Supermarine Rolls-Royce S6B Owners' Workshop Manual

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To anyone remotely interested in aviation and or engineering this aircraft was so advanced for it’s day in thinking outside the box and this book explains all with plans and period photos .

This is a superb book, even by the usual high standards of this series. The author is a real expert on the period and provides an excellent background chapter on the Snyder Cup competition and early entrants. The Supermarine floatplanes are then covered in detail, with a superb technical description of the S6 and S6B. These were highly stressed racing aircraft, pushing the technology of the day as far as it could go, and the danger (both physical and technical) becomes very apparent. The chapter from the pilots' point of view is positively hair raising. The text is also very well supported by drawings and period and modern photographs.

So good to see the Haynes books now including a set of line drawings for their subject. These, along with the superb reference material for which this publisher is now renowned, make the manuals a must for the scratch model maker.

A really comprehensive work, covering the history of the Schneider races and the people and aircraft involved, in addition to giving very extensive coverage of the S6B's. Technical drawings, factory photographs, press cuttings, walk around shots and a very well written and researched text mean that this is possibly the go-to work for anyone with an interest in the Schneider racers and the S6B's.