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NU The Aerospace Professional transport, time and aeronautical applications in the European and neighbouring regions and Library Additions is designed to keep members of the Royal Aeronautical is a first step towards Galileo, the planned sec- Society informed of the latest acquisitions of the Library at its headquarters: 4 ond generation navigation system. Hamilton Place, London. The contents include those books, symposia, pamphlets, Propulsion papers, videos and reports added to the Library in the two months prior to publica- Proceedings of the 3rd International tion. A retrospective pdf file of Library Additions, the bi-monthly supplement in Conference on Green Propellant for Space The Aerospace Professional, is included in the ‘Library’ section on the Society’s Propulsion and 9th International Hydrogen website: http://www.aerosociety.com. Peroxide Propulsion Conference: 17-20 Access to the Library is free to individual members, members of Engineering September 2006, Poitiers, France [Held on CD- Council institutions as well as employees of member companies of the Royal ROM]. Edited by C. Walker. ESA SP-635. Aeronautical Society’s Corporate Partners scheme, while others pay a small daily December 2006. Euros 50. ISBN 92-9092-946-4. access fee. The Library’s extensive catalogue of books, proceedings, technical reports (since 1980), photographs and slides is available to members via the ‘Library’ section of the Society’s website, http://www.aerosociety.com. For further information about the library or Library Additions please contact: Brian Riddle, RAeS Library, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 7670 4362. Fax: +44 (0)20 7670 4359. e-mail: [email protected]. Donation of early rotorcraft photographs

Below left: Alan Marsh in the Weir W2 near Hanworth, 1934. Left: Avro 671 Cierva C30A over Hampton Court (pilot: R.A.C. Brie) c.1934. Below: Juan de la Cierva in the cockpit of the prototype Cierva C30 autogiro, 1933.

responsibility for all prototype testing following Juan de la Cierva’s death in 1936. He became the company’s general manager after WW2, during which he took on the command of the Autogiro Radar Calibration Squadron, later known as No 529 (Rota) Squadron. he Library’s photographic archives in Alan Marsh, AFC, AFRAeS, died on 13 Tthe field of early rotorcraft history June 1950 during flight trials of the pro- have been recently supplemented totype Cierva Air Horse near Eastleigh. through the kind donation by Neil Marsh The Alan Marsh Medal and Award were of a quantity of photographs of various founded in 1955 by the Helicopter Cierva and Weir autogiros and other Association of Great Britain (of which early rotorcraft types with which his Alan Marsh had been its first chairman) father, Henry Alan Marsh (1901-1950), and are now administered by the Royal was closely associated. Alan Marsh joined Aeronautical Society following the amal- the Cierva Autogiro Company Ltd as an gamation of the Association with the assistant pilot in April 1932, assuming Society in 1960.

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The National Aerospace Library Pilcher Drawings/Ballooning Lithographs/Posters

eld in the archives of the also holds four volumes of Pilcher’s Clockwise from far left: ‘Sic itur ad National Aerospace Library at scrapbooks of cuttings he astra: Premiere experience H mechanique et aerostatique de M Farnborough is a collection of 13 assembled about contemporary Blanchard — 27 Fevrier 1784’. original manuscript engineering developments in aeronautics Poster for Charles Green’s 302nd drawings by Percy Sinclair Pilcher during 1891-1897 and also Ascent on 7 July 1845 from the (1866-1899). Influenced by the Pilcher’s personal signed copies of Royal Albert Saloon. Pilcher’s scale- diagram of his umbrella sail dated 15 glider designs of Otto Lilienthal the three-volume set of The March 1898. Pilcher boat with (1848-1896) Pilcher designed a Aeronautical Annual (Boston: W B umbrella sail. RAeS (NAL) photos. series of gliders which he Clarke & Co. 1895-1897) one of developed from 1893. the most significant English- Included in this collection — the language digests of aeronautical drawings being individually research published at the time. loan in 1920. It resided there until as the 'Nassau') balloon. The flight archivally encapsulated in a As described in The Aerospace 1993 when, due to building work lasting some 18 hours was the polyester laminate to allow Professional June 2009 (p 10) the connected with the new National longest that Man had researchers to handle and study Royal Aeronautical Society owns Museum of Scotland, it was moved accomplished up to that time. The the drawings without damaging the Pilcher’s Hawk Glider. Designed and to the National Museum of Flight, ‘passport’ is signed by Robert originals — are ten drawings which built by Percy Pilcher in 1895-96 it East Fortune; it is now currently in Hollond and J W May of the Dutch may be previously unrecorded of is the glider in which Pilcher died of storage at the National Museums Consul and stamped on its reverse the starboard sail for the ‘Gull’ his injuries following his crash on Collection Centre at Granton, by various continental officials, the glider, wheels, axle, an engine and, 30 September 1899. The oldest Edinburgh. balloon landing near the town of in particular, detailed drawings surviving aircraft in Britain, the A full-scale 24-feet span Weilburg, in the County of Nassau, relating to Pilcher’s design for the glider was first offered to the care reproduction of Pilcher’s earlier having crossed the English ‘Cyclone sail’ or ‘Umbrella sail’ of the Aeronautical Society of Great 1895 ‘Bat’ glider design is now Channel by night. intended for use on a small boat. Britain (the Royal Aeronautical displayed in the new Riverside A further 23 of the Library’s One of these drawings identified as Society's former name from 1866- Museum in Glasgow which houses extensive collection of 18th/19th ‘Sail O.N.18 — P S Pilcher March 1918) by Pilcher's engineering the collections of the former century French ballooning 15/98’ is described as following in company Wilson & Pilcher Ltd in a Museum of Transport. lithographs have also been Philip Jarrett’s book Another Icarus: letter dated 11 December 1899 In addition to the Pilcher archivally conserved sponsored by Percy Pilcher and the Quest for shortly after Pilcher's death. For a drawings, a further 23 of the 19th John Thirkettle, CEng, MRAeS. Flight (Smithsonian Institution number of years the glider, when century Charles Green ballooning The conservation of the Pilcher Press. 1987. p 81): not being kept in storage, was posters (described in The drawings and Charles Green “The last record of Pilcher’s displayed at various venues Aerospace Professional December ballooning posters was funded from interest in the device was a drawing (including Olympia, Alexandra 2010 [p 20]) have been conserved the proceeds of the National by him of an “umbrella” sail, dated Palace and the Science Museum) as well as the actual passport Aerospace Library’s stand at the March 15, 1898. This drawing was being first loaned to the Royal used by the aeronauts Charles Aviation Book Fair held on 8 March. in Ella’s [Pilcher’s sister] possession Scottish Museum in Edinburgh in Green , Robert Hollond and The next Aviation Book Fair is due to in the 1920s, but its present August 1909 to where the Royal Thomas Monck Mason during their be held at the Society’s whereabouts are unknown.” Aeronautical Society formally 7 November 1836 480 mile flight headquarters at No.4 Hamilton The National Aerospace Library deposited the glider on permanent in the 'Royal Vauxhall' (later known Place, London W1, on 21 November.

September 2011 13 SOCIETY NEWS ‘Adopt-a-Picture’ Appeal — The Roderic Hill drawings

s described in The AAerospace Professional June 2004 (p 5) and October 2005 (p 12) the Society’s Library has, among its collection of aeronautical works of art, a series of detailed pen-and- ink/pencil drawings by Roderic Hill (1894-1954) of various aircraft designs and imaginary future aviation scenes that were originally published in Flight 1919-1922. At the time the artist was in charge of the Experimental Flying Dept at RAE Farnborough, a long distinguished service career culminating in ACM Sir Roderic Maxwell Hill’s retirement in 1948 as Principal Air Aide-de- Camp to King George VI. Above left: ‘A Twin-EEngined Commercial Monoplane of the Near Future’ In 1912 Hill entered the Fine Original fine pencil drawing (28.5cm x 37cm) reproduced in Flight 21 April Arts Department of University 1921. Cost of conservation/restoration £180. Above right: ‘A Glimpse of the Future’ Original fine pencil drawing College, London, under (28.5cm x 22.5cm) reproduced in Flight 16 February 1922. Cost of Professor Henry Tonks — conservation/restoration £170. enlisting as Private soldier, 18th Right: ‘Ships that pass in the night’ Original fine pen-aand-iink drawing Royal Fusiliers, in October 1914 (29cm x 29cm) reproduced in Flight 17 March 1919. Cost of shortly after the outbreak of conservation/restoration £170. WW1, transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. His daughter, Prudence Hill, in her biography of her father, To are now in need of Others in the collection but not Know the Sky: the Life of Air conservation to preserve them illustrated here include: Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill for current and future (London: William Kimber. generations and if any ‘And it Came to Pass’ 1962), recorded: “...he learnt to individual member, company Original fine pen-and-ink ‘A Climbing Turn on the Bat etch at the age of forty-two or organisation would like to drawing (29cm x 23cm) Bantam’ when he was an air ‘adopt’ one of these works of reproduced in Flight 17 March Original fine pencil drawing commodore, and became a art, please contact: Brian 1919. Cost of conservation/ (27cm x 36cm) reproduced in rather fine exponent of the art; Riddle, Librarian, Royal restoration £170. Flight 7 April 1921. Cost of and he drew and painted for Aeronautical Society, No.4 conservation/restoration £180. pleasure to the end of his life.” Hamilton Place, London W1J ‘Flight in the Near Future’ As a result of the earlier 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 7670 Original fine pen-and-ink ‘Travelling of the Future: the articles, nine of the Roderic Hill 4362. e-mail: drawing (38cm x 27.5cm) White Moon Liner ‘Castor and pencil/pen-and-ink drawings in [email protected]. A reproduced in Flight 1 May Pollux’ awaiting the signal to the series have been sponsored plaque on the frame of the 1919. Cost of conservation/ alight’ and restored — including all picture, which would be restoration £180. Original fine pencil drawing four of the smaller series of restored via The London School (38cm x 28.5cm) reproduced in portrait drawings by Hill of of Picture and Frame ‘A Happy New Year’ Flight 19 May 1921. Cost of early aviation pioneers. They Restoration and then displayed Original fine pencil drawing conservation/restoration £180. are currently on display outside at the Society’s headquarters at (38cm x 27cm) reproduced in the Sopwith Room at Hamilton Hamilton Place, would record Flight 1 January 1920. Cost of ‘Bristol Scout’ Place alongside other the name of its sponsor. conservation/restoration £180. Original pencil drawing (38cm sponsored pictures. It is Whenever members of the x 24.5cm). Cost of conservation/ intended that others in the Society are in London they are ‘Aerial Policemen of the Near restoration £170. series will be displayed in the welcome to view the Future’ nearby Handley Page Room as permanent display at Hamilton Original fine pencil drawing ‘The Atlantic flight as it may be’ they are restored. Place of sponsored works of (27.5cm x 38cm) reproduced in Original fine pen-and-ink These drawings (listed from the Library’s art Flight 17 March 1921. Cost of drawing (22cm x 31cm). Cost of below with their original titles) collections. conservation/restoration £180. conservation/restoration £170.

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