Against the Sun: Story of Wing Commander Roland Beamont by Edward Lanchbery.
Against the Sun: Story of Wing Commander Roland Beamont by Edward Lanchbery.
Publisher: Cassell, 1955, First Edition.
Good hardback, no jacket. Blue cloth boards are rubbed at edges. Spine has dark spotty marks. No inscriptions, light tanning and foxing to pages. 270 pages, illustrated.
English Electric s P.1, Britain s first truly supersonic fighter was credited with exceeding the speed of sound in straight and level flight. And the man who flew it was Wing Commander Roland Beamont, awarded the D.S.O and bar, O.B.E., D.F.C. and bar, American D.F.C.
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