Until I spend a day in the archives at the Fleet Air Arm Museum next week I’m treading water; with the bulk of Fairey’s postwar papers to be found at the RAF Museum this will be my last trip to Yeovilton. Once I have looked at the remaining boxes in the FAAM’s Cobham Hall (a …
Monthly Archive: June 2016
Jun 10
Today 100 years ago the Grand Fleet leaves Scapa Flow and Rosyth …
Having written so much about naval aviation in the course of writing The Man Who Built the Swordfish: Sir Richard Fairey, 1887-1956 (still a working title, but the title given to the most likely publisher – with a much belated submission date of this time next year), it would be remiss of me not to …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
