The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain by Coles, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Preface Chapter 1 - Robert Watson-Watt – Radar’s Inventor

Early radar – Chain Home (CH) Range Bearing Height finding CRT display – X-Y and PPI The coming of mono-static radar CHL, CHEL and AI – Watson-Watt and Bowen ASV and other developments The Battle of Britain The London Blitz Knickebein X-Gerät The Coventry Blitz Luftwaffe raids on other towns The British counter-strikes – ASV The Bruneval raid GEE Oboe H2S Window – passive jamming Active jamming Decca navigator A summary of Robert Watson-Watt’s work Notes on CH system p.r.f. and range

Chapter 2 - Frederick Henry Royce and the Merlin Chapter 3 - Sydney Camm – The Designer of the Hurricane

The man The Hurricane – the move to monoplanes Manufacture and materials – simplicity or complexity Wood versus metal and construction details Engine, in-line or radial Merlin engine types for each Hurricane mark Fixed or variable pitch propeller Fuselage-fitted armament The wing The wing’s armament capacity The tail assembly Fin and rudder Instrumentation Hurricane development Sea Hurricanes Other design variants Summary

Chapter 4 - Reginald Joseph Mitchell and the Spitfire Chapter 5 - The German Terror Weapons

The V-1 The V-2 The V-3 The Horten Flying Wing

Epilogue Bibliography Index

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