British imperial air power : the Royal Air Forces and the defense of Australia and New Zealand between the world wars /

"British Imperial Air Power examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. It also demonstrates the difficulty of applying new military aviation technology to the defense of the global Empire and provides insight into the nature of the political relationship b...

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Main Author: Spencer, Alex M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2020]
Series:Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics.
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Table of Contents:
  • The First Imperial Air Defense Schemes, 1918-1919
  • The Formation of the Royal Australian Air Force and the First Reassessments of Pacific Defenses, 1920-1921
  • The Empire's Air Defense: The Geddes Cuts of 1922, and the 1923 Imperial Conference and Their Influence on the Empire's Air Defense, 1922-1923
  • The Royal Air Force and Postwar Air Transport Defense Planning and the Airmail Scheme, 1919-1939
  • Airships and the Empire: Defense, Schemes, and Disaster, 1919-1930
  • Air Defense and the Labour Party: Singapore Naval Base and the 1926 Imperial Conference, 1924-1926
  • Imperial Air Mobility, the Salmond Report, and Air Marshal Trenchard's Last Salvo, 1927-1929
  • Depression and Disarmament, 1929-1933
  • The International Crises and Imperial Rearmament, 1934-1936
  • The Final Preparations, 1937-1940.