RACING ACE: THE FIGHTS AND FLIGHTS OF SAMUEL 'KINK' KINKEAD

摘要

Like all of the pilots selected for the RAF's High Speed Flight (HSF) in the interwar years, Samuel Kinkead, familiarly known as "Kink", was an exceptional aviator. After joining the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in 1915 he served in the Dardanelles and then on the Western Front, where he converted from the Sopwith Triplane to the demanding but potent Camel and emerged from the war as an RAF fighter pilot with four awards for gallantry. He then went to Russia, winning the DFC for courageous ground-attack operations in that country's civil war.