Aerei Gloster: libri illustrati di storia e guide

Gladiator vs CR.42 Falco - 1940-41 (Osprey)

Sia il Gloster Gladiator che il Fiat CR.42 Falco rappresentarono l'apice dello sviluppo del caccia biplano, le cui origini risalivano alla Prima Guerra Mondiale. Tuttavia, quando entrambi gli aerei entrarono in servizio alla fine degli anni '30, erano già obsoleti. Ciononostante, si distinsero per il loro eccellente servizio su tutti i fronti del Mediterraneo e dell'Africa nel 1940-41.

In effetti, il CR.42 fu il caccia principale della Regia Aeronautica sia in Nord Africa che in Africa orientale, in Grecia e su Malta nel 1940-41, periodo durante il quale i suoi piloti combatterono regolarmente contro gli squadroni britannici e del Commonwealth equipaggiati principalmente con biplani Gladiator.
Tra questi due tipi di velivoli si verificarono aspri combattimenti aerei, mentre gli Alleati cercavano di ottenere il controllo dei cieli del Nord Africa, della Grecia e dell'Africa orientale. Entrambi i tipi erano pilotati principalmente da piloti esperti del periodo prebellico, il che a sua volta diede luogo a scontri molto combattuti.

Il primo scontro noto tra il CR.42 e il Gladiator ebbe luogo il 14 giugno 1940 sul Nord Africa, mentre l'ultimo confronto tra i due tipi di aereo si verificò il 24 ottobre 1941 sul fronte dell'Africa orientale.

Dettagli

Autore:	Hakan Gustavsson, Ludovico Slongo
Formato:	80 pagine, 25 x 18.5 x 1 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	riccamente illustrato con foto e disegni (in B&N e in colori)
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2012)
Collana:	Duel (47)
ISBN:	9781849087087

Gloster Aircraft Company

The Gloster Aircraft Company had its foundation in 1917 and in 1934 the company was taken over by Hawker Aircraft, though it continued to produce aircraft under its own name. In that same year the company produced the famous Gladiator biplane.

Having no modern designs of its own in production, Gloster undertook manufacture for the parent company Hawker. During the Second World War it built more than 6,000 Hurricanes and Typhoons.

The Gloster Meteor was the first operational Allied jet fighter aircraft of the Second World War, commencing operations in mid-1944, only some weeks later than the world's first operational jet, the German Messerschmitt Me 262. In 1945 a Meteor gained a World Airspeed Record of 606 mph.
Meteors remained in service with several air forces and saw action in the Korean War.
In 1952, the two seat, delta winged Gloster Javelin was developed as an all-weather fighter that could fly above 50,000 feet.

In 1961, the company was merged with Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Limited. Following re-organisation, the firm became part of the Avro Whitworth Division of Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1963, and the name Gloster disappeared.

This well-illustrated book describes the story of Gloster and its aircraft.

Dettagli

Autore:	Derek James
Formato:	192 pagine, 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.2 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	200 foto in B&Nen viste di profilo
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Fonthill Media (GB, 2013)
ISBN:	9781781552599

Gloster Aircraft Company (Images of England)

Today it is difficult to imagine that the parishes of Hucclecote and Brockworth once were home to one of Britain's major manufacturers. Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H.H. Martyn & Company and Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, produced some 10,000 aeroplanes between 1917 and 1963.
It also provided employment for countless thousands of local people. During World War II alone it employed 14,000 men and women working at the main factory and at 40 sites dispersed in Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and other more distant parts of Gloucestershire.

Gloster designed a number of outstanding fighter aircraft which were built in large numbers; it also produced many prototypes which failed to win orders and very many more projects which never left the drawing board.
By chance the company was chosen to design and build Britain's first jet aircraft and followed by building 4,000 jet fighters for the Royal Air Force and a dozen air forces around the world.

Gloster finally became the first victim of a programme of political and economic stringency which has since decimated British aircraft manufacturing companies. This album portrays some of those people who worked 'up at the 'drome for GAC' and the works of their hands.

Dettagli

Autore:	Derek James
Formato:	160 pagine, 23 x 16.5 x 1.3 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	riccamente illustrato con foto in B&N
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	The History Press Ltd (GB, 2009)
ISBN:	9780752400389

Gloster Gauntlet

The Gloster Gauntlet was a British single-seat biplane fighter of the RAF, designed and built by the Gloster Aircraft Company in the 1930s. It was the last RAF fighter to have an open cockpit and its penultimate biplane fighter in service. It was also Britain's most successful and popular inter-war fighter aircraft.

This book offers a complete and comprehensive history of the development and service of the plane, plus scale plans, photographs and drawings from pre-war technical manuals, scale plans, rare b+w period photographs, superb colour illustrations of camouflage and markings and walk-around colour photographs of the sole surviving examples. A rarely documented aspect of pre-World War II aviation history.

Revised and expanded version of the material published in Bristol Bulldog & Gloster Gauntlet (August 2005, ISBN 9788389450043).

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Autore:	Alex Crawford
Formato:	96 pagine, 23 x 16.5 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	riccamente illustrato con foto in B&N e in colori, disegni
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	MMP Books (PL, 2017)
ISBN:	9788365281616

Gloster Gladiator Mk I and II (and Sea Gladiator)

The Gloster Gladiator was the very last biplane fighter to enter service with the RAF. Yet, despite being one of the fastest biplanes ever built, it was already obsolete upon its introduction to service in January 1937. Nonetheless, in the first eighteen months of WW2, it garnered many combat plaudits in the skies over the frozen Arctic, the sun-kissed Mediterranean, and the arid deserts of Africa.
In Britain, it provided crucial defense of the RN Fleet anchored at Scapa Flow, and was among the first aircraft sent to France to aid the BEF. Adopted early-on by the FAA and renamed Sea Gladiator, for a time this navalized version represented the nearest thing the service had to a modern fighter as it struggled toward parity with its Axis opponents.

This book tells the complete story. The text covers not only the type?s remarkable operational history, but also that of Gloster?s journey to its production. Also examined are the Gladiator?s design and construction, and its subsequent technical development. Second-line duties and service with foreign air forces are also briefly covered.
Supporting lavish artwork and 3-D exploded views vividly bring the aircraft to life, making it an ideal reference work for the modeler.

Dettagli

Autore:	Adam Cotton, Marek Rys
Formato:	215 pagine, 29.5 x 21 x 1.3 cm, brossura
Illustrazioni:	120 foto in B&N, 3-D viste esplose
Lingua:	inglese
Editore:	Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza (PL, 2019)
ISBN:	9788365437860