Fleet Air Arm Boys: True Tales from Royal Navy Aircrew, Maintainers and Handlers: Volume One: Air Defence Fighter Aircraft since 1945

The RAF’s continuing role in the projection of air power in the defense of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm (FAA), in part due to the ten—year gap between the retirement of the Harrier and the arrival of the F—35B and the Queen Elizabeth—class aircraft carriers.

Flying high performance aircraft off a carrier demands not only a high level of skill, but...