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MASON,FRANCIS K: : TORNADO

UK.WELLINGBOROUGH.PSL.1986.

ISBN 0850597722.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Colour photographic illustrated wraps, back and front; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges with two tiny,closed nicks to both top+bottom corners of rear inner flap.Upper flap has light indents/scored lines - else fine. Head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore- edges clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Unblemished,plain green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and b/w photographic endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-216pp includes half-title+title pages,contents list,foreword,an introduction,7 chapters,profuse b/w contemporary photographs,b/w diagrams,8pp colour photographs,appendices(3) includes a glossary of abbreviations and an index. Now in service with the air forces of Great Britain,West Germany and Italy,as well as with the German Navy,and ordered by Saudi Arabia in the biggest export order the British aircraft industry has ever received,Tornado is in all respects an outstanding combat aircraft.Able to fly very fast at extremely low level and destroy its target with pinpoint accuracy regardless of light or weather conditions and,in its air superiority role,able to intercept and shoot down any potentially hostile aircraft,it is the most advanced ground-attack and interceptor fighter in the world. The Panavia Multi-Role Combat Aircraft project which led to Tornado is,quite simply,the largest international military project ever undertaken in Europe - and is certainly the most expensive.It was forseen twenty years ago that many European air forces would need replacements in the 1980's for what would then be their ageing squadrons of Starfighters or Lightnings and Canberras. After the demise of TSR2,an aircraft with remarkable potential but killed by a rapacious government,it soon became apparent that no single European government could afford the enormous cost of funding the type of powerful and sophisticated machine which the combat environment of the future would require. The swing-wing Tornado,with its advanced fly-by-wire avionics and computerized navigation system,and with its devastating weapon-carrying capability,speed and manoeuvrability,is a miracle of international co-operation.This fine book describes how the concept evolved,taking the story through the prototype trials into the production stage and the aircrafts entry into squadron service,and also relates it successes in bombing competitions and its export potential. Written with the full co-operation of the manufacturers as well as current squadron pilots and navigators,this heavily illustrated book is the most definitive and readable on the subject to date (then 1986). Frank Mason is a former RAF night fighter pilot who later worked in the Project Office at Hawker Aircraft Ltd under the late Sir Sydney Camm.He subsequently established his own publishing and research companies and has written many books including earlier titles on the Hunter,Harrier,Phanthom and Hercules for PSL. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

MASON, Francis K : Tornado

Patrick Stephens Limited, 1986

A fine unread copy in a fine d.w.

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