From The Ground Up: The Training Of Raaf Technical Ground Staff 1948-1993
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Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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From the tarmac to the skies, the Royal Australian Air Force's operational excellence has always depended on the unsung heroes who keep its aircraft airborne — the technical ground staff. From the Ground Up: The Training of RAAF Technical Ground Staff 1948–1993 chronicles nearly five decades of institutional development, detailing how the RAAF built, refined, and sustained a world-class technical training apparatus in the post-war era. Set against the sweeping backdrop of Australia's evolving defence priorities — from the Cold War tensions of the late 1940s through to the professional forces of the early 1990s — this authoritative study presents the full arc of how the Air Force transformed raw recruits into skilled aviation technicians. C.D. Coulthard-Clark, a distinguished historian of Australian military affairs, brings meticulous scholarship and narrative clarity to this institutional history, drawing on archival sources to reconstruct the policies, personalities, and programs that shaped RAAF technical education. The work argues convincingly that the quality of ground staff training was not merely a logistical concern but a strategic imperative — one that determined Australia's air power capabilities during some of the most consequential decades of the twentieth century. Published under the auspices of the Air Power Studies Centre, this is an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the human and institutional foundations upon which Australian air power was truly built.
Author: C.D. Coulthard-Clark
Format: Paperback
Published: 1997, Air Power Studies Centre
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the tarmac to the skies, the Royal Australian Air Force's operational excellence has always depended on the unsung heroes who keep its aircraft airborne — the technical ground staff. From the Ground Up: The Training of RAAF Technical Ground Staff 1948–1993 chronicles nearly five decades of institutional development, detailing how the RAAF built, refined, and sustained a world-class technical training apparatus in the post-war era. Set against the sweeping backdrop of Australia's evolving defence priorities — from the Cold War tensions of the late 1940s through to the professional forces of the early 1990s — this authoritative study presents the full arc of how the Air Force transformed raw recruits into skilled aviation technicians. C.D. Coulthard-Clark, a distinguished historian of Australian military affairs, brings meticulous scholarship and narrative clarity to this institutional history, drawing on archival sources to reconstruct the policies, personalities, and programs that shaped RAAF technical education. The work argues convincingly that the quality of ground staff training was not merely a logistical concern but a strategic imperative — one that determined Australia's air power capabilities during some of the most consequential decades of the twentieth century. Published under the auspices of the Air Power Studies Centre, this is an indispensable volume for anyone seeking to understand the human and institutional foundations upon which Australian air power was truly built.