No 12 in the ‘From the Cockpit’ series considers the legendary Sea Fury, the Royal Navy’s fastest and most effective single-engine, piston-powered aircraft, and one that even today continues to enthrall both pilots and spectators in its regular flying displays.

Derived, like so many of  the Fleet Air Arm’s indigenously designed aircraft, from a landplane, it escaped the severe cutbacks of the immediate postwar years and saw wide service, distinguishing itself in the Korean War when the FAA carried the burden of the United Kingdom’s aerial offensive.

This is the second ‘From the Cockpit’ title from Captain Alan J. Leahy, the hugely experienced and much-respected naval aviator, following his earlier book covering the Sea Hornet. In this new volume he writes extensively about the targets, tactics and day-to-day experiences of flying combat sorties over Korea , and his detailed text is accompanied by a wide range of contributions from other retired officers, both RN and RNVR, familiar with the Sea Fury.

Specifications

210 × 297 mm, 128 pages (8 in colour), 172  photographs, 33  artworks

ISBN 978 0 946958 73 3

Price £17.95 net