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- Library Additions BOOKS AIRCRAFT showing typical layouts, a The civil applications of Yorks in 246 Squadron in astronaut, including an account simple three view general helicopters: Report on a January 1945, Yorks in 511 of his time training for and arrangement drawing, a list visit to the USA in April Squadron for November 1944, working on the International of general characteristics 1947 by R H Whitby, 1947, December 1944 and January Space Station and his time and a performance summary, 67pp. 1945 and Dakotas in 525 training and serving as a together with a number of A thorough report looking Squadron for November 1944, helicopter pilot in the Army graphs illustrating the aircraft’s at the full range of options December 1944 and January Air Corp. performance. being explored in the US 1945. for the use of helicopters. Fighters in the blood: The Selected flight test Includes information from SPACE story of a Spitfire pilot reports by R E Clear CEng operators, details of potential & the son who followed FRAeS, Deputy Chief Test uses including for air mail and in his footsteps by ‘Black’ Pilot of Airspeed, on the agriculture, draft air traffic rules Robertson, Air World, 284pp, AS57 Ambassador 48-seat and details of operating costs. 2020. transport aircraft, 1948-52, This book explores 1 file. FLUID MECHANICS the career of Air Marshal Graham ‘Black’ Robertson, Hawker: Aeroplanes that including his RAF training, Bristol Fighter: Frank Annual Review of Fluid have set a new standard by squadron commands during Barnwell’s ubiquitous Mechanics edited by P Moin H G Hawker Engineering Co the Falklands conflict, service multirole masterpiece by and Howard A Stone, Annual Ltd, [1929?], 31pp. in Bahrain, Germany, and at Ray Sturdevant, Gordon Page, Reviews, 2021, 644pp. RAF Wattisham and his time James J Halley and Philip A marketing brochure The annual review of fluid giving brief details of their at the Ministry of Defence. Air Jarrett, Air-Britain, 472pp, mechanics exploring subjects main aircraft types, printed in Marshal Robertson’s memoir 2020. such as fluids at the nanoscale, both English and Chinese. is interwoven with accounts After a look at the designing multicellular engineered living systems, of the wartime service of his aircraft’s development by the father, ‘Robbie’ Robertson. British and Colonial Aircraft AIR POWER HISTORY Leonardo da Vinci and Fluid Company, this book explores Mechanics, Levitation and the role the aircraft played Self-Organisation of Droplets, Lunar outfitters: Making Mother of the few: The in WW1 and beyond. As is Predicting the Drag of Rough the Apollo Space Suit by aviation interests of Lucy, expected of an Air-Britain Surfaces, The Fluid Dynamics Bill Ayrey, University Press of Lady Houston DBE by title, this is accompanied of Disease Transmission Florida, 2020, 407pp. Charles E Mac Kay, 2020, Cleaning and Decontamination 287pp. by histories of each aircraft The Model A-7L pressure of Surfaces. produced. The book also suit worn by the Apollo 11 A look at the life of Fanny contains a beautiful selection astronauts, and the Model Houston and the two major of photographs, line drawings The Comet racers A-7LB that replaced it in aeronautical projects that she and colour profiles, together uncovered by Guy Inchbald, 1971, originated at ILC supported: the British entry to with technical details Steelpillow, 2021, 48pp. Industries (now ILC Dover, LP), the 1931 Schneider Trophy reproduced from government A study of the an obscure Delaware industrial and the Houston-Mount publications. development of the de firm. ILC space suit test Everest Flight Expedition of Havilland DH88 Comet engineer Bill Ayrey draws on 1933. Vickers VC10 & Super and the stories of the five original files and photographs VC10 by L Cole, Pen & Sword racing aircraft produced. It to tell the dramatic story of the C C Walker CBE Korean air war: Sabres, Aviation, 2020, 84pp. also contains details of the company’s role in the Apollo HonFRAeS, 1877-1968: A MiGs and Meteors, 1950- derivatives, replicas, copies and programme. centenary appreciation by An illustrated guide to the 53 by Michael Napier, Osprey, models made over the years. David R Newman, 1977, 10pp. aircraft, together with advice 2021, 319pp. HISTORY: AIRCRAFT A paper on one of the key and colour schemes aimed at This beautifully illustrated FIRMS figures from Airco and the de helping those building models book on the Korean War SERVICE AVIATION Havilland Aircraft Company, of the aircraft. explores the different phases comprising of the text and of the air war and the major Air Transport Auxiliary at Secret Spitfires: Britain’s 75 years of the Lockheed campaigns of the land war. war: 80th anniversary of its hidden civilian army by Karl slides of a lecture presented Martin Skunk Works by J C It also examines in detail formation by Stephen Wynn, Howman, Ethem Cetintas and to the Royal Aeronautical Goodall, Osprey, 2021, 384pp. the air power of the major Pen & Sword Aviation, 2021, Gavin Clarke, History Press, Society’s Hatfield Branch on 26 October 1977. A beautifully illustrated combatants, which included 133pp. 2020, 191pp. photographic record of North and South Korea, the An exploration of how The Supermarine the aircraft, missile and UK, Australia, Canada and the newspapers reported the factory in Southampton was Save me an egg by Geoff UAV programmes built and South Africa, as well as China, ATA together with information all but destroyed by enemy Copeman, 1976, 20pp. proposed at Lockheed Martin’s the US and the USSR. on their pilots who died during bombing in 1940. This book An unpublished account factory, starting with the XP-80 the war. tells the story of how Spitfire of a RAF serviceman based Shooting Star and finishing AIR TRANSPORT production was dispersed and at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, is packed with photographs with the proposed SR-72 Son RAF maintenance: during WW2. of Blackbird. and reminiscences from Telling aircraft tails: A planning & organisation, those who contributed to history of Britain’s airlines 1939-45, [1939-46?], 1 file. production. Memories of visiting Short Nomad 22: A new in 40 aircraft by G Halford- A file of papers including Brothers and flying at approach to STOL from MacLeod, History Press, 2021, proposals for maintenance Eastchurch before and BIOGRAPHIES & Australia by Australian 239pp. organisation in 116 Wing, during World War I by Alec AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Department of Trade and Civil aviation’s beautifully and notes on training and Ogilvie, 1954, 8pp. Industry. Trade Publicity illustrated answer to ‘The supplies from British South Includes memories of Branch, [1972?], 20pp. history of the world in 100 African Airways. It also Limitless: The visiting Short Brothers in 1909, A marketing brochure, objects’, highlights 40 contains analysis of the state autobiography by Tim Peake, being one of the first Britons to including descriptions individual aircraft to tell of C-87s and Halifax IIIs of Century, 2020, 478pp. fly their own Wright aircraft and of the aircraft and its the wider story of Britain’s 216 Squadron for December The story of Britain’s how Eastchurch’s club entered systems. Includes diagrams airliners. 1944 and January 1945, first European Space Agency WW1. To borrow these and thousands of other titles contact the National Aerospace Library. E [email protected] W www.aerosociety.com/catalogue MAY 2021 59.