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Library Additions BOOKS Library Additions BOOKS AIR LAW AVIONICS AND SYSTEMS HISTORICAL PROPULSION available to RAeS members International Air Carrier via www.crcpress.com using Liability: Safety and Hawker P.1103 and P.1121: Future Propulsion Systems AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN Security. D Hodgkinson Camm’s Last Fighter and Energy Sources in 978-0-367-14848-5. and R Johnston. Routledge, Projects. P Martell-Mead and Sustainable Aviation. S Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park B Hygate. Blue Envoy Press. Farokhi. John Wiley and Sons, THERMODYNAMICS Square, Milton Park, Abingdon 2015. 65pp. Illustrated. ISBN The Atrium, Southern Gate, OX14 4RN, UK. 2019. xv; 978-0-9561951-5-9. Chichester, West Sussex PO19 384pp. £29.99 [20% discount Illustrated throughout with 8SQ, UK. xxvii; 416pp. 2020. available to RAeS members numerous photographs, line Illustrated. £93.50. ISBN 978- via www.crcpress.com using arrangement diagrams and 1-119-41499-5. AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN cutaway views (including a 978-0-367-88962-3. cockpit arrangement diagram), SERVICE AVIATION a detailed history of the design AIR TRANSPORT evolution of the ultimately to be cancelled Hawker P.1103 and P.1121 interceptor fighter Taking Flight: the projects (including also the Foundations of American P.1096/P.097/P.1100/ Commercial Aviation, P.1104/P.1107/P.1116/ 1918-1938. M Houston P.1121/P.1122/P.1129 design Johnson. Texas A&M University Aircraft Systems: studies) and their proposed Press, College Station. 2019. Instruments, propulsion and weapon x; 287pp. Illustrated. $45. Communications, systems (including Red Hebe, ISBN 978-1-62349-721-7. Navigation and Control. Blue Dolphin and Red Beard). C Binns. John Wiley and Sons, Analytical Heat Transfer. The Atrium, Southern Gate, AVIATION MEDICINE J-C Han. CRC Press, Taylor & Chichester, West Sussex PO19 Vickers Valiant: the First of Francis Group, 6000 Broken 8SQ, UK. 2019. xv; 496pp. the V-Bombers. E B Morgan. Sound Parkway NW, Suite Illustrated. £90.95. ISBN 978- Midland Publishing, London. 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487- 1-119-25954-1. 2002. 127pp. Illustrated. ISBN 1-85780-134-2. 2742, USA. 2019. Distributed by Taylor & Francis Group, A detailed well-illustrated Blind Bombing: How 2 Park Square, Milton Park, history including cutaway Flying Tiger Ace: the Microwave Radar Brought Story of Bill Reed, China’s Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. xii; schematic views of the design the Allies to D-Day and Shining Mark 314pp. £54.99. [20% discount evolution, flight testing, . C Molesworth. Victory in World War II. N Osprey Publishing, Bloomsbury available to RAeS members operations and variants of the Fine. Potomac Books, Lincoln, Publishing, Kemp House, via www.crcpress.com using V-Force bomber, including the NE. 2019. Distributed by Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN RATOG (Rocket Assisted Take- Casemate, 10 Hythe Bridge Oxford OX2 9PH, UK. 2020. 978-0-367-38254-4. Off Gear) trials, concluding Street, Oxford OX1 2EW, UK. 367pp. Illustrated. £25. ISBN xvi; 230pp. Illustrated. £20. with individual aircraft histories. 978-14728-4003-5. TRAINING ISBN 978-1-64012-220-8. Incorporating a BAC X-11 Performance number of extracts from the FLIGHT SIMULATION Data: Performance Data subject’s diary and personal for Aircraft Powered by correspondence, a biography Aero-Neurosis: Pilots Two CFM-56 Engines. A History of Flight of an American pilot who of the First World War British Aircraft Corporation – Simulation. C R Wood. during WW2 flew 75 missions and the Psychological Aerodynamics Department, Published by the author, in China with the American Legacies of Combat. Weybridge. Irregular Sandhills. 2019. Irregular Volunteer Group (AVG) – the M C Wilkins. Pen & Sword Pagination. August 1976. pagination. Illustrated. ‘Flying Tigers’ commanded Aviation, Pen & Sword Books, Compilation of by Major General Claire Lee A detailed company history 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S performance charts for a Chennault – and later with the – illustrated throughout with Yorkshire S70 2AS, UK. 2019. proposed development of the Chinese-American Composite x; 178pp. Illustrated. £19.99. numerous photographs and BAC One-Eleven for both the Wing (CACW), a provisional ISBN 978-1-5267-312-3. other diagrams – of Air Trainers full 24,000lbf rating available unit of the Chinese Air Force Ltd (ATL) and the key role it two years after service entry (CAF) under operational Beginning with the played in the evolution of flight pioneering research of Dr H and the initial in-service rating control of the USAAF’s simulation and pilot training of 22,000/24,000lbf which Fourteenth Air Force. Graeme Anderson – author through the manufacture under of Medical and Surgical permitted use of the full rating licence of the Link Trainer only for an engine failure. Aspects of Aviation (London: and its numerous variants (in SPACE Henry Frowde and Hodder & the particular the D4). Later Engaging the Next Stoughton. 1919) – a history simulators assembled for the Super VC10: Reprinted Resilient Space Systems Generation of Aviation of how the science of aviation Airspeed Ambassador, Vickers from Aircraft Engineering Design: an Introduction. Professionals. Edited by psychiatry evolved during the Viscount/Vanguard, de Havilland Vol 37(4) April 1965. British R Burch. CRC Press, Taylor & S K Kearns et al. Routledge, conflicts of WW1, concluding Comet 4B, Avro Vulcan, Aircraft Corporation, London. Francis Group, 6000 Broken Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park with a compilation of case Hawker Hunter, Supermarine 1965. 29pp. Illustrated. Sound Parkway NW, Suite Square, Milton Park, Abingdon studies of the effects of N113 Scimitar and English A compilation of well- 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487- OX14 4RN, UK. 2020. xix; the war on the fighter pilots Electric P1B Lightning are also illustrated articles describing 2742, USA. 2020. Distributed 302pp. £45 [20% discount Elliott White Springs, William briefly described, the volume the aircraft’s interior design, by Taylor & Francis Group, available to RAeS members Lambert, Roy Brown, Ernst concluding with a history of the fuselage passenger/freight 2 Park Square, Milton Park, via www.crcpress.com using Udet, Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock Link Celestial Navigation and transport variants, seating, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. xi; AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN and Georges Guynemer. Bombing Trainer. systems and equipment. 180pp. £100. [20% discount 978-0-367-25427-8. For further information contact the National Aerospace Library. T +44 (0)1252 701038 or 701060 E [email protected] 48 AEROSPACE.
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