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NATIONAL AEROSPACE LIBRARY Air Safety Group Archives

On 18 June the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough was formally presented with the archival papers (correspondence, committee minutes and other papers) of the Air Safety Group (www.airsafetygroup.org). Founded in 1964 — following the controversy concerning the relative safeties of the two jet turbine fuels Jet A and Jet B — the Air Safety Group is an independent body composed largely of aviation professionals which has, since its inception, lobbied continuously to achieve improvements in The RAeS Chief Librarian, air safety and air accident prevention, addressing Brian Riddle (third from right), aspects of air safety concerns receiving insuffi cient with members of the Air attention from the aviation industry and its use by the then Trans Canada of JP-4 fuel, Safety Group. regulatory authorities. widely believed to be less safe than kerosene. The Over the Air Safety Group’s almost 50-year resultant exchange of correspondence is held within history, almost every issue affecting the safety this binder. of civil air transport has been considered and On 1 February 1961 Lord Brabazon raised many acted upon, actions taking the form of the issue in the House of Lords resulting in a correspondence with the authorities (Department Government Working Party being formed to of Transport, CAA, EASA, FAA and ICAO), meetings investigate into the relative safeties of the two fuels. with the CAA, questions in Parliament, letters to the The Ministry of Aviation Working Party on Aviation FOUNDED aviation and daily press and correspondence with Kerosene and Wide-Cut Gasoline reported in March IN 1964 — numerous associations and individuals. 1962 (CAP 177) in favour of kerosene as the safer In 2008 a Memorandum of Understanding fuel. FOLLOWING THE (MoU) was signed between the Air Safety Group The archive includes a wide selection of CONTROVERSY and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for contemporary articles and opinions expressed CONCERNING Transport Safety (PACTS). Under this MoU, the by airlines, professional associations, specialist Group provides, as required, aviation safety advice to committees, aviation journals, the daily press, THE RELATIVE the Council, joint Air Safety Group/PACTS meetings aviation authorities, Government departments, SAFETIES OF THE being held two or three times a year. members of Parliament and private individuals TWO JET TURBINE Also included in the archives is a folder of relating to the fuel controversy. correspondence from Lord Brabazon and others For any enquiries regarding this material, please FUELS JET A — which predates the formation of the Air Safety contact the librarians at Farnborough (+44 (0)1252 AND JET B — Group — which deals exclusively with the relative 701038/701060; E [email protected]) THE AIR SAFETY safety of fuels used in turbine-powered during the period 1952 to 1963. As this was what The Air Safety Group welcomes enquiries from GROUP IS AN led eventually to the formation of the Group, it is aviation professionals seeking prospective INDEPENDENT felt justifi ed in providing some detail. The issue membership of the Group, particularly from was publicly pursued mainly by John Rickard those with a background in Air Traffi c Control or BODY AMRAeS, a former employee, and Lord Air Traffi c Management. If you are interested in COMPOSED Brabazon, Chairman of the Air Registration Board working together with other like-minded individuals LARGELY OF (though acting in a private capacity). Resulting from in improving air safety, please contact the Air a business visit to Canada and the US in 1959, Safety Group via its website or alternatively email AVIATION Rickard was in a favourable position to question the [email protected] PROFESSIONALS

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MARCH 2010 NN The Society’s Library — Air transport history

he Society’s Library holds an extensive col- Empire Airways Patco Airlines Tlection of material (books, journal articles, Polnische Luftverkehrs AG (‘Aerolot’) timetable for its papers, photographs etc.) recording the inter- Manila — Baguio/Manila national development of air transport and air- and Nyasaland Airways Ltd (RANA) — Paracale line operations around the world, past and routes, 1936. present, including a particularly fine collection Limited of early timetables, route maps and Societa Aerea Mediterranea posters from the 1920s-1940s. Among the air- Trans-Europa-Union lines represented are as follows: Union Airways Airways Ltd Expresso Italiana (AEI) In particular, the Society’s Library does hold a Aero Lloyd wealth of material relating to the aircraft and Aeropostale operations of . The material Air includes bound sets of its journals Imperial Airways Weekly News Bulletin 1936 No 27 — Allied Airways (Gandar Dower) Ltd 1939 No 166 and Imperial Airways Gazette Avio Linee Italiane S.A. 1929 Vol 1 No 10 — 1939 Vol 11, annual British Continental Airways Ltd reports, timetables, route maps, books and National Aviation Corporation other papers. Compagnie Generale Transsaharienne In addition many references to the develop- Compagnie Internationale de Navigation ment of air transport (airlines, routes and the Aerienne (CIDNA) aircraft they operated) can be found recorded From an original Dansk Lufttransport A/S/Danske in detail in the contemporary aviation journals poster (c.1934) in Luftfartselskab A/S of the time such as Flight, Aviation, The the Society’s Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrs-Gesellschaft Aeroplane, Air, Airways, Air Transport and Library depicting a (‘Deruluft’) Engineering and the Commonwealth HP42E G-AAAXC Air Transport Council Newsletter, the world- Deutsche Heracles Deutsche -Reederei GMBH wide coverage of its journal holdings being a operated by Europa-Union key strength of the Society’s Library. As gather- Imperial Eurasia Aviation Corporation ing such material has been a policy of the Airways. Farman Air Lines/Lignes Aeriennes Farman Society’s Library since its formation, it has Pioneers in the German African Lines (Deutsche Ost-Afrika- resulted in probably a unique collection of jour- development of Line) nals recording aviation and aeronautical devel- international , Airways Ltd opments across the world, the Library holding the extensive bound runs of many important early Air Services Ltd and flying Air Transport Co Ltd pre-1939 journal titles published in boats of -Flugzeugen Czechoslovakia, France, , Holland, Imperial Airways Ltd , Norway, , , Romania, Sweden, Airways dur- Koninklijke Luchtvaart Mattschappij (KLM) Switzerland and many other European and ing the 1920s Air Lines (Royal Dutch Air Lines) non-European countries worldwide. and 1930s KNILM (Royal Indies’ Airways) linked the far corners of Misr Airwork All enquiries regarding this material should be the British addressed to: Brian Riddle, Librarian, Royal Pan American Airways Systems Empire dur- Pan American-Grace Airways Inc (Panagra) Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, ing the Patco Airlines (Philipine Aerial Taxi W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 7670 ‘golden age’ Company) 4362. e-mail: [email protected]. of air travel.

July/August 2005 3 Library Additions Society News

The National Aerospace Library (BEA) Reports

historically important issued between 1953-1976 (nine Acollection of internal research vols). reports relating to the post-WW2 This extensive collection of development and the internal reports records handling establishment of civil trials, performance, engine operations has been presented to installations, noise trials and the National Aerospace Library by certification, analysis, weight Mr R H Whitby, CEng, FRAeS. and other technical assessments Originally established in 1946 of a wide variety of transport by N E Rowe as the Helicopter aircraft and their variants including Experimental Unit of the Research a number of evaluations of unbuilt and Long Term Development project designs. The Armstrong Department (later Research and Whitworth Argosy/AW670, Special Development Department) 748/761/771, BAC 1-11, Beagle of the newly formed airline British 221, Beechcraft 99A, European Airways (BEA) - of which 727, Breguet 941, Mr Whitby was one of the original 192/200/205, Convair ’Golden members - the RLD/RSD Reports Arrow’ 80/Model 440/880, de and Helicopter Notes issued Havilland Comet between 1946-1963 (six vols) 3/4/4B/DH121/DH123, de record BEA’s pioneering work in Havilland Canada DHC Twin the development of civil helicopter Otter/Caribou, , operations. Handley Page HPR8/HP137 The collection of internal Jetstream, reports records numerous handling Trident/136, Hunting P107, trials, evaluations of autopilot and Lockheed L-1011, Scottish other navigational equipment, Aviation Twin Pioneer, Short night flying, gust research, the PD65, Sikorsky S-55/S-61/S-63, development of air mail operations Sud-Aviation SE Caravelle, Tupolev and other technical assessments Tu-114/Tu-154, Vertol 107, of various rotorcraft and other /Vanguard/ aircraft types including Agusta Bell V800/V900, Westland 92 through 47, Bristol 171/173/192, de to early studies are among Havilland DH106, Fairey the aircraft types discussed. The Rotodyne, Sikorsky S-51, accident histories of the DH89 Westland-Sikorsky Dragon Rapide, Viscount and S55/Westminster and their Douglas DC-3 are also compared variants. N E Rowe, R H Whitby, G (Report P270). S Hislop, R N Liptrot, R A C Brie For any enquiries regarding this and P A Hearne are among the material, please contact the notable authors of these reports. librarians at Farnborough (T +44 In 1953 - in addition to his (0)1252 701038/701060; E research and development work on [email protected]) - Mr Whitby was The assistance of Kathryn J appointed to manage the Cooper, FIH (Assistant Club Performance and Analysis section Secretary - Club) of BEA (which had been originally and Peter Elliott (Senior Keeper - founded in 1946 by K G Wilkinson) Department of Research & and the Library has also been Information Services - Royal Air presented with the British Force Museum, Hendon) in European Airways - Engineering arranging to collect this material Branch Project and Development on the Library’s behalf is gratefully Top: Westland Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA leaving after loading mail at Branch Technical Notes P1 - P690 acknowledged. Mudford. Middle: Armstrong Whitworth AW650 Argosy Series 222 of BEA. Bottom: de Havilland/Hawker Siddeley DH/HS121 Trident 1C, with a , both in BEA markings. RAeS (NAL) photos.

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The National Aerospace Library E H J Pallett Civil Aviation Library

n 29 March the National Includes a fleet list arranged by Imperial Airways Limited and Airport of the Nine Dragons Kai OAerospace Library at aircraft type of all the aircraft Ltd through to its Tak Kowloon: a Story of Hong Kong Farnborough accepted delivery of which had been operated by KLM last year of operation 1973/74 and Aviation. C C Eather. ChingChic a large collection of aviation books up to that time. its eventual amalgamation with Publishers, Surfers Paradise, which had been bequeathed to the British European Airways to form . 1996. 254pp. Library from the estate of the late The Rise and Fall of . British Airways. Illustrated. Edwin Henry John Pallett, IEng, H Banks. Faber and Faber Limited, Concluding with appendices AMRAeS. The author of a number London. 1982. 155pp. ’s Airport. D Cameron. recording pioneer flights in the of standard textbooks on aircraft Chronicles the rise and demise of Holmes McDougall Ltd, . Far East and aircraft on the Hong instruments and electrical and its Skytrain 1990. 128pp. Illustrated. Kong register, this is a detailed systems, Mr Pallett’s library charter service. A well-illustrated history of development revealed that he held a deep aircraft operations at Renfrew and at Kai Tak airport and the role interest in the historical Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Abbotsinch, including a chronology played by Far East Aviation Co development of airlines and Destruction of Eastern Airlines. A of early . Ltd, Far East Flying Training airliners and his collection, as Bernstein. Simon and Schuster, School Ltd, Cathay Pacific detailed below, has helped fill a New York. 1990. 256pp. Airport in Old Airways Ltd and the Swire Group number of gaps in the National Photographs. D G Collyer. Alan among others. Aerospace Library’s extensive : a History. P J Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud. holdings relating to the Birtles. Regional 1992. 160pp. Illustrated. Three Decades a Pilot: the Third development of air transport Aircraft Ltd, Hatfield. 1993. Over 230 captioned photographs Generation. W Emm. Spellmount services around the world: 64pp. Illustrated. illustrate this pictorial history of Ltd, Tunbridge Wells. 1990. A well-illustrated history of the airfield. 293pp. Illustrated. Modern Civil Aircraft 6 — Boeing aircraft design and production at Based on the personal log books 757/767/777 (P Birtles); 9 — Hatfield from the early years of de British Midland Airways. B G of a former pilot, this part-fictional (A J Wright); 11 — Havilland through to the assembly Cramp. Airline Publications & biography recalls his flying career BAe 146 (M J Hardy). Ian Allan of the BAe 146. Sales Ltd, Hounslow. 1979. with the Ltd, Shepperton. 1991-1992. 208pp. Illustrated. (ATA), ‘ATFERO’ (the Atlantic Ferry 112pp; 80pp; 96pp. Illustrated. The History of BOAC 1939-1974. A detailed year-by-year account of Organization) and BOAC. W Bray. The Wessex Press, the early history of the British Pictorial History of KLM Royal Camberley. c.1983. 486pp. independent airline and its original Skygods: the Fall of . R Dutch Airlines. R Allen. Ian Allan A detailed history of British formative companies Gandt. William Morrow and Ltd, London. 1978. 192pp. Overseas Airways Corporation from Wolverhampton Aviation and Company, Inc, New York. 1995. Illustrated. its formative parent companies Derby Aviation. 326pp. Illustrated.

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Left: , The Story of the Grumman Years of Aviation Insurance. I of RAF Ferry Command (acting as Balmoral G-AHEM, , of BOAC. Gulfstreams. F J Knight. The Ormes. Michael Rainbird Senior Air Officer to ACM Sir Lockheed Martin photo. Henfield Press. 1979. 183pp. Publishing Limited, London. 1988. Frederick Bowhill) through to his Illustrated. 160pp. Illustrated. postwar career with Silver City Air : the Inside Story of Includes individual aircraft Published to commemorate the Ferries. British Airways’ Secret War histories. Golden Jubilee of Hill Aviation against ’s Virgin Syndicate 800. Lloyds 1938- Crash Course: the World of Air Atlantic. M Gregory. Little, Brown A History of the . 1988, this informative history Safety. M Prince. Grafton Books, and Company (UK) Limited, D Littlefield. Halsgrove Press, describes the origins of aviation London. 1990. 216pp. Illustrated. London. 1994. 408pp. Illustrated. Tiverton. 1992. 159pp. insurance, the Air Registration Illustrated. Board (ARB) and the International World Airline Colours of It was to fly with friends!: the Includes individual aircraft Union of Aviation Insurers (IUAI). Yesteryear. R-D Halliday. The Story of Air . G M Simons. histories of the Series Aviation Data Centre Ltd, Feltham. GMS Enterprises, Peterborough. 100/250/300/305/310/320 British Civil Aviation: a Chronology 1992. 152pp. Illustrated. 1999. 208pp. Illustrated. variants. of ‘Firsts’. E H J Pallett. Illustrated by colour photographs Unpublished. 133pp. throughout of airline liveries, this The Ministry of Transport and Civil Western Airways: the West volume provides concise histories Aviation: History, Organisation and Sixty Years of Bradford Country Airline. G M Simons. of 100 airlines which operated Functions. Ministry of Transport Airport. A Phillips. The Hutton Redcliffe Press Ltd, Bristol. 1998. during the 1960s and 1970s. and Civil Aviation, London. 1956. Press Ltd., Beverley. 1994. 40pp. Illustrated. A concise history of Norman Edgar Age of Heroes: Incredible 100pp. 130pp. Illustrated. (Western Airways) Ltd — which Adventures of a Pan Am Pilot and Includes informative summary of A pictorial history of aviation at was originally inaugurated on 7 his Greatest Triumph, Unravelling the early development of civil Yeadon. September 1933 — and was to be the Mystery of Amelia Earhart. H aviation law and regulations in taken over by the Straight Keyzer-Andre and H Steirman. Britain. Lufthansa : the Corporation Ltd — concluding with House, Mamaroneck, NY. Story of the Old “Aunty Ju”. P the airline’s fleet list. 1993. 302pp. Illustrated. Aviation in Doncaster 1909- Pletschacher. Aviatic Verlag, The author recalls his long career 1992. G Oakes. Published by the Planegg. 1990. 151pp. with Pan Am, including his author, Doncaster. 1995. 96pp. Illustrated. 70 Years of Flying 1915-1995: researches into Amelia Earhart’s Illustrated. the Story of Britain’s Oldest Flying last flight during which she A detailed history of Doncaster Ferryman: from Ferry Command to Club in Continuous Existence. J disappeared over the Pacific and its airport and its contribution Silver City. G Powell. Airlife Sleight. Aero Ocean in 1937. to aviation history from Britain’s Publishing Limited, Shrewsbury. Club Ltd, Woolsington. 1995. first air show held in 1909 1982. 227pp. Illustrated. 44pp. Illustrated. Classic Civil Aircraft: 5 — Hawker through to the closure of the The author recalls his aviation A pictorial history of Newcastle Siddeley Trident. M Kingsley- airfield in 1992. career from his time he served as Aero Club based at Woolsington Jones. Ian Allan Ltd, Shepperton. controller of ‘ATFERO’ (the Atlantic and of some of its leading 1993. 144pp. Illustrated. Leading Edge: the Pioneering Ferry Organization), his command personalities over the years.

The International Air Rally organised by the Flying Club at , Hythe, Kent. 29 August 1936. RAeS (NAL) photo.

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KLM FVIIa, H-NADK, became G-EBTS, The Spider. RAeS (NAL) photo.

History of Cambrian Airways: the The author recalls his long aviation Behind the Cockpit Door: the Empire Airways Ltd, Sabena Belgian Welsh airline from 1935-1976. T career detailing in particular his Illustrated Memoirs of an Airline World Airlines, , Trans G Staddon. Airline Publications & leadership of Pilot. A Whitlock. Merlin Books, Canada Air Lines (TCA), Trans World Sales Ltd, Hounslow. 1979. Airways, its merger with British Braunton. 1991. 318pp. Airlines (TWA) and United Air Lines. 111pp. Illustrated. United Airways and its later rivalry Illustrated. Originally formed as Cambrian Air with British Airways. In these informal memoirs, Unfriendly Skies: Revelations of a Services Ltd operating from illustrated by a number of the Deregulated Airline Pilot. Captain , a concise history of the The Air Registration Board 1937- author’s detailed cartoons, the ‘X’ and R Dodson. Sphere Books company which was to become the 1972: Some Personal author recalls his life in aviation Limited, London. 1990. 236pp. national airline for through Recollections. Edited by W Tye. and in particular his flying career to its eventual amalgamation Civil Aviation Authority, with BKS Aerocharter Limited For any enquiries regarding this within British Airways. Chelthenham. 1987. 136pp. flying Dakotas, Vikings, Bristol material, please contact the The history of the ARB through to Freighters/Britannias, librarians at Farnborough (T +44 Lockheed Constellation: Design, the amalgamation of the Ambassadors and eventually the (0)1252 701038/701060; E Development and Service History Airworthiness Division into the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar with [email protected]). of all Civil and Military Safety Services Group of the CAA British Airways. Constellations, Super is recalled through this information A large number of books from Mr Constellations and Starliners. C K compilation of articles by various From Jenny to Jet: Pictorial Pallett’s Library already held will be Stringfellow and P M Bowers. authors formerly published in Histories of the World’s Great among the 100s of donated Motorbooks International, Osceola, ‘Above Board’. Airlines. D C Wigton. Bonanza secondhand/as new aviation books WI. 1992. 144pp. Illustrated. Shoreham Airport Sussex: the Books, New York. 1963. 187pp. available for purchase from the Numerous colour and black-and- Story of Britain’s Oldest Licensed Illustrated. National Aerospace Library’s stand white photographs illustrate this Airfield. T M A Webb and D L Bird. A compilation of informative at the Aerospace and Aviation Book detailed history of the Cirrus Associates (SW), Kington summary histories of the early Fair to be held on 21 November at Constellation family and its Magna. 1996. 91pp. Illustrated. development of , the Society’s headquarters at No.4 numerous variants, concluding A chronologically arranged year- , Braniff Hamilton Place, London W1. appendices civil and by-year history of one of the oldest International Airways, Canadian Proceeds from the sale of these military registrations worldwide. UK airfields. Pacific Airlines (CPA), Continental books will be used towards the Airlines, Eastern Airlines, El Al archival conservation of the original High Risk: the Politics of the Air. A The Tombstone Imperative: the Airline, KLM Royal Dutch Airline, James Goulding aviation artwork Thomson. Sidgwick & Jackson Truth about Air Safety. A Weir. Lufthansa German Airlines, held in the Library’s archives (see Limited, London. 1990. 590pp. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, London. Northwest Orient Airlines, Pan The Aerospace Professional, Illustrated. 1999. 338pp. Illustrated. American World Airways, Qantas February 2011, p 22).

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The National Aerospace Library Evolution of Airfields

he evolution of airfields during the interwar years played a Tmajor role in the national and international development of aviation. The National Aerospace Library at Farnborough holds the national collection of the old pre-WW2 Notices to Airmen in which details of numerous airfields (many of which no longer exist) and the flying restrictions around them are recorded, the collection being searchable via the website: http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/notams_1921-39_1945-49.pdf The Library also holds the national collection of the later Air Pilot/Aeronautical Information Circulars issued up to the year 2000 — and the national collection of topographical air maps/charts tracing the evolution of airspace around the UK — as described in The Aerospace Professional March 2010 (a pdf of which is included in the visual guide to some of the key collections held at the National Aerospace Library http://www.aerosociety.com/About-Us/nal/speccollections) Complementing these records, maps and plans of numerous early airfields during the interwar years were recorded in The Air Pilot: and (1929 — Second edition; 1937 — Third edition), the Automobile Association Register of Aircraft Landing Grounds (1933) (which was “ … designed to assist the development of flying in the by providing a list of temporary landing grounds at places where permanent aerodromes have not yet been established”) and Flying: the Light Aeroplane Weekly 1933-1934 Vol 1 – Vol 2 No 4. Based on these original sources held at the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough, a detailed listing of over 330 separate maps and plans of early airfields around Britain has been compiled on the behalf of the Library staff by retired volunteer Mike Stanberry, MRAeS. The National Aerospace Library’s archives have recently been of particular assistance to English Heritage in researching the background to the Aerofilms Collection archive (http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk) of over one million aerial photographs taken between 1919 and 2006, in support of which memories of the work of Aerofilms is actively sought Top: Plan of (Ruzyne) aerodrome from Shell Aviation News May 1937. http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/groups/history-aerofilms-ltd Top right: An article in Flying for 16 August 1933 on Leighterton aerodrome. As recorded by Hugh Scanlan in the company history Bottom: Praga E114 Air Baby over the then Prague Kbely airport. The river oxbow bottom left appearing at right in the chart above. RAeS (NAL) photos. Winged Shell: Oil Company Aviators 1927-87 (: Alison Hodge. 1987): “Pioneer airlines strove to take their place alongside established travel forms. Yet before continents could be crossed a network of staging posts had to be set up, and the concept of the air appreciated as a totally new activity calling for a new of support.” At the forefront of this international development of airfields was the Royal Dutch/Shell Group who regularly publicised their Progress Administration’s Bibliography of Aeronautics. Part news of their latest fuelling stops and Mike Stanberry has 37 — (1937). also compiled an equivalent listing of over 130 separate plans of overseas airfields as published in contemporary For any enquiries regarding this material, please contact issues of Shell Aviation News 1934-1939. the librarians at the National Aerospace Library, A large number of journal article references to the history Farnborough: and early development of airports and airfields nationally and T +44 (0)1252 701038/701060 internationally during this period are listed in the U.S. Works E [email protected]

February 2013 19 The Library H.G. Brackley (‘Brackles’) Photograph Collection

he Library’s photographic flight contest, the flight attempt Imperial Japanese Navy. In of India and Pakistan. His last Tarchives have been recently in a Handley Page V/1500 being 1924 Brackley became air role was as chief executive of supplemented through the abandoned following the superintendent of the newly- British South American kind donation via Michael successful first non-stop flight formed Imperial Airways Airways, succeeding Air Vice- Pidcock of some 100s of across the North Atlantic of 16 overseeing the development of Marshal D.E. Bennett but he photographs dating from hours and 27 minutes by Sir its operations in Europe and died tragically soon after his WW1 through to the early John Alcock (1892-1919) and Sir the Empire, personally appointment in a swimming 1940s, most of which (1886- undertaking to fly all the accident at Copacabana Beach. originated from the collection 1948) in a powered aircraft types it operated over A much-respected man, a of Air Commodore Herbert by two modified Rolls-Royce the years and pioneering many privately-published posthumous George Brackley, CBE, DSO, Eagle engines. of its distant air routes. His memoir included contributions DSC, AFRAeS (1894-1948). During 1920-1921 Brackley WW2 duties included serving from J.W. Booth, C.G. Grey, H.G. Brackley (‘Brackles’) served as chief pilot to the as Senior Air Staff Officer of No Major Woods Humphrey, Air after serving in France with the fledgling Handley Page 19 Group, Coastal Command, Chief Marshal Sir Frederick and Transport Ltd and then, in and post-war, in 1947, he Bowhill, Lord Knollys and Sir Royal Air Force during WW1, in 1921, he went to Japan to train organised the BOAC Frederick Handley Page among 1919 was one of the entrants for pilots as part of the British evacuation of nearly 42,000 others, his career being the transatlantic Aviation Mission to the people following the partition described in detail in Brackles:

Imperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta, G-AABTI, Atalanta. Imperial Airways Short S8 Calcutta. RAeS Library photo. RAeS Library photo.

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Handley Page V/1500, F7140, Atlantic, entered for the attempted 1919 Major Herbert G. Brackley supervising training of Imperial Japanese Naval Air . Service personnel, 1921. The Short-bbuilt Porte/Felixstowe F5 had been sent to Left: Imperial Airways Sea Eagle, G-EEBGR. Japan as part of the British Aviation Mission led by the Colonel The Master of RAeS Library photos. Sempill. The Society's Library holds Lord Sempill’s photographic record of the Mission preserved on glass lanterns slides. RAeS Library photo.

Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil operations of the airline. The All enquiries regarding the collection should be Aviation (Chatham: W. & J. material includes bound sets of addressed to: Brian Riddle, Librarian, Royal Aeronautical Mackay & Co Ltd. 1952) the company journals Imperial Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44 compiled by his widow, Frida. Airways Weekly News Bulletin (0)20 7670 4362. e-mail: [email protected]. The collection reflects all 1936 No 27–1939 No 166 and stages of Brackley’s distinguished Imperial Airways Gazette 1929 career and particularly his long Vol 1 No 10–1939 Vol 11, association with Imperial annual reports, timetables, Airways, and complements the route maps, posters, Library’s wealth of material photographs, books and other relating to the aircraft and papers.

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NATIONAL AEROSPACE LIBRARY

Delft University of Technology K G Wilkinson 19 October 1979. K Hagrup. 64pp. Illustrated. Papers on International Airlines and Public Interests — an Overview: the Brancker Air Transport Memorial Lecture delivered to The Chartered Institute of Transport 14 February 1977. Extract from The Chartered On 14 June 2013 the National Aerospace Library Institute of Transport Journal at Farnborough was presented by Roger Wilkinson Vol 37 (9) March 1977. R M with the papers of his father Dr Kenneth G Jackson. pp 251-255. Wilkinson CBE FRAeS (1917-1990), the Society’s Partnership for a Future President 1972-73. Beginning his career at the — Airline View: Presented at the Society of Automotive Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as Engineers Air Transportation Senior Scientifi c Offi cer in 1945, in 1946 he joined Meeting, Washington, DC, British European Airways and by 1971 he was the 10-12 May 1977. SAE Paper an Examination of the aviation industry and UK total 770577. P M Johnstone. 7pp. airline’s Chief Engineer and Deputy Chief Executive, Future Roles of Jet and aircraft exports 1946-1958. being appointed Chairman in 1972. In December Turbo-Prop Transport Some Engineering 1972 Dr Wilkinson was approached to become Aircraft. Fourteenth Brancker The Progress of European Aspects of Aviation in the Memorial Lecture presented Air Transport 1946-1961 World About Us: The First Managing Director of Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited to the Institute of Transport, — with Particular Refer- Sholto Douglas Memorial of which he was later appointed Vice-Chairman, 11 February 1957 (Advance ence to BEA: Seventeenth Lecture presented to The returning to British Airways in 1976 as Engineering proof copy). Lord Douglas of British Commonwealth Lecture Society of Licenced Aircraft Kirtleside. 57pp. Illustrated. presented to the Royal Aero- Engineers and Technologists, Director becoming Deputy Chairman in 1979. Includes concise chronol- nautical Society 16 November The Excelsior Hotel, Heathrow Dr Wilkinson’s papers — which also refl ect his ogy/timeline of aircraft gas 1961. Lord Douglas of Airport, 12 October 1971. turbine development and the Kirtleside. 54pp. Illustrated. P Masefi eld. 29pp. Illustrated. lifelong interest in gliding — include a number of key British European Airways Reviews the aviation lectures/reports recording the development of air (BEA) method of estimating Advanced Supersonic career of William Sholto Doug- transport and the challenges met over the decades aircraft . Transport: Presented at las, the evolution of Croydon the Society of Automotive and Heathrow airports/airline as detailed below: The Aircraft Industry — a Engineers Air Transportation engineering maintenance National Asset. The Opera- Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, costs (including engine tor’s Point of View: The Lord 6-9 May 1975. SAE Paper maintenance costs)/airliner The Future Fleet Develop- The Re-Organisation of Sempill Paper presented to 750617. R D Fitzsimmons and productivity and accelerate/ ment in Civil Aviation: BEA 1967-1971 — Case The Institute of Production R L Roensch. 7pp. Illustrated. stop distances for various Speech presented at the History. B M Brough. 40pp. Engineers, 16 April 1959 Discusses the McDonnell aircraft types over the decades. Symposium for the occasion (Advance proof copy). Lord Douglas Advanced Supersonic of the 6th lustrum of the Comparison of Alternate Douglas of Kirtleside. 49pp. Transport (AST) design. A View of Air Freight Aeronautical Study Association Aviation Fuels: Presented Illustrated. Developments in the Next ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, Delft, 18 at the Society of Automotive Includes tables recording AST Propulsion Compari- Decade: Presented at the September 1975. L J van Engineers International Air the growth of sales of the sons: Presented at the Soci- Society of Automotive Ameyden. 20pp. Illustrated. Transportation Meeting, Cincin- Vickers Viscount, the number ety of Automotive Engineers Engineers Eighth International nati, Ohio, 20-22 May 1980. of US/British transport aircraft Air Transportation Meeting, Forum for Air Cargo, Royal Where is UK Civil Aviation SAE Paper 800767. in service by aircraft type Hartford, Connecticut, 6-9 May Aeronautical Society, London, Going?: The Thirty-Second E N Cart. 8pp. (deliveries/orders), postwar 1975. SAE Paper 750631. R 10-12 May 1976. M L Olason Brancker Memorial Lecture aircraft types purchased by D Fitzsimmons and W T Rowe. and A D Reynolds. 14pp. delivered to The Chartered Jet Fuels — Now to the BOAC/BEA and BEA’s 9pp. Illustrated. Illustrated. Institute of Transport, 3 21st Century: Presented to projected fl eet size/future Discusses the Boeing February 1975. Extract from IATA Technical Committee, orders through to 1966, The World Airline — and 747F freighter. The Chartered Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 8 October postwar British civil transport Aerospace Manufacturing Transport Journal Vol 36 (10) 1980. E N Cart. 11pp. aircraft types (fi rst fl ight/de- — Industry: the Eighth Complexity and Progress May 1975. Lord Boyd- liveries/orders), the number of Dr Albert Plesman in Transport Aircraft: The Carpenter. pp 239-243. The Economics of Speed: people employed in the British Memorial Lecture delivered to sixth R K Pierson Memo- rial Lecture delivered to the Royal Aeronautical Society — Weybridge Branch. N E Rowe. c.1958. 27pp. Illustrated.

Two-Seat Sailplanes. B S Shenstone. 1952. 38pp. Typescript of paper that was to be published in Aircraft Engineering, January 1953 pp 2-10.

Why Airlines are Hard to Please: The Thirteenth British Commonwealth Lecture read to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 27 March 1958. Reprinted from Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society

48 AEROSPACE / FEBRUARY 2014 May 1958. B S Shenstone. pp their Effect on Air Transport’, 319-336. London, 15-16 May 1974. R H Whitby. 11pp. Illustrated. “What We Need is a Good Three-Cent Air Line”: A Airline Reprinted from the Saturday Operational and Evening Post, 20 October Regulatory Viewpoint: 1945. C R Smith. 8pp. Paper presented at the Royal Aeronautical Society Sympo- How Decisions are Made: sium ‘The Impact of Economics Major Considerations on the Design and Operation for Aircraft Programs. of Quieter Aircraft’, 23-24 AIAA 1982 Wright Brothers April 1975. R H Whitby. 8pp. Lectureship in Aeronautics Illustrated. delivered before International Council of the Aeronautical Developing Air Transport: Sciences/American Institute of Twenty-Fifth Cayley Memo- Aeronautics and Astronau- rial Lecture presented to the Technologists, 29 September The World Air Transporta- Opposite top: Dr Kenneth Royal Aeronautical Society — tics Aircraft Systems and 1973. K G Wilkinson. 15pp. tion System in the Year Wilkinson, RAeS President Technology Meeting, Seattle, Brough Branch 15 November 2000. K G Wilkinson. May 1972-1973, md Rolls-Royce 24 August 1982. J E Steiner. 1978. R H Whitby. 21pp. The Technology and Eco- 1980. 10pp. and former Chairman, BEA. 37pp. Illustrated. Illustrated. nomics of Air Transport in Opposite bottom: Boeing Discusses the evolution of its Next Phase: 64th Wilbur Trends in the Technology The Horten Tailless the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser and Orville Wright and Economics of Air 707-436, G-APFH, of BEA Aircraft /B-52/707/720/727/747/ . RAE Technical Note Memorial Lecture read to the Transport: Presented at the Airtours. 757/767, Lockheed Electra/ Aero 1703 — October 1945. Royal Aeronautical Society, 11 ‘Trends in Tourism Planning Above: McDonnell Douglas Orion, Convair 880, de Havil- K G Wilkinson. 72pp. December 1975. Reprinted and Development International DC-AST. Illustrated. land Trident, DC-9, , from Aerospace, February Conference’, 1-3 September Below: Vickers Viscount 802, and the JT3/ 1976 and The Aeronautical 1982. K G Wilkinson. 12pp. G-AORD, of BEA. J57/JT8D/ TF39/JT9D A Rationalised Fuel Journal, March 1976. K G RAeS (NAL). engines. Reserve Policy for Medium Wilkinson. pp 14-25; pp 102- Energy for Transport: Range Airline Operations: 127. Illustrated. Presented at The Information Jet Aviation Develop- Paper presented at the SAE Technology Society seminar ment — One Company’s National Aeronautic Meeting, A Solution to Airport ‘The Next Ten Years’ held at St Perspective: the Last Forty Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, 29 Noise: Paper presented at Paul-de-Vence, France, 19-24 Years and a Brief Look at September – 3 October 1953. ‘Airports — the Challeng- July 1982. K G Wilkinson. the Future. Presented at the K G Wilkinson and J Vivian. ing Future: Proceedings of 16pp. Illustrated. National Air and Space 22pp. Illustrated. the 5th World Airports Confer- Museum, Smithsonian Institu- ence on Technological and An Airline View of LH2 tion, October 1979. Progress in Sailplane Economic Change, Institution as a Fuel for Commercial J E Steiner. 28pp. Illustrated. Design: Reprinted from Jour- of Civil Engineers, London, 5-7 Aircraft: Extract from Inter- Discusses the design nal of the Royal Aeronautical May 1976. K G Wilkinson. pp national Journal of Hydrogen evolution of the Boeing Society, July 1954. K G Wilkin- 89-95. Illustrated. Energy Vol 8 No 10 1983. B-47/B-52/367-80/Dash son. pp 456-469. Illustrated. K G Wilkinson. pp 793-796. 80/KC-135/707/720/727/ The Role of Advancing Illustrated. 737/747/757/767 and the The Prospects for Aero Technology in the Future US SST (Supersonic Trans- Engines: Presented at The of Air Transport: Presented Australia’s Role in Inter- port) programme, including the Financial Times Aerospace to The Royal Society of Arts 2 national Aviation: the Ninth evolution of wing planforms Symposium, London, 16-17 March 1977. Extract from The Sir Ross and Keith Smith and aerofoil sections/wing fl ap May 1973. K G Wilkinson. Royal Society of Arts Journal Memorial Lecture delivered to systems. 12pp. Illustrated. Vol 125 No 5251 June 1977. the Royal Aeronautical Society, Discusses Rolls-Royce K G Wilkinson. pp 346-364. 10 December 1975. R J Yates. Australian Domestic Air- collaborative projects. Illustrated. 27pp. Illustrated. line Survey: The Sir Geoffrey Online de Havilland Memorial Lecture, RB211 — the First Eight- een Months Operating For enquiries regarding this material please contact 1979. J M Warner. 26pp To browse the Library Illustrated. Experience: Sholto Douglas the librarians at the National Aerospace Library: Memorial Lecture presented catalogue, visit www. T +44 (0)1252 701038/701060; European Air Transport to The Society of Licenced aerosociety.com/nal up to the Year 2000: The Aircraft Engineers and E [email protected] Lord Douglas of Kirtleside Lecture presented at the Third European Pioneers’ Day, Royal Aeronautical Society, London, 8 May 1978. R Watts. 43pp. Illustrated.

Technical Progress in Aviation: Extract from Regional Studies Vol 5 1971. R H Whitby. pp 117-120. Illustrated.

Precious Resources and Air Transport — an Airline View: Paper presented at the Royal Aeronautical Society Spring Convention ‘A Review of Precious Resources and

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