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- Library Additions BOOKS BIOGRAPHY & on WW2 Royal Canadian Air to introduce the nuclear Bomber Command’s war became the Hawker Harrier AUTOBIOGRAPHY Force pilot, Roger Cole. intercontinental ballistic missile against Germany: planning and Sea Harrier. The book then into the USAF. These plans the RAF’s bombing goes on to explore the key part In his own words: The HISTORY were rapidly altered after the offensive in WWII and its that the aircraft and those who autobiography of Sir Cuban Missile Crisis. This book contribution to the allied operated it played during the George Dowty by G H Dowty, examines the development of victory by Noble Frankland, Falklands Conflict. The flying mathematicians the bomb, the plan to introduce Air World, 2020, 228pp. Hobnob Press, 2000, 160pp. of World War I by Tony the missile into USAF service Taken from an official Sir George Dowty, Royle, McGill-Queen’s SPACE and its swift demise, together history of the Command found founder of the Dowty Group, University Press, 2020, 269pp. with the detrimental effect that in National Archives ref AIR was a noted inventor and Space Architecture: the An exploration of the the process had on the USAF 41/57 and accompanied by a businessman, who pioneered New Frontier for Design work of the engineers and and the wider missile community. selection of other letters, this many components used in the Research, edited by N Leach, scientists of the UK who is the internal RAF analysis of aviation industry before, during, developed aeronautics in the 2014, 134pp. and after WW2. AIRLINE HISTORY the different phases of the air early years of the 20th century. war and what lessons could be An architect’s view of Sir George’s typescript Centred on those who worked learnt from those campaigns. cutting edge for outer space. autobiography, dictated shortly at the Royal Aircraft Factory/ Includes articles on NASA’s before his death, was later Royal Aircraft Establishment, Astrotecture project and the rediscovered by his son and it included the work of Poles in the Battle of design of space stations, Britain: A photographic published. It offers a unique Edward Busk, Geoffrey Taylor, Earth-based space centres and album of the Polish ‘few’ insight into the development David Keith Lucas, Frederick Moon bases. of Dowty’s companies and the Lindemann and William Farren, by P Sikora, Air World, 2020, part he played in the interwar together with lesser known 250pp. and post-war aircraft industry. A photographic record Wally Funk’s race for space: figures, such as David Pinsent The extraordinary story of a and Roderick Hill. of the Polish Air Force who flew alongside the RAF pilots female aviation pioneer by during WW2. Sue Nelson, Westbourne Press, Report on a visit to 2019, 258pp. Cardross to identify the The story of the youngest The territorial air force: first Pilcher flying sites by female pilot in NASA’s 1960s The RAF’s voluntary Eric Littledike, 2005, 20pp. Women in Space programme, squadrons, 1926-1957 by A report on an Royal Vikings: The Saga the cancellation of the Louise Wilkinson, Air World, investigation into the sites of Scandinavian Airlines programme and, approaching 2020, 319pp. where Percy Pilcher lived and and Predecessors by Günter her 80th birthday, Wally’s experimented with his gliders. Endres, European Airlines, A history of the three renewed quest to get into 261pp. territorial parts of the UK’s space. A very nicely illustrated reserve in the period: Auxiliary CargoLifter: A Air Force, the Special Reserve new dimension in history of the firms that AIRCRAFT HISTORIES came together to become and the Royal Air Force transportation by CargoLifter, Volunteer Reserve. It explores September 1998, 38pp. Scandinavian Airline System (SAS), including Det Danske the creation and reforms that Supermarine A marketing brochure for Luftfartselskab A/S (DDL), Det were undertaken during the Southampton: The flying the cargo-lifting airship. Norske Luftfartselskap A/S period, service during WW2, boat that made R J Safety is no accident: as well as an examination Mitchell by Jo Hillman and C From ‘V’ bombers to (DNL) and AB Aerotransport Hawker’s Secret Cold War of the men and women who Higgs, Air World, 2020, 229pp. Concorde, a flight test (ABA). The book also looks Airfield: Dunsfold, home joined the service. The book A nicely illustrated engineer’s story by John at the role played by those of the Hunter & Harrier by also includes an abridged list photographic record of the R W Smith, Air World, 2020, airlines during WW2. Christopher Budgen, Air World, of those who served in the 278pp. interwar flying boat. The 2020, 303pp. force, together with some volume also includes a A biography from a career Britannia Airways: The Taken over by Hawker in biographical details. production list. flight test engineer for both story of the United 1951 to test jet aircraft that Avro in the 1960s and early Kingdom’s largest holiday 1970s and the Civil Aviation were no longer able to be airline by G M Simons, Air Boeing B-17: The fifteen Authority certification process tested at Langley, Dunsfold World, 2020, 288pp. ton flying fortress by G M in the 1970s and early 1980s. became the test ground for A nicely illustrated history Simons and Harry Friedman, Includes accounts of working the Hunter, Harrier, Hawk, of the airline, which started as Air World, 2011, 256pp. on the Avro 748, Shackleton, Sea Fury and other aircraft, Euravia in 1961 and was later A history of the origins, Nimrod and Handley Page including the Canadair Sabre. to become the world’s largest development and variants of Victor tanker. He also worked This book explores the rise charter airline, taking Thomson the heavy bomber used by the on a wide range of passenger and fall of the airfield and the Group’s customers and others USAAF and RAF during WW2. aircraft, including Concorde, aircraft that were tested in to the Mediterranean and that part of Surrey. It includes further afield. Lockheed TriStar and DC-10, Boeing 737: The world’s together with light aircraft a breakdown of movement at the airfield for the Supermarine most controversial from Cessna, Piper, Rockwell SERVICE AVIATION commercial jetliner by and Embraer. There are also Attacker, Canadair Sabre and Sea Fury. G M Simons, Air World, 2020, accounts of working with test RAF WWII operational and 288pp. pilots, such as D P Davies, flying accident casualty After looking at the John Carrodus and Nick MISSILE HISTORY files in the National original concept and the Warner. Archives: Exploring their different series of aircraft, Assured destruction: contents by Mary Hudson, Air Harrier 809: Britain’s -100, -200, -300, -400/800, High flight: The life and Building the ballistic World, 2020, 302pp. legendary jump jet and -500/600 and -900, the poetry of Pilot Officer John missile culture of the US Packed with examples, the untold story of the book then investigates the Gillespie Magee by Roger Air Force by David W Bath, this is an in-depth guide to Falklands War by Rowland accidents surround the ‘rudder Cole, Flight High Ltd, 2013, Naval Institute Press, 2020, the information to be found White, Bantam Press, 2020, mysteries’ in the 1990s and 175pp. 238pp. in the key accident series of 481pp. the grounding of the 737 A half-biography, half- In the mid-1950s reports housed at the National An account of the MAX, before asking whether poetry anthology, centring plans were being developed Archives. development of the aircraft that the company can survive. To borrow these and thousands of other titles contact the National Aerospace Library. E [email protected] W www.aerosociety.com/catalogue MARCH 2021 51.