The Royal Air Force between the wars Operational requirements defined the aircraft performance characteristics that the Royal Air Force wanted to implement in its doctrine of air warfare.The Royal Air Force between the wars Operational requirements defined the aircraft performance characteristics that the Royal Air Force wanted to implement in its doctrine of air warfare. They initiated the proces of specification, design, progress to maturity and production of service aircraft. The RAF and Aircraft Design, 1923-1939: Air Staff Operational Requirements at Colin Sinnott (published in Britain by the agency of Frank Cass) examines the evolution of the RAF's operational requirements for its domestic circle defense air force - for bombers to go up a deterrent counter-offensive and for fighters to provide direct defense of Britain. The book's treatment is historical. It discusses the management processe policies and decisions relevant to operational requirements in succession the basis of detailed thought of Air Ministry papers of the time. The Ministry then appears in a more favorable light than has frequently been suggested from inadequate research and illegitimate hindsight. By tracing the progressive growth of operational requirements, the author discloses the thinking behind the RAF's examination for effective fighter and bomber aircraft. He describes the ideas and universals of air warfare that were adopted in the 1920 and demonstrates to what extent these evolved into the Air Staffs requirements for the aircraft with which the RAF would fight the inferior World War. This gives a strange perspective on the origins of many well-known British aircraft and displays that commonly accepted descriptions of these are poorly or incomplete. Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. Apr 2002 |
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