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PROFILE # 237

BRISTOL F.2B FIGHTERS: R.A.F. 1918 – 32

 (CHAZ BOWYER)

This series was started back in the early 1960s and takes the form of a small format, soft cover booklet with 12 or more pages.  Illustrations are generally black & white photographs (though some later ones had some colour) with two or more pages of colour profiles.  In addition, summaries of aircraft specification, performance and armament are detailed.  Many of these booklets can still be a useful reference tool and are highly sought-after little books are an invaluable resource for aviation historians, modellers and collectors alike.

This issue is of the new series which commences with issue No. 205 to continue the pattern of the complete history of the aircraft of the world established with the early Aircraft Profiles (red colour) numbered 1 to 204.

This new series is different in each part contains around 24 pages, approximately 6/7000 words of text, 40 plus photographs, and a detailed, full-colour, general arrangement drawing of a specific aeroplane.

Contents:

            Prologue

          U.K. and Germany

          India

          A page of Profile Camouflage Illustrations of 4 examples: F.2B C801 of 5 Squadron – India circa 1925, J6758 of 20 Squadron – India circa 1924, Mk. I F4611 of 48 Squadron – Quetta; India 1919, FR4582 a rebuilt Mk. II F.2B of 208 Squadron – Ismailia; Egypt 1928.

          Middle / Near East

          Double-page of 5 Camouflage Illustrations of F.2B Mk. I F4403 of 5 Squadron RAF – Quetta; India 1920.

          A page of Profile Camouflage Illustrations of 4 examples: F4484 of A Flight; 2 Squadron – Manston 1925, J6689; a dual cockpit used by Cadet College Cranwell – 1927 / 8, J8257; a Mk. IV dual-cockpit trainer of Oxford University Air Squadron – 1932, FR4744 of 6 Squadron – Ismailia; Egypt 1931.

          Epilogue

          RAF Service Use – Post-Armistice 1918

Specification

Pages:  24  (25cm x 18.5cm)

Condition: Good, staples very lightly rusted but sound with pages well secured.  Negligible rubbing to the edges and minimal bumps and knocks to the edges and corners.  Some light marking commensurate with the book's age on cover pages (see photograph).  Internally clean and bright.  

Publication:  1972