Putnam Aeronautical 1990 Km/h. Approaching the outer limits 1941 to the present: up to 800 Km/h. 1990 Appendices: Chronological data. Technical data Frontis.: Wilbur Wright flying in , 1908 90/1 Aircraft of the Notes: first published 1989 in German by R. 1936-39. Gerald Howson Oldenbourg Verlag, as Weltrekordflugzeuge. An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 4to. pp. Translated by Keith Thomas [x] [1-2] 3-310. 363 photos, 2pp. maps. Index. p.[vii] This book provides a detailed portrayal of Col. d.j. wrap-round painting by Keith the fascinating and frequently dramatic history Woodcock [Polikarpov I.16 and Fiat CR.32] of the ‘FAI class C-1, group I’, the fastest land- Printers: typeset and designed by Swanston based aircraft powered by piston engine and Graphics Ltd, Derby; printed and bound by propellor, from the year 1903 to the present day. William Clowes Ltd, Beccles [cat. 1998] The author traces the development of Price: £35 racing and record-breaking landplanes through ISBN: 0 85177 842 9 the era to the Macchi-Castoldi MC 72, Introduction: Note on Spanish names. Spanish the HE 112 and Messerchmitt Me 209 aviation on the eve of the Civil War. Outline of and the types now dominating the racing scene the Spanish Civil War. The opposing air forces. in the United States. Colours, camouflage and insignia Appendices: I: Civil War airlines. II: The 90/3 Japanese aircraft 1910-1941. Robert clandestine importation of aircraft into C. Mikesh and Shorzoe Abe during the civil war of 1936-39. III: Types and An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 4to. pp. numbers of aircraft used by the opposing sides [v] vi-ix [x] blank 1-293. 371 photos, 12 side- 1936-39 view drawings. Bibliog., index. Col. wrap-round Frontis.: A Dewoitine D.371 of the 1a painting on d.j. by Keith Woodcock [Mitsubishi Escuadrilla of Grupo 71 of the Republican air A5M4] force is shot down over Catalonia by a Fiat Printers: designed by Tony Hart; typeset by C.R.32 in the spring of 1938 Witwell Ltd, Southport; printed by William Notes: [d.j.] Gerald Howson has spent fifteen Clowes Ltd, Beccles years researching the subject and this book Price: £30 contains a wealth of information that will be new ISBN: 0 85177 840 2 to most readers and some of it new even to Contents: The early years. Early privately-built specialists in the subject aircraft. Manufacturers [rear cover] ... The 280 or so aircraft types which Appendices: A: Japanese aircraft of the Pacific took part are described in detail ... War period. B: Calendar conversion for Japanese [cat. 1998] listed as forthcoming reprint, same Army and Navy aircraft type numbers. C: ISBN, £35 Bibliography. D: Glossary Frontis.: This Mitsubishi Army Type 87 Light 90/2 World speed record aircraft: the was an adaptation of the very successful fastest piston-engined landplanes since 1903. Navy Type 13 Carrier Attack of 1923 Ferdinand C.W. Käsmann Notes: for subsequent period cf. item 70/3 An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. pp. [viii] p.[1] For the vast number of Japanese aeroplane [1] 2-241.104 photos, 51 g.a. drawings, 44 diags. types that were built during the period covered and facsims. Bibliog., index. Col. d.j. wrap- by this book, it is disappointing that more has round painting by Wilfred Hardy [Conquest I, not been written in English. Differences in modified Grumman Bearcat] language and translation difficulties have been Printers: typeset by The Word Shop, the primary cause, leaving Japanese aviation Rossendale, printed by The Alden Press, Oxford pioneers and the early formation of the Japanese Price: £20 aviation industry virtually unknown to the rest of ISBN: 0 85177 844 5 the world. It is hoped, therefore, that this book Contents: Introduction. The pioneer period will bring to a wider audience a new insight into 1903-1914: up to 200 Km/h. The biplane the background of early aviation history in triumphs 1918-1927: up to 450 Km/h. Japan. Included in this coverage are all the Streamlining prevails 1931-1940: up to 760 Japanese aircraft built in Japan (some unsuccessful but nevertheless meaningful in some respect) as well as the few in number that of aircraft design and manufacturing by the ten were built in Europe and the United States to a companies ... Each of these sections includes specification created in Japan but that affected histories of the manufacturers themselves, further development of the design as a Japanese followed by the aircraft types and, unlike other aircraft. Not included are gliders and lighter- Putnam titles, which use appendices, selected than-air craft projects and production information. With such a [rear cover] ... covers nearly 400 types of vast subject, there have been limits to the Japanese aircraft, ranging from Awazu Flight exhaustiveness of detail that can be included. Research Studio’s single type through the ouput Therefore, although attempting to remain close of Aichi, Kawanishi, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi and to the Putnam traditions of thoroughness with Nakajima to the production of Yokosuka, the regard to historical and technical facts, some Naval Air Arsenal aircraft type histories have been subject to [cat. 1998] This book will almost certainly come editing by the author, along with licence to be regarded as one of the truly outstanding production of other unrelated manufacturers’ works of aviation history. As a result of massive types. Also, the sections referring to unbuilt research, the authors have included descriptions projects and production lists have been of the products of large numbers of companies intentionally restricted in scope. and organisations that were previously known to [rear cover] ... traces the development of ten only a few people outside Japan. companies which eventually led to the production of aircraft under the General 90/4 General Dynamics aircraft and their Dynamics title and over one hundred aircraft predecessors . John Wegg designs ... are dealt with. ... covers some of the An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 4to. pp. best known companies involved in United States [i-vi] [7] 8-255. 338 photos, 52 g.a. drawings. aviation for ore than 70 years. Index. Col. wrap-round painting on d.j. by Keith Woodcock [Consolidated Catalina I, 210 Sqn. 90/5 Parnall aircraft since 1914. Kenneth RAF] E. Wixey Printers: designed by Tony Garrett; typeset by An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. pp. [iv] Inforum Typesetting, Portsmouth; printed and 5-240. 211 photos, 12 g.a. drawings, 5 diags. and bound by William Clowes Ltd, Beccles facsims. Bibliog., index. Col. wrap-round ISBN: 0 85177 833 X painting on d.j. by Keith Woodstock [Parnall Price: £30 Panther] Contents: Thomas Brothers and Thomas-Morse. Printers: typeset by Witwell Ltd, Southport; Dayton-Wright. Consolidated Aircraft printed by William Clowes Ltd, Beccles; bound Corporation. Hall Aluminium. Stinson. Convair. by Biddles Ltd, Guildford General Dynamics Price: £24 Frontis.: The AFTI/F-16 (75-750) at Fort Worth ISBN: 0 85177 841 0 in 1982 (General Dynamics photo) Contents: Parnall Works lineage chart. Family Notes: US ed. by Naval Institute Press business. The Fishponds connection. George p.[7] ... there are three aircraft manufacturers that Parnall and Company. Parnall Aircraft Limited. are eligible for inclusion in this volume but have Parnall and Sons Limited: aircraft built under had to be omitted because of space contract 1914-1918. George Parnall and considerations. Canadair ... Fleet Aircraft of Company 1920-1935. Parnall Aircraft Limited Canada, formed to produce the Consolidated 1935-1939 Model 14 under licence. The other omitted Appendices: A: Individual aircraft notes. B: company is Cessna Aircraft, acquired by General Dispositions of certain Parnall-built aircraft on Dynamics in 1985. ... These three deliberate naval duty 1918 pretermissions have not lessened the need for a Frontis.: The only surviving Parnall aeroplane. different approach to that followed by other titles Parnall Elf G-AAIN at Old Warden in 1981 after in this series, as the remaining ten companies restoration by the Shuttleworth Trust ... (John A. produced over one hundred basic types ... Long LRPS) Further complicating the format was the intricate Notes: [p.9] The primary aim of this book is to family tree of the predecessor companies ... firmly establish the name of Parnall in its richly Therefore, this book is divided into four separate deserved niche in the annals of British parts which more logically follow the progress aeronautical achievements. It is intended also as a tribute to a comparatively small, but [rear cover] presents the history and work of the nevertheless, proud pair of family businesses ... Factory up to the time it ceased designing [rear cover] The history and development, aeroplanes, and all of the machines designed and outlined in great detail, of the Parnall companies built at Farnborough are fully described. and their aircraft and their varied association [cat. 1998] Though initially concerned with with the Admiralty, Air Ministry and the British balloons and airships, the Royal Aircraft Factory aviation industry. came to build a number of memorable aircraft, the most outstanding of which was the SE5, 90/6 Avro aircraft since 1908. A.J. Jackson. deployed during the First World War. The Revised and updated by R.T. Jackson company also produced the BE, FE and RE Revised ed. series See: 65/1[2] 90/10 The Putnam Aeronautical Review, 90/7 United States Navy aircraft since volume 1. Edited by John Motum 1911. Gordon Swanborough and Peter M. An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 31 x Bowers 23.5cm. pp. [iv] 1-256. 388 photos, 7 g.a. [Rev. ed.] drawings, 14 diags., 18 maps, 4 facsims. Index. See: 68/3[3] Black and white d.j. with monochrome photog. illus. [Hawker P.1127 front; Vickers Vimy rear]. 90/8 McDonnell Douglas aircraft since Black cloth 1920: volume II. René J. Francillon Printers: typeset by Swanston Graphics Ltd, 2nd ed. Derby. Printed and bound by Page Bros. See: 79/2[3] (Norwich) Ltd. Price: annual subscription £16 90/9 The Royal Aircraft Factory. Paul R. ISBN: 0 85177 837 2 Hare ISSN: 0955-7822 An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. pp. [xii] Notes: bound volume comprising issues nos. 1-4, 1-318. 228 photos, 47 g.a. drawings, 5 diags. and March-December 1989. For detailed contents of plans. Index. Col. wrap-round painting on d.j. by each issue cf. items 89/8-11 Keith Woodcock [F.E.2b and Albatross D.III, Published in the USA and Canada by the Naval 1917] Institute Press, Annapolis Md, ISBN 0 87021 Printers: typeset by The Word Shop, 610 4 Rossendale; printed by Clays Ltd, St. Ives Price: £25 90/11 The Putnam Aeronautical Review, ISBN: 0 85177 843 7 issue number 5 Dedication: to Leonard E. Opdycke without March 1990, pp.1-64 whose inspiration and encouragement it would ISBN: 0 85177 534 9 never have been written Contents: Aircraft gun turrets prior to the Contents: Prehistory. A new era begins. Second World War: a historical survey, Maurice Aeroplanes again. Military and other trials. Allward. From Paris to Chicago, 1919-44: ‘the Tested in battle. Enemies in high places. Change civilisation of air transport’, Sir Peter Masefield. and decay. Airships. Aeroplanes Schneider Trophy update: a light-hearted Appendices: 1: Prototype production. 2: introduction to handicap air racing, John Blake. Production machines. 3: Royal Aircraft Factory Venturing towards commercial reward: the engines. 4: Survivors and reproductions beginnings of US domestic air transport, part 1: Frontis.: A fine air-to-air study of the subsidy and regulation 1919-1928, R.E.G. Shuttleworth Collection’s S.E.5a, G-EBIA/F904 Davies. Submarine aviation, Terry Treadwell. taken on April 11, 1977, shortly after its first Regional airport: Rotterdam, Theo Wesselink. flight following the replacement of the geared Forum. Book reviews 200hp Hispano-Suiza engine by a direct-drive Notes: cf. description of bound vol. item 91/5 200hp Wolseley Viper (Air Portraits) Maurice Allward, with a working lifetime Notes: [p.vii] ... Pye Palm, who prepared the experience in aircraft design, notably at Hatfield, general arrangement drawings ... is known for his assiduous analytical research and for his ability to convey complex subjects. He has written many aviation books. John Blake is an accomplished artist, author, chief test pilot and aviation author, was tasked in Farnborough air show and air race commentator January 1944 with the formation of the first wing and overall shrewd observer of the aviation of the new Hawker Tempest Vs in preparation scene. He is a former international aerobatic for D Day and the repulse of a new and largely judge of the FAI and a former competitions unknown enemy weapon, a small unmanned manager of the Royal Aero Club. aircraft, V.1. Latterly he was director, flight R.E.G. Davies is Curator of Air Transport at the operations at BAC/BAe Warton and at Panavia National Air and Space Museum of the GmbH, Munich (Tornado programme). Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, where R.E.G. Davies, with a lifetime of involvement in he previously occupied the Charles A. Lindbergh the development of transport aircraft in Britain Chair of Aerospace History. He has spent much and the United States, and currently curator of of his working life in air transport in both the air transport at the National Air and Space manufacturing and airline industries. He is noted Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in particularly for his books on airline history. Washington, DC, continues his story ... Sir Peter Masefield’s eventful and unique J.D. Eagles is deputy managing director of career in aviation began in the design office of Panavia, Munich. After flying training with the Fairey Aviation, 1935-37, since when few US Navy, and loan service with the Royal aspects of aviation, particularly civil aviation, Australian Navy, he graduated from ETPS in have escaped a Masefield input. From 1943 to 1963 and was a test pilot at BAC Warton from 1945 he was secretary of the War Cabinet 1968. He was a Tornado project pilot in 1970, committee on air transport and personal adviser chief test pilot at Bae Warton in 1977-83, and on aviation to Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Privy later executive director flight operations. Seal. Air Chief Marshal Sir David Evans GCB, Terry Treadwell is a telecommunications CBE, was born, educated and pilot trained in engineer and author. His first book, Submarines Canada, followed by operational training at with Wings, was published by Conway Maritime Ismailia, Egypt, in 1944. A distinguished career Press. He is European correspondent of Naval in the RAF culminated with appointments as C Aviation News. in C Strike Command and C in C UK Air Forces Theo Wesselink’s writing, over a period of (NATO) in 1977-81. Finally he became Vice- twenty-five years, has concentrated on Dutch Chief of the Defence Staff in 1981-83 and is aviation history. Author of about a dozen books, currently military adviser to British Aerospace. his output includes a biography of designer Frits Alec Lumsden has had a lifetime of experience Koolheven, two volumes on the Dutch aircraft in aviation, including RAF service as a pilot on industry, and others on the country’s airlines. operational, test and staff duties in 1941-45. He has subsequently worked on the management 90/12 The Putnam Aeronautical Review, information side of industry, held staff issue number 6 appointment with the RAeS and Royal Aero June 1990. pp.65-128 Club, and has been technical editor of Interavia ISBN: 0 85177 550 0 and operations editor of the Aeroplane. Since Contents: Summer 1940: know your enemy: the 1973 he has become well known as an Messerchmitt Bf.109E-3, Alec Lumsden. independent aviation writer. Defence against the flying bombs, Roland Leo Marriott is an air traffic controller, author Beamont. Interceptor defence continues with the and aviation feature writer and editor Lightning, Sir David Evans. Preparing a bomber specialising in civil aviation subjects destroyer: the Panavia Tornado ADV, J.D. Sir Peter Masefield, who continues his story of Eagles. Bermuda 1, Sir Peter Masefield. The the evolutionary regulation of air transport as the National Air and Space Museum, John Stroud. Second World War drew to a close, was Venturing towards commercial reward: the appointed British Civil Air Attaché at the British beginnings of US domestic air transport, part 2: Embassy in Washington, DC, in July 1945 trimotored safety 1926-1932, R.E.G. Davies. where he was involved in preparations for the Regional airport: Newcastle International, Leo Anglo-American conference at Bermuda. Marriott. Forum. Book reviews Notes: cf. description of bound vol., item 91/5 90/13 The Putnam Aeronautical Review, Wg Cdr Roland Beamont, CBE, DSO and Bar, issue number 7 DFC and Bar, DFC (USA), DL, fighter pilot, September 1990. pp.129-192 ISBN: 0 85177 551 9 the first to be awarded the Pathfinder badge on Contents: Striving towards commercial reward: beginning PFF operations in August 1942. the beginnings of US domestic air transport, part R.E.G. Davies ... He has spent much of his 3: the quest for speed and efficiency 1932-1933, working life in air transport, with Bristol, de R.E.G. Davies. The basic strategy of Airbus, Havilland and British European Airways in Roger Béteille. Airbus: the formative years, Britain, and Douglas in the United States. ... Derek Brown. Airbus: expanding the product David W.H. Godfrey P Eng, MRAeS, AFAIAA range, Derek Brown. Airbus A320: a is an international aerospace writer. He trained at coalescence of European entrepreneurial talents, the Miles Technical School and joined de David W.H. Godfrey. British bomber defence Havilland Propellers before working on the 1939-1945, J.R. Bushby. Anywhere to Aeroplane. A professor at the Ryerson anywhere: the origins of Air Transport Polytechnical Institution, Toronto, since 1971, Auxiliary, John Blake. Book reviews he has also worked in industry with Canadair Notes: cf. description of bound vol. item 91/5 and Lockheed. Roger Béteille F Eng, Hon FRAeS, ANAE, Hon M DGLR is a former managing director of 90/14 The Putnam Aeronautical Review, Airbus Industrie, and successively technical and issue number 8 co-ordinating director and general manager until December 1990. pp.193-256 his retirement in 1985. He graduated in ISBN: 0 85177 552 7 engineering and aeronautics, studying at the Contents: Royal Navy carriers and their aircraft École Polytéchnique, ENSAe, and Centre des 1937-1945, H.C.N. Goodhart. Airborne search Hautes Études de l’Armement. A design and and rescue in the United Kingdom, David flight test engineer, navigator and pilot, he was Morgan. Striving towards commercial reward: head of the Flight Test Department of Sud-Est the beginnings of US domestic air transport, part Aviation, Toulouse (Languedoc, Armagnac, 4: putting it all together, the Douglas twins, Caravelle), and technical director of the Missile R.E.G. Davies. Birth of a nation, birth of an and Satellite Division, Sud-Aviation. airline: the history of PIA, Enver Jamall. PIA John Blake, artist, author, accomplished and today, Anthony Vandyk. Pioneering on the practical aviation man recently retired as South Atlantic, Italian style: the history of LATI, exhibitions executive with SBAC. He is a Roberto Gentilli. Regional airport: Colorado founder member of the Guild of Aviation Artists, Springs, Robert E. Maunton. Forum. Book past and current chairman, and holder of a reviews private pilot’s licence. ... Notes: cf. description of bound vol. item 91/5 Derek Brown Bsc (Hons) Eng, DIC, C Eng, R.E.G. Davies. Transport aircraft market FCGI, FRAeS is a former vice-president of new analyses and traffic forecasting have been at the products policy co-ordination at Airbus core of his experience both in Europe and the Industrie. He graduated in aeronautics at the United States, first with the United Kingdom’s Imperial College, London, and took an Ministry of Civil Aviation and then with British engineering apprenticeship with the de Havilland European Airways. He later went to Bristol, de Aircraft Company. He was assistant chief Havilland and Douglas. ... aerodynamicist/ chief project engineer/head of Dr Roberto Gentilli, author and aviation projects and research at Bae Hatfield, and team historian, specialises in Italian aviation, leader of the international Joint European particularly the period between the two world Transport (JET) Team 1977-79. He joined wars. ... Airbus in 1979, and was programme manager on Rear Admiral H.C.N. Goodhart CB, Legion of the A320 from 1981 to go-ahead. He retired in Merit (USA), is an aviation man of many parts, 1986. first serving as an RN engineer officer, FAA John Bushby joined the RAF in 1938 and pilot and Empire test pilot. He has been a trained as an air gunner in 1941. In Hampdens, national and international gliding champion, Manchesters and Lancasters, he made forty constructor of a pioneering man-powered successive sorties over Germany before being aircraft, and inventor of the mirror landing sight shot down and taken prisoner in November for aircraft operating onto carriers. 1942. Completing a gunnery leader’s course Enver Jamall entered civil aviation with TATA while on No. 83 Squadron, his crew was among in India in 1939. Both a qualified engineer and private pilot, he became deputy general manager of PIA on its inception in 1952, later becoming engineering manager. Appointments as operations director, then director marketing and sales followed, before he became managing director and finally chairman in 1978. He retired in 1981. Robert E. Maunton is a lifelong aviation enthusiast who has had a varied career, the aviation portions including airline station agent, aircraft crash fire fighter/rescuer and management analyst. He has ‘finally retired after twenty Mr Chips years of teaching, writing and literature.’ He lives in Colorado Springs ... David Morgan, a Scot and qualified pilot, with RAF and RN connections, edits a local newspaper in Moray, northern Scotland, where he is well placed to observe the important SAR activity centred there. Anthony Vandyk, Geneva-based, is international editor for Air Transport World of Washington DC, with a large airline parish which includes PIA, an airline long known to him both in his present capacity and earlier when with IATA or in aviation journalism.

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