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The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics. Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more aircraft took to the skies, their pilots began to develop tactics to take down enemy aviators. Though the infantry in their muddy trenches might see aerial combat as glorious and chivalric, the reality for these ‘Knights of the Sky’ was very different and undeniably deadly: new Royal Flying Corps subalterns in 1917 had a life expectancy of 11 days. In 1915 the term ‘ace’ was coined to denote a pilot adept at downing enemy aircraft, and top aces like the Red Baron, René Fonck and Billy Bishop became household names. The idea of the ace continued after the 1918 Armistice, but as the size of air forces increased, the prominence of the ace diminished. But still, the pilots who swirled and danced in Hurricanes and Spitfires over southern England in 1940 were, and remain, feted as ‘the Few’ who stood between Britain and invasion. Flying aircraft advanced beyond the wildest dreams of Great War pilots, the ‘top’ fighter aces of World War II would accrue hundreds of kills, though their life expectancy was still measured in weeks, not years. World War II cemented the vital role of air power, and postwar innovation gave fighter pilots jet-powered fighters, enabling them to pursue duels over huge areas above modern battlefields. This entertaining introduction explores the history and cult of the fighter ace from the first pilots through late 20th century conflicts, which leads to discussion of whether the era of the fighter ace is at an end.

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Cette nouvelle édition critique de Vol de nuit, retrace, grâce à une étude minutieuse du manuscrit autographe, la genèse de ce roman d'après les lieux où il a été rédigé. Elle met en lumière la dimension secrètement autobiographique de ce récit à la fois réaliste et poétique d'un pionnier de l'aviation de ligne qui est aussi un grand écrivain. L'esthétique novatrice, même si elle demeure classique, fait revivre l'aventure de grandes figures de pilotes et celle d'un personnage de chef exigeant dont le sens inflexible du devoir est humanisé dans un récit pudique, silencieux, discrètement lyrique. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry a transfiguré ses propres aventures et celles de ses meilleurs camarades, en estompant la dimension autobiographique, ce que montre l'analyse des corrections et des suppressions dans le manuscrit. Il a su créer en 1931 un roman original, en stylisant l'expérience d'un rapport neuf à la nature et au monde grâce à l'avion et lui a donné la tonalité d'un « nocturne » au sens musical du terme.

French literature --- Air pilots --- Air pilots - Fiction

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Drone aircraft pilots --- Combat