Marked for Death (51 page)

biplanes
46–50

advantages of
47

drag as problem of
49

pusher
18
,
30
,
60–1
,
78
,
87
,
231

tractor
19
,
61
,
78
,
83
,
231
,
319

Bir Qatia
296
,
297

Birley, Lieutenant-Colonel J.L.
165
,
166
,
210

Bishop, Billy
49
,
169
,
182–3
,
198–9
,
227–8

acting as a ‘lone wolf’
199–200

on disadvantages of early shows
182–3

engagement that won him VC (1917)
198–9

engine knowledge
130–1

fame of
201

foraging raids
166

on night flying
115
,
116

questioning of victory claims and scores
198–9
,
200
,
201

VC awarded to
201

Blackadder Goes Forth
(TV comedy series)
6

Blanchard, Sophie
212

Blatchford, Robert
261

Blériot, Louis
43
,
46

flies the Channel (1909)
46
,
71

flying schools
124
,
125
,
131

XI model
46
,
47

Bloody April (1917)
191
,
192
,
216
,
222
,
236

Blue Max medal
185–6

Boelcke, Oswald
184
,
185
,
186
,
189–91
,
202

bombing

by aircraft
113–14
,
118–19

during Second World War
279

bombing raids, British

against German cities
276–7

bombing raids, German
149
,
256
,
258

against Harwich and Felixstowe
272

against London
268
,
270–1

casualties caused by
259

killing of children at Upper North Street School (1917)
268

psychological impact of on Britons
258

Bonnet, Frédéric
235

Booth, Charles

Life and Labour in London
15

Boothby, Squadron-Commander J.R.
238

Bottomley, Horatio
261

Bourhis, Jean
235

box girder
47

Bradshawing
116

Brancker, Major Sefton
19
,
301–2

Bristol (aero company)
23

Britain

modernization of industry
57

naval blockade of German ports
265

pre-war social turmoil in
14–16

shipbuilding
14

British Medical Journal
231

British Somaliland
10

Buckingham bullet
93

Bulgaria
286
,
287

bullets
91–3

Buckingham
93

dum-dum
92

exploding
92

incendiary
92–3

tracers
92

Cairns, Hugh
245

Calthrop, Everard
235
,
237

cambered wing
42
,
47

Canada

and conscription
200–1

evaporation of popular backing for war
200–1

Caproni, Gianni
294

Carpers
44

Cat and Mouse Act (1913)
15–16

Cavell, Edith, execution of
274
,
275

Cayley, George
42

Central Flying School
17
,
123–4
,
127
,
143

Chain Home defence system
37

chemical weapons
93

Childers, Erskine

The Riddle of the Sands
257

Churchill, Winston
257
,
275

Clark, Alan

Aces High
27–8

class

and airmen
217–18

Clausewitz, Carl von
269
,
274

On War
253

Cobb, Irvin S.
277

cockpits
90

Cody, Samuel
17
,
43
,
43–6

Combat Stress Reaction
222

communication
97–9

contact patrols
102–4

wireless
97–9
,
272–3

Compagnie d’Aérostiers
8

compasses
226

Constantine, King of Greece
288

Constantinesco (CC) gear
89

Constantinescu, George
89

contact patrols
102–4

Coppens, Willy
110

Cotton, Sidney
212

Coxwell, Henry
205–6

Curragh Mutiny (1914)
16

Curtiss, Glenn
43
,
44

Curtiss HS-2L flying boats
43

Daily Mail
26

Damascus
302

d’Annunzio, Gabriele
70
,
153
,
294

Dardanelles campaign
286–7
,
296

Darfur
285
,
285–6

d’Arsonval’s chronometer
227

de Havilland, Geoffrey
18
,
43
,
44
,
53
,
147–8

Defence of the Realm Act (DORA)
31

Degelow, Carl
186
,
193
,
197

Department of Military Aeronautics
30

Deperdussin, Armand
43

desert warfare
297

DFW (Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke)
125

Dinar, Ali
285–8

distant offensive patrols (DOPs)
104
,
106–9

dogfights
107–9
,
145
,
182
,
195

dope poisoning
33–4

Douglas, C.G.
207

Douhet, Giulio
72
,
294

Rules for the Use of Aeroplanes in War
69–70

Dowling, Bartholomew
161

down-draughts
290

drag
49

Drama (Greece)
290

dreadnoughts
14

dum-dum bullets
92

Dunne, J.W.
17
,
43

Dyson, Freeman
248

Edwards, Arthur
74

Egypt
283
,
286
,
296–7

electrically heated clothing
213–14

engines, aircraft

knowledge of by pilots
130–1

radial
56

rotary
56–8
,
67

Entente
73–4
,
279
,
282

Euler, August
83

Evans, W.H.B.
45

Faber, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter
26

Farman brothers
43

Fascism

link with flying
153
,
295

Feisal, Prince
302

Ferber, Ferdinand
70

Ferrie, Capt. R.L.M.
233–4

First World War

cost of to Britain
37

death toll of servicemen
1

Fisher, Admiral John
254

Flack, Captain Martin
209
,
229

flamethrower
69

fléchettes
(aeroplane arrows)
77

Fliegerabteilung
(30)
290

flying clubs
124–5

flying schools
124–5

Fokker, Anthony
43
,
46
,
47
,
85
,
116
,
125–6

Flying Dutchman
84

‘Fokker Scourge’ (1915)
25
,
29
,
30
,
86
,
87
,
180

Fonck, René
183
,
202

Ford, Henry
56

France

flying schools
125

sees potential of aviation in war
10

Francis, Lieutenant Duane
78

French aircraft
72

arming of
73

bombing of Moroccan rebels (1912-14)
72

Farman ‘Longhorn’
127
,
182
,
298

Farman M.F.11 ‘Shorthorn’ (‘Rumpety’)
75
,
78
,
127–9
,
139

Hanriot HD.1
110

Hanriot HD.3
320

‘Henri Paul’ triplane bomber
69

Nieuport ‘Bébé’
29
,
189

Nieuport sesquiplane
49

‘Parasol’ monoplane
85

Sopwith 3.F.2 Hippo
320

SPAD S.VII
239

SPAD S.XIII
63
,
66

SPAD XII fighter
83

weaponry used on board
79

French, Field Marshal Viscount Sir John
272

French pilots

aces
183

and parachutes
240

training of
130–2
,
144

Fryatt, Captain Charles, execution of
274
,
275–6

Futurism
153

g-forces

contending with by pilots
229–30

Gallipoli campaign
286–7
,
296

Garros, Roland
85
,
181

Gast machine gun
69

Gavotti, Lieutenant Giulio
70
,
256

Geneva Disarmament Conference
278

Genevieve
(film)
7

George V, King
281
,
285

German aces
184
,
185–7
,
188–97

awarding of Blue Max to
185–6

and Boelcke
184
,
185
,
186
,
189–91
,
202

feedback between aircraft industry and
186–7

and Immelmann
80
,
184
,
185
,
186
,
189
,
201

and Richthofen
see
Richthofen, Manfred von

Voss
192
,
195–6

German Air Force
73

air strategy
253

pilot as subordinate to observer
79

German aircraft
67
,
83
,
181
,
182

Albatros D.1
190

Albatros D.III
191
,
196
,
207
,
230

Fokker Dr.I
48
,
195

Fokker D.VII
63
,
65
,
67
,
118
,
196

Fokker E series
182

Fokker E.1
Eindecker
20–1
,
46
,
85–7
,
88
,
179

Fokker F.1
196

Gotha bombers
258
,
260
,
267
,
268
,
270
,
272

Junkers J.1
50
,
106

Pfalz D.III
65

‘Taube’-type monoplanes
83

weaponry used on board
79

Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI bombers
112
,
273

German airships
72–3

bombing of England by
256

see also
Zeppelins

German pilots
179–80
,
182
,
247

and parachutes
237

training of
132
,
134
,
144

German Spring Offensive (1918)
153–4
,
165–6

Germany

and aviation medicine
218

bombing raids against England
see
bombing raids, German

bombing of Scarborough and Hartlepool by warships
254–5

early view of aviation potential in war
10

flying schools
125

reprisal bombing raids by Britain against cities
276–7

and total war concept
253
,
254–5

U-boat fleet
32
,
253
,
255
,
262

unrest in
302

Gibson, Guy
167

Glaisher, James
205

gliders
42

Gnome
56

goggles
243–4

Gosport
143–6
,
147

Grahame-White, Claude
43
,
124–5
,
129

Greece
287–8

Greenhous, Brereton
198

Grey, Charles G.
23–4
,
27

Grider, John MacGavock
137–40
,
146
,
165

Grierson, Lieutenant-General Sir James
9

Grinnell-Milne, Duncan
22

Grosz, Peter
65

Guglielminetti-Draeger Respiratory Apparatus
209

Gulf War (1991)
279

Guynemer, Georges
202
,
239

Hadley, Dunstan
53
,
55

Hague Convention (1907)
71
,
92
,
93

Hague Declaration (1899)
93

Haig, GeneralSir Douglas
9
,
269
,
272

Haldane, J.S.
207