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GENERAL No12 Squadron during the Lincoln, Beaufighter, de ‘Sam’ Marshal of the refineries. S J Zaloga. Osprey Low Altitude Bombing System Havilland Mosquito/Vampire/ Royal The Lord Publishing, Kemp House, (LABS) weapons delivery Venom, English Electric/ Elworthy: a Biography. R Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, trials among many other BAC Canberra/Strikemaster, Mead. Pen &Sword Aviation, Oxford OX2 9PH, UK. 2019. experiences recalled from a , Hawker Pen & Sword Books, 47 96pp. Illustrated. £14.99. ISBN flying career of over 45 years. Hunter/Sea Fury, Hunting Church Street, Barnsley, S 978-14728-3180-4. Percival Jet Provost, Short Yorkshire S70 2AS, UK. 2018. A very detailed analysis of Dorset Aviation Past and Sunderland/Sandringham, xiii; 330pp. Illustrated. £25. the operational effectiveness Present. Royal Aeronautical Walrus and ISBN 978-1-52672-717-6. of the USAAF ‘Tidal Wave’ Society Christchurch Branch. SEPECAT Jaguar among A biography of the New mission of 1 August 1943 2016. 50pp. Illustrated. other aircraft types) that were Zealander Air Chief Marshal during WW2 which aimed A concise illustrated either sold to or operated in Sir Charles Elworthy MRAF to destroy strategically history of the development , , Chile, Cuba, (1911-1993) – subsequently important oil refineries in of aviation in Bournemouth, Dominican Republic, , the Lord Elworthy – who, from Romania using Consolidated Poole, Portland, Weymouth, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and initially joining the Reserve Air B-24D Liberators flown from Chickerell, Bridport, Toller, Venezuela and the British Force Officers in 1933, rose Benghazi in . Upton, Moreton, Christchurch, colonies of British Guiana/ to being appointed both Chief Global Megatrends Swanage, Weymouth, Belize and the Falklands, of the Air Staff in September German Flak Defences and Aviation: the Warmwell, Tarrant Rushton Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, 1963 and also in 1967 Chief vs Allied Heavy Path To Future-Wise and Hurn. Nicaragua and Paraguay of the Defence Staff during 1942-45. D Nijboer. Osprey Organizations. P Coutu et among the other countries a turbulent period of British Publishing, Kemp House, al. The ASI Institute, Aviation featured. An appendix defence cuts overseen by Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, Strategies International, recording individual aircraft Denis Healey. Oxford OX2 9PH, UK. 2019. 440 René-Levesque Blvd histories concludes the volume. 80pp. Illustrated. £13.99. ISBN West, Suite 1202, Montréal Camel Pilot Supreme: 978-14728-3671-7. (Québec) H2Z 1V7 Hawker: the Story of the Captain D V Armstrong An overview of the Allied (https://asi-institute.aero/ 125. B Gunston. Airworthy DFC. A Carson. Air World, Pen RAF and USAAF bombing megatrends). 2019.xv; 474pp. International Publications & Sword Books, 47 Church campaign over Germany during Illustrated. $165. ISBN 978-1- Limited, Bury. 1996. 157pp. Street, Barnsley, S Yorkshire WW2, summarising the leading 9990077-2-0. Illustrated. ISBN 0-9528845- S70 2AS, UK. 2019. vii; aircraft types involved and the Various authors 0-X. 264pp. Illustrated. £25. ISBN German ground-to-air defence contribute to this review of A detailed history of the 978-152675-267-3. system mounted against them. how the world’s design evolution of the de Including colour artist industry could/will be Havilland DH125 and its later impressions by Lynn Williams, a SPACE affected by climate change, variants including the Dominie, biography of the South African economic shifts, urbanisation, Series 400/600/700/800, RFC pilot D’Urban Victor demographic changes, BAe1000 Armstrong (1897-1918) who, technology innovations and Douglas D-558: D-558-1 and Raytheon Hawker 800XP. during WW1, was to serve with global connectedness and how Skystreak and S-558-2 Nos 39, 44, 60, 78 and 151 it should respond. Skyrocket. X-Planes 12. Spitfire: Icon of a Nation. Squadrons and tragically was P E Davies. Osprey Publishing, I Rendall. Weidenfeld & to die on 13 November 1918 HISTORICAL Bloomsbury Publishing, Nicolson, London. 2008. – two days after the Armistice Kemp House, Chawley Park, 288pp. Illustrated. ISBN 978- – when his Sopwith Camel B-58 Hustler Units. Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9PH, 1-407-23095-5. C6713 failed to recover from Combat Aircraft 130. UK. 2019. 80pp. Illustrated. A well-illustrated large an aerobatic spin and crashed P E Davies. Osprey Publishing, £13.99. ISBN 978-14728- format history of the design at Bouvincourt aerodrome. Bloomsbury Publishing, 3621-2. evolution and air operations of Includes posthumous tributes Kemp House, Chawley Park, Including cutaway the iconic Supermarine fighter by General Jan Smuts, Air Cumnor Hill, Oxford, OX2 9PH, sectional views and aircraft and of its post-WW2 Marshal William A (Billy) UK. 2019. 96pp. Illustrated. contemporary photographs, a legacy. Bishop, Air Commodore £14.99. ISBN 978-14728- well-illustrated history of the Lionel E O Charlton, 3640-3. supersonic research aircraft MANAGEMENT Commander M G Christie, Air Including colour markings programme with adjustable Marshal John M Salmond and Returning People to the diagrams, a detailed history which contributed to Management of Defense Air Vice Marshal Sir Leslie Moon After Apollo: Will It of the design evolution the understanding of buffeting, Acquisition Projects Brown. Be Another Fifty Years? and variants of the Convair longitudinal stability and – Second edition. Edited P Norris. Springer. 2019. vii; supersonic and of effectiveness. by R G Rendon and K F Shackleton Boys Volume 231pp. Illustrated. £24.99. its operational role within Snider. American Institute of 2: True Stories from the ISBN 978-3-030-14914-7. Strategic Air Command (SAC). British Combat Aircraft in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shackleton Operators Latin America. S Rivas et al. Reston, VA. xvi; 373pp. 2019. Based Overseas. S Bond. One Giant Leap: the A Pilot’s Tales. H T Murley. Crécy Publishing, 1a Ringway Illustrated. Distributed by Grub Street, 4 Rainham Close, Impossible Mission that Published by Elizabeth Murley. Trading Estate, Shawdowmoss Transatlantic Publishers Group, London SW11 6SS, UK. 2019. Flew Us to the Moon. 2017. 181pp. Illustrated. ISBN Road, Manchester M225LH, 97 Greenham Road, London 288pp. Illustrated. £25. ISBN C Fishman. Simon & Schuster 978-1-7240-2700-9. UK. 2019. 621pp. Illustrated. N10 1LN, UK. £73 [20% 978-1-911621-33-1. UK Ltd, 1st Floor, 222 Gray’s Published posthumously, £44.95. ISBN 978-1-90210- discount available to RAeS The Inn Road, London WC1X the author recalls his pilot 957-2. members on request; E mark. air operations of the Avro 8HB, UK. 2019. xiii; 483pp. training and later operational Commencing with an [email protected]]. ISBN Shackleton maritime Illustrated. £25. ISBN 978-1- experiences during WW2 alphabetically arranged 978-1-62410-509-8. reconnaissance aircraft in 5011-0629-3. and his later post-war career country-by-country survey Gibraltar, Singapore (RAF which included flying at of the involvement of British SERVICE AVIATION Changi), Maldives (RAF Gan), the US Naval Air Station at aircraft types in the evolution (RAF ), Aden (RAF Patuxent River, flying research of military aviation in Central Winning Armageddon: Khormaskar) and the Trucial aircraft (including the de and South America in each Curtis LeMay and States (RAF Sharjah) and Havilland Vampire I, Gloster country prior to 1940, the main Strategic Air Command the For further information Meteor FMk8 and Armstrong focus of this book is a very 1948-1957. T Albertson. Naval (SAAF) operations of the MR3 contact the National Whitworth AW52 among other detailed account illustrated Institute Press, 291 Wood variant are recalled by the Aerospace Library. types) at the Royal Aircraft throughout with numerous Road, Annapolis, MD 21402, service personnel involved. T +44 (0)1252 701038 Establishment (RAE), NGTE contemporary photographs USA. 2019. xxii; 279pp. and Martin-Baker and serving of British aircraft types (Avro Illustrated. $40. ISBN 978- Ploesti 1943: the great raid or 701060 as Flight Commander of RAF Lancaster/Lancastrian/ 168247-422-8. on Hitler’s Romanian oil E [email protected]

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