New Book from Specialty Press

摘要

RAF Hendon, The Birthplace of Aerial Power, by Andrew Renwick, documents the landmark events at this historic airfield and highlights the aviation pioneers that secured Hendon's lasting place in aviation history. The story starts more than 150 years ago in August 1862, when one Henry Treacey Coxwell took a party on a balloon flight from the present-day Hendon site. Aviation returned to Hendon in 1910 in the form of British aviation pioneer Claude Grahame-White, who laid the foundations for the development of the Hendon site that was soon christened "The London Aerodrome." The fledgling airfield hosted nine Air Displays in the years leading up to World War I, before being requisitioned for pilot training and the air defense of London. Aircraft were also manufactured here.