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AIR TRANSPORT panel designs (including Atglen, PA 19310, USA. 2017. August 1911 only the second ISBN 978-1-910777-27-5. the individual instruments) Distributed by Gazelle Book woman in the world – after A very detailed account London City Airport: 30 of the Services Ltd, White Cross Mills, Elisa Raymonde Deroche in of the structure, organisation, Years Serving the Capital. I, Vc, Hightown, Lancaster LA1 4XS, France – to be awarded a training and operations of M Ginsberg. Business VI, UK. 400pp. Illustrated. £66.99. pilot’s license. The following the during the Travel News, Edgware. Boulton Paul Defiant, Bristol ISBN 978-0-7643-5321-5. year on 16 April 1912 Quimby mid-1930s as it became more 2017. Distributed by Crecy Beaufighter and North became the first woman overtly a military force, aircraft Publishing, 1a Ringway Trading American P-51B Mustang III. to fly across the English production within Germany Estate, Shawdowmoss Road, Channel, her achievement then was greatly expanded and Manchester M22 5LH, UK. GUIDED FLIGHT overshadowed by the breaking aircraft armament was 228pp. Illustrated. £25. ISBN news of the sinking of the developed, concluding with the 978-0-190043-8070. V2 – the A4 Rocket: from White Star liner Titanic, but Luftwaffe’s major involvement Officially opened on 5 Peenemunde to Redstone tragically she was to lose her in the Spanish Civil War. November 1987, a well- – Design – Development life on 1 July 1912 while flying illustrated history of the – Operations. M R Barber. her Bleriot XI at the Boston Air evolution, expansion and Crecy Publishing, 1a Ringway Meet held at Squantum, MA. current operations of the Trading Estate, Shawdowmoss UK’s only entirely new airport Road, Manchester M22 Evolution of the New which has been developed 5LH, UK. 2017. 296pp. European Fighter: a British since the end of WW2, the Illustrated. £50. ISBN 978-1- Industrial Perspective. I airport now handling over 4.5 906537531. Yates. British Aerospace, million passengers annually London. c.1988. 57pp. serving 60 destinations with HISTORICAL Illustrated. an increasing range of airliners Placed in the context of and business jets. post-1945 UK military aircraft Flying Man: Hugo Junkers development, a detailed AVIONICS AND SYSTEMS and the Dream of Aviation. review of the evolution of R Byers. Texas A&M University the EFA from the P110/ Beyond Horizons – the Press, College Station. 2016. Agile Combat Aircraft (ACA) RAPTOR Story. C Pocock xi; 245pp. Illustrated. $39.95. projects and the Experimental and A Jeffrey. UTC Aerospace ISBN 978-1-62349-464-3. Aircraft Programme (EAP) Systems. 2017. 119pp. and the major UK political Illustrated. Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-142. and European interests which Architect of Air Power: A well-illustrated Y Gordon and D Komissarov. need to be considered in the General Laurence S Kuter history of the evolution and Crecy Publishing, 1a Ringway international negotiations and and the Birth of the US operational applications of the Trading Estate, Shawdowmoss agreements. Paper based on Air Force. B D Laslie. The RAPTOR (Reconnaissance Road, Manchester M22 5LH, a lecture presented to the University Press of Kentucky, Airborne Pod for Tornado) UK. 2017. 560pp. Illustrated. Royal Aeronautical Society 663 South Limestone Street, sensor which, in July 2016, £44.95. ISBN 978-1- – Stevenage Branch on 24 Lexington, KY 40508-4008, logged its 10,000th flying hour 857803785. March 1988 and previously USA. 2017. 241pp. Illustrated. in RAF service during a tactical presented to the Royal $39.95. ISBN 978-0-813- reconnaissance mission over Undarkened Skies; the Swedish Academy of Military 16998-9. Iraq, from its origins in the American Aircraft Building Sciences, Stockholm, 15 US as the DB-110 sensor of the First World War. October 1987. 341 Squadron 60 Years which evolved from the Itek P R Hare. Fonthill Media (Greek-English text). I Lekas. Senior Year Electro-optical Limited, Millview House, PROPULSION Eagle Aviation. 2014. 85pp. Reconnaissance System Toadsmoor Road, Stroud Illustrated. ISBN 978-960-93- (SYERS). GL5 2TB, UK. 2017. 160pp. The Jet Engine Story 6058-6. Illustrated. £20. ISBN 978-1- – a Review: a review A compilation of colour Raytheon Sentinel: the 78155-651-1. of the early British photographs of the day-to-day Airborne Stand-Off Radar A history of the major jet engine story, operations and F-16CJ/ System (ASTOR) – past, escalation of aircraft and particularly in relation DJ Block 50 Fighting Falcon present and future. engine (focusing on the V12 to Frank Whittle, and a of 341 C Pocock. Raytheon UK. 2017. Liberty engine) production comparative summary Squadron Hellenic Air Force 39pp. Illustrated. that took place in America of early activity in other (HAF) which had previously A concise well-illustrated from April 1917 following countries that pioneered been equipped with the North history of the origins, its entry into WW1 and how, jet engines. A library American F-86E Sabre and evolution and deployment from the recommendations and research resource. the Northrop F-5A/B Freedom of the Raytheon airborne of the Aircraft Production FAST Monograph 004. Fighter. reconnaissance system which Board, numerous mainly British Harriet Quimby: Flying B Howard. Farnborough Air first entered RAF service in and European aircraft types Fair Lady. L Kerr. Schiffer Sciences Trust, Trenchard 2007, following a protracted (including the SE5a, Bristol Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley House, 85 Farnborough Road, MoD selection process Scout D/F2B fighter, de Road, Atglen, PA 19310, Farnborough, Hampshire and changing specification Havilland DH-4, Handley Page USA. 2016. Distributed by GU14 6TF, UK (E manager@ requirements. O/400, SPAD S.VII/ Gazelle Book Services Ltd, airsciences.org.uk). 2017. S.XIII and Caproni bombers) White Cross Mills, Hightown, 198pp. Illustrated. RAF WWII Fighter were exported or assembled/ Lancaster LA1 4XS, UK. Instrument Panels. built under licence in the US 112pp. Illustrated. £16.50. SERVICE AVIATION D Karnas. Published by to equip the US Air Service, ISBN 978-0-7643-5067-2. Stratus, , on behalf of its aircraft production industry Illustrated by a number of Phoenix – a Complete Mushroom Model Publications, by November 1918 having reproductions of contemporary History of the Luftwaffe 3 Gloucester Close, expanded almost beyond photographs, a concise 1918-1945: Volume 2 – Petersfield, Hants GU32 3AX, recognition. biography of the pioneering The Genesis of Air Power For further information UK (www.mmpbooks.biz). American woman journalist 1935-1937. R Meredith. contact the National 2017. 39pp. Illustrated. £15. Conquest of the and screenwriter of silent Helion & Company Limited, Aerospace Library. ISBN 978-83-65281-62-3. Skies: Seeking Range, movies for the D W Griffith 26 Willow Road, Solihull B91 T +44 (0)1252 701038 A compilation of Endurance, and the Biograph film company who 1UE, UK. 2017. Distributed by or 701060 detailed colour diagrams Intercontinental Bomber. (disguised as a man) learned Casemate, 10 Hythe Bridge and photographs of the W Wolf. Schiffer Publishing, to fly at the Moisant Aviation Street, Oxford OX1 2EW. lvi; E hublibrary@aerosoci- various cockpit instrument 4880 Lower Valley Road, School becoming on 1 836pp. Illustrated. £59.95. ety.com

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