Some developments in aircraft design and application during the War (1919)
Weir of Eastwood, William Douglas Weir, Viscount, 1877-1959, North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders · [S.l. : s.n.] · leaf 59
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force · World War, 1914-1918 · Aeronautics, Military
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