Felixstowe F.4 Fury from the front

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Felixstowe F.4 Fury from the front
Here we see the Felixstowe F.4 Fury from the front, showing the massive size of its triplane wings, and the five engines mounted on the middle wing. In the centre is one pusher engine, most obvious here because of the vertical radiator. On either side are paired pusher and tractor engines, sharing a central radiator.
The Royal Navy's Air Service in the Great War, David Hobbs. An impressive history of the RNAS, the organisation that developed many of the principles of naval aviation while under intense pressure during the First World War, only to disappear into the RAF in 1918. Traces the impressive development of the service, which ended the war on the verge of attempting a massed torpedo bomber attack on the German fleet in its anchorages, a precursor of Taranto and Pearl Harbor that was only abandoned because of the end of the war (Read Full Review)
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