Reviews for British Naval Aircraft since 1912

The average rating for British Naval Aircraft since 1912 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-28 00:00:00 Matthew Reddekopp A useful reference book in terms of purely objective data (how fast the aircraft was, what it looked like, etc.) but Thetford is extremely generous in his assessment of virtually every aircraft in the book, and glosses over a lot of bad points. The Fairey Barracuda, for instance, was designed as a torpedo bomber but was too underpowered to carry a torpedo(!) so it became a dive bomber, but it was too heavy to dive safely, so it be became a glide bomber, and then it turned out to occasionally crash for no reason and was expeditiously replaced by American-built Avengers, but Thetford calls it "on the whole successful".

Review # 2 was written on 2014-01-08 00:00:00 Rob Lotta A nostalgic travel through past and present of uisge beatha, water of life, also known as whisky, or scotch. In the first part the author reminiscenses upon his own childhood in highlands, near his grandpa's malt distillery, the importance of malt whisky in scottish life, and the history of production of the beverage and the struggle with government's efforts to legalize it. The second part is dedicated to beginnings of blended whisky and great whisky barons of 19 and 20 centuries, and the book ends with ruminations upon present and future of whisky. Makes you yearn for just a dram o'malt. As the saying goes 'One is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough'.