Publisher's Synopsis
In April 2018 the RAF celebrated its first hundred years. And yet its very survival seemed highly questionable in the decade that followed the end of the First World War. The British Army and the Royal Navy, very much set in their ways, could not see the point in having a new fighting division established in their midst. Aircraft, aviation and flying were interesting, but not in the sphere of national defence or conflict. It took the efforts of far-sighted and practical men to convince their superiors that military aviation had a future. The fate of the British aircraft industry hung in the balance too in the mid-1920s. This book charts the survival of the RAF and the industry that supported it in those difficult between the wars years.
