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Author: Michael C. Fox
Publisher: Helion & Company
Imprint: Helion & Company
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9781909384149
ISBN 10: 1909384143
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 31 March 2014
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
... an interesting, useful, and detailed narrative. The remaining volumes of the series will be keenly anticipated by enthusiasts and historians alike. -- Aerospace ... Fox has provided a logical and well written analysis of the successes and failures of the British leadership and designers as they grappled with an absolutely untested technology and the consummate risk of getting the answers wrong. -- Air Force Magazine The book as a whole is well written, follows a very logical path and is extremely thorough in its technical coverage. The photographs and line drawings are also excellent. -- War in History
... Fox has provided a logical and well written analysis of the successes and failures of the British leadership and designers as they grappled with an absolutely untested technology and the consummate risk of getting the answers wrong. --Air Force Magazine ... an interesting, useful, and detailed narrative. The remaining volumes of the series will be keenly anticipated by enthusiasts and historians alike. --Aerospace The book as a whole is well written, follows a very logical path and is extremely thorough in its technical coverage. The photographs and line drawings are also excellent. --War in History
Author Information
Michael Fox was born at Farnborough Hospital in Kent during WWII. At the time, his parents were living at Biggin Hill, close to the famous aerodrome, a fact that seems to have impressed upon him an interest in military aviation ever since! He was brought up in South-East London and went into industry as a trainee metallurgist straight from school. He subsequently took an honours degree in metallurgy at Brunel University and returned to industry in the South-East of England as a research metallurgist, working firstly on the development of high temperature steels for the petrochemical and related industries and later on the marine corrosion of non-ferrous alloys. He gave up practical metallurgy upon joining the Standards Division of the British Standards Institution (BSI) in the mid-1970s, rising through a series of management positions to Resource Planning Manager and Departmental head. He left the BSI in 2001, taking the opportunity to begin writing Knights of the Skies, his first book. He is currently working on further volumes in the To Rule the Winds series, as well as a possible series of novels also based upon aspects of military aviation. Michael lives with his wife of over 40 years and a very aggressive (though slowing down) cat in a very un-model village in Kent; their two grown-up daughters and a beautiful grand-daughter live nearby.
