Andrew Hendrie

Short Sunderland

The "Flying Porcupines" in the Second World War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"First published in Great Britain in 1994 by Airlife Publishing Ltd."--Title page perso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9781848847798
• ISBN-10: 1848847793
• Artikelnr.: 35248469

Autorenporträt

After completing a tour of operations on Lockheed Hudsons during the Second World War, ANDREW HENDRIE logged flights on over seventy Sunderlands, largely air tests of machines delivered by the Short's factories at Belfast and Windermere. He then began a second tour on Vickers Wellingtons. Post-war, Andrew joined the RAFVR. After 1980 he began researching and writing books about maritime flying operations. His first title, Seek and Strike: The Lockheed Hudson in World War II, was published in 1983. Andrew passed away in 2004.