Wind in the Wires...but not a panorama...

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	• Sopwith Scout 7309 Patrick Gordon Taylor Cassell, 1968 - 177 pages average customer review:based on 1 review
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Wind in the Wires...but not a panorama...

Sopwith Scout is a wonderful read about the adventures of a R.F.C. pilot in 1917 in the air wars on the Western Front. Taylor writes with confidence and humility, true to that tradition of British military writing that avoids the glamor, flag-waving, and "splatter-punk" of comparable American military stories. He puts you right in the cockpit of a Sopwith Pup, but downplays the violence of war. You feel the wind in your hair, and feel enthused with a desire to fly and to experience the rapture. I think Taylor would have gotten along wonderfully with Richard Bach. That being said, there is less about World War One than you might expect, and nothing about aircraft design. If you want to understand fighter tactics, this is not your best source, but if you want to know what it was like to be THERE in a Sopwith Pup with two-gun Albatri all around blasting at you, this is it.
"...turning...turning...turning..." is how he recollects his primary combat maneuver, which is not surprising, when you consider that his Sopwith Pup had a rotary engine and light wing loading that gave it wonderful flying characteristics as long as one did not wish to fly in a rigid straight line. The Pup's primary advantage over the heavier German Albatross was its superior maneuverability, a fact corroborated by the Red Baron himself.

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