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AIR LAW Publishing Group USA, 400 The KC-135 of a 32-year career flying the Illustrated. £20. ISBN 978-1- First Avenue North, Suite 400, Stratotanker: More Than , McDonnell 910690-33-8. Airport Competition Minneapolis, MN 55401, USA. a Tanker. R S Hopkins. Douglas F-4 Phantom, Incorporating the first- Regulation in Europe. 2016. 208pp. Illustrated. £23. Crecy Publishing, 1a Ringway SEPECAT Jaguar and Panavia hand recollections of many S Varsamos. Kluwer Law ISBN 978-0-7603-5027-0. Trading Estate, Shawdowmoss Tornado among other aircraft pilots and navigators involved, International, PO Box 316, Road, Manchester M22 5LH, types including the English a revealing insight into the 2400 AH Alphen aan den Rijn, UK. 2017. 384pp. Illustrated. Electric Lightning, Hawker service operations around The . 2016. xv + £27.95. ISBN 978-1-91080- Siddeley Harrier, the world of the English 257pp. $200. 901-3. F-14 Tomcat and General Electric (and its USAF Dynamics F-16 in these B-57/B-57A variants) and The Law of Unmanned PILOTING informal memoirs which also its operations in the 1956 Aircraft Systems: an include recollections from Air , RAF Germany and Introduction to the Current How to Land a Plane. Marshal J R Walker about the 1957 Christmas Island and Future Regulation M Vanhoenacker. Quercus, flying the Jaguar. nuclear under National, Regional Carmelite House, 50 Victoria weapon trials, concluding with and International Law. Embankment, London EC4Y the aircraft’s final RAF flight Edited by B I Scott. Kluwer 0DZ, UK. 2017. 64pp. in its PR9 variant with 39 Law International, PO Box 316, Illustrated. £9.99. ISBN 978- Squadron in July 2006. 2400 AH Alphen aan den Rijn, 1-78648-715-5. The Netherlands. 2016. xlv + A basic illustrated guide The JG 26 War Diary: 389pp. $166. The Projects of Skunk to the processes involved Volume One 1939-1942; Works: 75 Years of (including the instruments, Volume Two 1943-1945. FLIGHT TESTING Lockheed Martin’s controls and flight operations) D Caldwell. Grub Street, Advanced Development in landing an aircraft. London, UK. 1996-1998. German Secret Flight Programs. S Pace. Voyageur 346pp; 576pp. Illustrated. Test Centres to 1945: Press, Quarto Publishing PROPULSION ISBN 1-898697-52-3; Johannisthal, Lipetsk, Group USA, 400 First Avenue 1-898697-86-8. Rechlin, Travemunde, North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, Aircraft Propulsion and A very detailed day- Tarnewitz, Peenemunde- MN 55401, USA. 2016. Gas Turbine Engines – by-day account of the West. H Beauvais et al. 256pp. Illustrated. $40. ISBN Second edition. A F El-Sayed. leading fighter Midland Publishing, Hinckley. 978-0-7603-5032-4. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis wing 2002. 248pp. Illustrated. ISBN Group, 6000 Broken Sound which operated throughout 1-85780-127-X. Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca WW2, including the German Beginning with the secret Raton, FL, 33487-2742, USA. V Force Boys: All New perspective of the Battle of flight testing undertaken in 2017. Distributed by Taylor & Reminiscences by Air and Britain, concluding appendices co-operation with the Red Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Ground Crews Operating recording the unit’s organisation, Army at Lipetsk in Russia, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 the Valiant, Vulcan and commanders, bases, victory various authors contribute 4RN, UK. 1447pp. Illustrated. Victor in the and claims and casualties. to this very detailed history £130. [20% discount available Beyond. T Blackman and A (including listings of research/ to RAeS members via www. Wright. Grub Street, 4 Rainham SPACE test units, personnel, aircraft/ crcpress.com using AKQ07 Close, London SW11 6SS, UK. engines tested and their promotion code]. ISBN 978-1- 2017. 230pp. Illustrated. £20. Recent Successful markings) of the establishment 4665-9516-3. ISBN 978-1-910690-38-3. Satellite Systems: Visions and operations of official Various pilots, navigators of the Future. Edited by D K flight test centres in Germany SERVICE AVIATION and ground crew reflect on Sachdev. American Institute of through to the end of WW2. their experiences of operating Aeronautics and Astronautics, Russian Aviation Colours the Victor, Reston, VA. 2017. Distributed Luftwaffe Test Pilot: Flying Pioneers, Showmen and 1909-1922 Vol 3 Red Stars. Vulcan and , the by Transatlantic Publishers Captured Allied Aircraft of the RFC: Early Aviation in M Khairulin. Published by hydrogen tests over the Group, 97 Greenham Road, World War 2. H-W Lerche. Ireland 1909-1914. Stratus, , on behalf of area of Christmas Island, the London N10 1LN, UK. 501pp. Jane’s Publishing Company G Warner. Colourpoint Books, Mushroom Model Publications, Victor’s role as a tanker aircraft Illustrated. £87. [20% discount Limited, London. 1980. 190pp. Colourpoint Creative Ltd, 3 Gloucester Close, and the RAF’s available to RAeS members Illustrated. ISBN 0-7106- Colourpoint House, Jubilee Petersfield, Hants GU32 3AX, programmes are among the on request; E mark.chaloner@ 0031-3. Business Park, 21 Jubilee UK (www.mmpbooks.biz). subjects discussed. tpgltd.co.uk T +44 (0)20 8815 The author’s recollections Road, Newtownards BT23 2017. 167pp. Illustrated. £45. 5994]. ISBN 978-162410- of his career as a German test 4YH, UK. 2016. 160pp. ISBN 978-83-65281-64-7. Phantom Boys Volume 2: 404-6. pilot based at Rechlin during Illustrated. £16. ISBN 978-1- Illustrated throughout More Thrilling Tales from WW2 and his experiences 78073-106-3. with numerous contemporary UK and US Operators of Space Race: the Untold of flying the Boeing B-17 Illustrated throughout photographs and colour the McDonnell Douglas Story of Two Rivals and Flying Fortress, Junkers by numerous contemporary diagrams, a detailed history of F-4. R Pike. Grub Street, their Struggle for the Ju290, Martin B-26 Marauder, photographs, an informative the wide variety of markings 4 Rainham Close, London Moon. D Cadbury. Fourth Consolidated B-24 Liberator, history of the pioneering years and of units of SW11 6SS, UK. 2017. 184pp. Estate, London, UK. 2005. Spitfire, Bell of powered flight in Ireland the Russian Socialist Federal Illustrated. £20. ISBN 978-1- 388pp. Illustrated. ISBN 0-00- P-39 Airacobra, Republic P-47 and the leading pilots involved Soviet Republic (RSFSR) air 910690-39-0. 720995-9. Thunderbolt, North American (including James Valentine, force which were used on a A compilation of informal The history of the US P-51 Mustang, Lavochkin Henri Salmet, Armstrong wide variety of aircraft types recollections from USAF and and Soviet ‘space race’ which La-5, Yakovlev Yak-3, Hawker Drexel, John Cyril Porte, H J (Nieuport, Bristol, Sopwith, RAF personnel of operating culminated in the Apollo Moon Tempest and Dornier Do335, D Astley, Cecil Grace, James SPAD among others). the F-4 Phantom (including landings, focusing on the included among the 125 Radley and Lilian Bland among during the Vietnam War and major contributions to space different aircraft types he flew, many others). Fast Jets and Other over the Falklands), illustrated exploration made by Wernher are vividly recalled in these Beasts: Personal Insights throughout with contemporary von Braun and Sergei Korolev. revealing memoirs. British Secret Projects 1: from the Cockpit of the photographs. Jet Fighters since 1950 Hunter, Phantom, Jaguar, For further information HISTORICAL – Second edition. T Buttler. Tornado and Many More. I Canberra Boys: contact the National Crecy Publishing, 1a Ringway Hall. Grub Street, 4 Rainham Fascinating Accounts Aerospace Library. Milestones of Flight: the Trading Estate, Shawdowmoss Close, London SW11 6SS, UK. from the Operators of an T +44 (0)1252 701038 Epic of Aviation with the Road, Manchester M22 5LH, 2017. 208pp. Illustrated. £20. English Electric Classic. or 701060 National Air and Space UK. 2017. 342pp. Illustrated. ISBN 978-1-910690-42-0. A Brookes. Grub Street, 4 Museum. F R van der Linden £27.95. ISBN 978-1-91080- A former RAF fighter Rainham Close, London E hublibrary@aerosoci- et al. Zenith Press, Quarto 905-1. pilot recalls his experiences SW11 6SS, UK. 2017. 211pp. ety.com

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