 1634504828, 1634505557

(Ebook) The Bird Farm - Carrier Aviation In WWII And Since by Philip Kaplan ISBN 9781634504829, 9781634505550, 1634504828, 1634505557

I remember the jokes about sabotage and Dublin,

The noisy jungle of cranes and sheerlegs, the clangour,

The draft in February of a thousand matelots from Devonport,

Surveying anxiously my enormous flight-deck and hangar.

— From “HMS Glory” by Charles Causley

How does it feel to sit aboard a thirty-ton jet and be hurled over a ship’s bow at over 140 miles per hour? 

How does a deck crew coordinate its efforts to achieve such a feat every thirty seconds?

Offering a rare glimpse of life aboard an Naval Aircraft Carrier, The Bird Farm, paints a vivid and often hair-raising portrait of the men and women who operate military Aircraft Carriers and their combined Naval and Air Crews, and of the different types of Aircraft that operate off of them. 

Based on archival research and interviews with veterans and contemporary carrier personnel from across the world, this stunning volume tells the story of the Naval Aircraft Carrier - from the first primitive seaplanes launched off battleships, through to the seaplane carriers and fleet carriers of both world wars, to the carriers of today’s nuclear-powered navy.

This history celebrates their undeniable impact on modern naval aviation and in the field of air warfare, as well as examining their operational history from their creation upto their service in the 1990s gulf war.