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Wings over water, the story of the world's greatest air race and the birth of the Spitfire, Jonathan Glancey

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Wings over water, the story of the world's greatest air race and the birth of the Spitfire, Jonathan Glancey
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Wings over water
Responsibility statement
Jonathan Glancey
Sub title
the story of the world's greatest air race and the birth of the Spitfire
Summary
Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy stole the imaginations of pioneering aircraft manufacturers in America, France, Britain and Italy, as they competed in a series of air races that attracted a hugely popular following. Perhaps inevitably, the dynamism of rival engineering led to the most potent military fighters of World War Two and Reginald Mitchell's record-breaking supermarine seaplanes morphed into the Spitfire. 'Wings Over Water' tells the story of the Schneider air races afresh and also examines the wider politics and society of the early twentieth-century that framed the event
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