By 1918 British factories were supplying the future RAF with over two thousand aircraft every month, including the deadly SE5a, flown by battle-hardened pilots who embraced the new technology and pioneered a more combative approach to aerial warfare. Most influential were the working class air aces James McCudden and 'Mick' Mannock. Air supremacy in the skies above the Western Front is seen as dependent on aeronautical innovation, industrial mobilisation, and front-line squadrons' ruthless employment of fresh tactics rooted in harsh experience and unforgiving analysis.
In Flanders Fields Museum, Gateways to the First World War and the University of Kent present a series of eight seminars, free and open to all.
Seminars will take place in Canterbury during the autumn term and in Ypres during the spring term.
Venue: The reading room of the In Flanders Fields Museum, Sint-Maartensplein 3, Ieper.
