WWI Aviation Books by Charles E. MacKay

3 titles · published 2020 to 2023

Original research into German and British air power 1914 to 1918, the Fokker D.VII, RFC and RNAS procurement and Ministry of Munitions records.

Start here: German Aircraft in the Great War

Volume 1 of 2 in German Aircraft in the Great War.

German Aircraft in the Great War
German Aircraft in the Great War by Charles E. MacKay is a 1914-1918 history of Fokker D.VII fighters, the Richthofen autopsy and Riesenflugzeuge bombers.
256 pages · 7 March 2023 · Volume 1 of 2, German Aircraft in the Great War
£12.89
Flying for Kaiser Wilhelm 1914-1918: Aces Aeroplanes & Defeat
Flying for Kaiser Wilhelm 1914-1918 by Charles E. MacKay is a history of German WWI fighter aces, Pour le Merite pilots and Spandau armament.
180 pages · 12 July 2023 · Volume 2 of 2, German Aircraft in the Great War
£12.89
British Aircraft of the Great War: Fighters Bombers Seaplanes Trainers Flying Boats
British Aircraft of the Great War by Charles E. MacKay is a history of RFC, RNAS and RAF procurement of fighters, bombers, seaplanes and flying boats.
136 pages · 8 September 2020
£12.93

About this collection

These three volumes examine German and British military and naval aviation from 1914 to 1918 through wartime records, Ministry of Munitions files, and the post-war inspection reports of the Inter-Allied Aeronautical Commission of Control. German Aircraft in the Great War 1914-1918 (ISBN 9781838056742) covers Johannisthal airfield, Anthony Fokker's synchronisation gear, Oswald Boelcke and the Jagdstaffeln, the Albatros fighters, the Fokker D.VII, the Marine-Fliegerabteilung Naval Air Arm, the Riesenflugzeuge giant bombers, and the medical evidence surrounding the death of Manfred von Richthofen. Its companion second volume, Flying for Kaiser Wilhelm 1914-1918: Aces Aeroplanes & Defeat (ISBN 9781838056759), follows the Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) pilots, including Ernst Udet and Hermann Göring, the pilot and observer training schools, observation balloons, the Coblenz handover of aircraft to the Allies, and the collapse of November 1918. British Aircraft of the Great War (ISBN 9781838056704) documents the fighters, bombers, seaplanes, trainers, and flying boats of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service.