Summary of Hugh Dundas's Flying Start

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The first dogfight was a introduction to the use of guns in earnest and the terrifying quality of air fighting. I was close to panic in the bewilderment and hot fear of that first dogfight.
#2 I was transformed, Walter Mitty-like, when I shot down my first enemy aircraft. I was so excited that I did not realize that I was flying the wrong direction toward the land. I turned back the way I came, thinking I could crash-land somewhere off Dunkirk and get home in a boat.
#3 I had been fascinated by the idea of war from an early age. I knew every picture in The Times History of the Great War and its sister volume about the Boer War. I gazed fascinated at the drawings and photographs of gallant Britons engaging the enemy in every kind of situation.
#4 The pilots of the Auxiliary Air Force were lawyers and farmers, stockbrokers and journalists. They had a passion for flying and a fierce determination that anything the regulars could do, the auxiliaries could do better.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Military
• World War II
• History
• Seconde Guerre mondiale

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 05 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822528185
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Hugh Dundas's Flying Start
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The first dogfight was a introduction to the use of guns in earnest and the terrifying quality of air fighting. I was close to panic in the bewilderment and hot fear of that first dogfight.

#2

I was transformed, Walter Mitty-like, when I shot down my first enemy aircraft. I was so excited that I did not realize that I was flying the wrong direction toward the land. I turned back the way I came, thinking I could crash-land somewhere off Dunkirk and get home in a boat.

#3

I had been fascinated by the idea of war from an early age. I knew every picture in The Times History of the Great War and its sister volume about the Boer War. I gazed fascinated at the drawings and photographs of gallant Britons engaging the enemy in every kind of situation.

#4

The pilots of the Auxiliary Air Force were lawyers and farmers, stockbrokers and journalists. They had a passion for flying and a fierce determination that anything the regulars could do, the auxiliaries could do better.

#5

In every auxiliary squadron I ever knew, there was an exceptional spirit of enthusiasm and joie de vivre. This auxiliary spirit was born in White’s Club, during the 1920s, when Lord Edward Grosvenor, a large and florid aristocrat, presided over the table there.

#6

The auxiliary squadrons were modeled after the ones at Hendon, and they saw that the Hendon squadrons put so much time and effort into their training that their flying hours matched those of most regular squadrons.

#7

I was recruited into 609 Squadron, based at Doncaster. I had hoped to go to Oxford, but my father decided that a professional qualification was more useful to me than a degree. I was articled to our family solicitors, Messrs Newman and Bond.

#8

I had failed the medical examination twice more, and was considering joining the Yorkshire Dragoons. Someone pulled some strings and I was seen by the senior medical officer from 12 Group Headquarters, O’Malley. He said that no further examination was necessary.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had a room at the squadron mess in Doncaster, and I could stay there as much as I liked. The CO, Lord Lincoln, was there most of the time. Teddy St Aubyn, a Lincolnshire landowner, had taken to the air after resigning his commission in the Grenadier Guards, and he was there with other members of the squadron.

#2

I loved Bawtry. I loved my aunt and uncle, who were unendingly and unfailingly kind and generous to me. I did not know that I was living through the twilight days of their house and home, and that Bawtry would soon cease to exist as we had known it and loved it.

#3

I was able to spend a lot of time at the airfield during the week, which allowed me to get in more hours of flying than the other pupil pilots. I was able to spend most of my time practicing loops and stall turns, which I had difficulty with slow rolls.

#4

I was excited to be able to fly over the English Channel and see France for the first time. I lived in tents at Manston, and in the mornings we would fly when the sun was low and the mist still lay in the valleys.

#5

The day after the visit from Leigh-Mallory, we knew we would not be going back to our civilian jobs when camp ended. We were to fly back to Doncaster the next day. I thought, Well, that’s the end of the old solicitor’s office for me. Then I thought, Now I will be relatively rich.

#6

I had started my graduation from initial trainers to service planes. I was let loose for the first time in a Gauntlet. It was like finding oneself in charge of a vintage Bentley after having spent time in an old Austin tourer.

#7

I was given my Wings around the second week of September.