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Putnam Aeronautical 1989 An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. pp. [iii] iv-viii 1-584. 463 photos, 53 g.a. drawings, 4 1989 dags. Col. wrap-round painting on d.j. by Dugald Cameron [Grumman TBF-1s of VT-8, Battle of 89/1 Saab aircraft since 1937. Hans G. Midway] Andersson Printers: Typeset by Saxon Printing Ltd, Derby; An imprint of Conway Maritime Press. 4to. pp. printed by William Clowes Ltd, Beccles [v] 6-190. 278 photos, 20 g.a. drawings, 6 diags. ISBN: 0 85177 835 6 Col. wrap-round painting on d.j. by Keith Price: £30 Woodcock [Saab Draken]. Contents: History of the Corporation. Aircraft Printers: University Printing House, Oxford designed and built by Grumman Aircraft ISBN: 0 85177 831 3 Engineering Price: £20 Appendices: A: Production summary. B: Design Contents: The Swedish aircraft industry - an numbers and representative projects. C: The historical survey. Aircraft Lunar Module Appendix: FFVS J22 Frontis.: Avenging the ‘Day of Infamy,’ an Frontis.: The Saab 37 shows its distinctive shape Eastern aircraft-built Grumman TBM-3 from (Saab photograph) Marine Torpedo Bomber Squadron 242 (VMTB- Notes: drawings by Carl G. Ahremark 242) flies over Mt Suribachi in March 1945 ... US ed. published by the Smithsonian Institution (USMC/National Archives photograph) Press Notes: [rear cover] ... traces the development and [p.7] This work describes the development of the service histories of all Grumman’s aircraft from Swedish aircraft and related industries the earliest FF and SF biplanes up to today’s F- [rear cover] In tracing the ancestry of Saab, this 14 Tomcat and the experimental X-29 with is book covers the entire history of the Swedish forward-swept wings aircraft industry from its beginnings before the [1998 cat.] listed as forthcoming reprint. Same First World War to the fiercely independent and ISBN, £35 highly innovative company of today ... an authoritative text by a man who was closely 89/3 United States military aircraft since associated with Saab for much of his life. 1909. F.G. Swanborough, Peter M. Bowers [2] Revised edition 1997: New ed. 208pp. 280 photos, 16 g.a. drawings See: 63/1[3] Price: £30 ISBN: 0 85177 886 0 89/4 Blackburn aircraft since 1909. A.J. [not held] Jackson [cat. 1998] The Saab 17 single-engined and the Revised ed. Saab 18 twin-engined bombers were the See: 68/1[2] company’s first products. But it was the appearance of the brilliant Draken and Viggen 89/5 Shorts aircraft since 1900. C.H. which established Saab’s reputation for Barnes. Revised by Derek N. James producing outstanding world-class aeroplanes. 2nd ed. Today the Saab 340 airliner is widely used, See: 67/1[2] having secured the international markets which eluded the Scania. Since the first edition was 89/6 Supermarine aircraft since 1914. C.F. published in 1989 the JAS 39 Gripen has gone Andrews and E.B. Morgan into full production as has the Saab 2000 2nd ed. reissued regional airliner. The Saab 340 has also been See: 81/1[3] developed into the Saab 340 AEW & C reconnaissance variant. The author has brought 89/7 Boeing aircraft since 1916. Peter M. the story fully up-to-date and revised the text Bowers throughout. [3rd] ed. See: 66/1[3] 89/2 Grumman aircraft since 1929. Rene J. Francillon 89/8 The Putnam Aeronautical Review, issue number 1 May 1989. pp. 1-64 Airfields 1939-1945, is due for publication in the ISBN: 0 85177 525 X late Spring. Contents: VC10: personal overview & John Stroud, in his work as an aviation writer, perspective, Sir George Edwards. VC10: in RAF has been making operational analyses of sectors service today, Barry C. Wheeler. VC10: a niche flown by transport aeroplanes of increasing in history, J.R. Finnimore. VC10: two complexity, up to and including Concorde, operational analyses, John Stroud. VC10: during a period of more than 40 years. engineering pedigree of a thoroughbred, Dr Barry Wheeler trained as an aviation journalist Norman Barfield. VC10 & Super VC10 in on Flight International and is currently editor of service with BOAC & British Airways, R.A.R. the British Ministry of Defence’s Joint Services Wilson. Wingtip technology, Maurice Allward. Recognition Journal. Istres-Damascus-Paris air race, Dr Roberto R.A.R. Wilson is an air historian, following a Gentilli. Regional airport: Liverpool, David lifetime of practical experience in aviation Smith including aerial survey work in over twenty Notes: cf. description of bound vol., item 90/10 countries and airline epxerience with both BEA [p.2] Why we are here. ... We aim to set the past and British Airways. He was in the RNVR record into the context of today. ... we shall throughout the Second World War and beyond recognise, trace and analyse the evolutionary as a senior observer and air signals officer, with paths that have led to the present. ... But we are detachments both to the RAF and USAAF on also determined that those who have been operations. responsible for aircraft development should find space on our pages the describe the background 89/9 The Putnam Aeronautical Review, to their work and tell us what influenced their issue number 2 decisions. July 1989. pp.65-128 Maurice Allward retired recently from BAe ISBN: 0 85177 527 6 Hatfield. From the time he began as a design Contents: Curtiss NC-4: first aircraft to cross the draughtsman at Hawker, Kingston, under Sir Atlantic, Frank J. Delear. Voyage of His Sidney Camm in the Second World War, he has Majesty’s Airship R34, Philip Jarrett. Alcock worked on forty-seven different aircraft types and Brown: first across the Atlantic direct, the and flown in as many again. He has written over Editor. Another Vimy, another time, D.G. fifty aviation books. Addicott. From Scapa Flow to Tokyo Bay: Dr Norman Barfield, following completion of Grumman aircraft in wartime service with the an engineering apprenticeship in 1950, has spent Fleet Air Arm, Dr René J. Francillon. No. 25 a working lifetime on the Brooklands site, Squadron Royal Air Force: half a century of principally concerned with the engineering developing round-the-clock interception, John development and promotion of commercial D.R. Rawlings. Building Britain’s best heavy aeroplanes. bomber, the Editor. VC10/Super VC10: small Sir George Edwards was pioneer and chief fleet operators, Dr Norman Barfield. Regional designer of the propeller turbine Viscount and airport: Hamburg, Gerhard Katzsch. the turbojet Valiant, first of the V bombers. He Notes: cf. description of bound vol., item 90/10 subsequently became design teams leader for the D.G. Addicott is a former Vickers test pilot, VC10, BAC One Eleven and the British portion current air show and films pilot, and former of the Concorde programme. chairman of the Vintage Aircraft Flying J.R. Finnimore was BOAC’s aircraft Association, during the period in which the development manager from the VC10’s Vickers Vimy replica was being built and flown. inception in 1958 until 1970, before continuing Dr Norman Barfield has spent much of his as the airline’s general manager supplies in the working lifetime in the engineering development Boeing 747 era. and promotion of commercial airliners built on Dr Roberto Gentilli, author and aviation the Brooklands site ... historian, concentrates his research on Italian Frank J. Delear is a well known aviation aviation between the two world wars. His five historian, author of five books including Famous published books include one on the Savoia First Flights across the Atlantic, biographer of Marchetti S.79. Igor Sikorsky and a former PR director of David Smith is an air traffic controller and Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United author, his principal subject being UK Technologies. aerodromes. His latest book, Britain’s Military Dr René J. Francillon is an independent Guy Roberty has approaching forty years’ researcher and air historian who lives in professional aviation experience, including five California and is well known as a Putnam Books years with the Belgian Air Force and the author. His latest Gruman aircraft since 1929 remainder with an international airline, with will be published later this year. service in London, Joahnnesburg, Stockholm Philip Jarrett is production editor of Flight and, currently, Montreal. He has held a PPL for International and has been researching and twenty years, collects aviation books, writes writing aviation history for more than twenty occasionally, preferably on aviation history. years. His book Another Icarus: Percy Pilcher Claims to be a total aviation person. and the Quest for Flight was published by the Johann-Friedrich (Hanfried) Schliephake Smithsonian Institution. trained as a radio operator and served principally Gerhard Katzsch, aviation and travel writer, on instruction duties in the wartime Luftwaffe. ives in Hamburg. He has had long-term From 1944 he was a radio navigator with the connections with both the British airline and No.1 Minensuch-Staffel of minesweeping aircraft manufacturing industries, and the travel Junkers Ju 52/3ms. He rejoined the new industry worldwide. Luftwaffe in 1956 serving until retirement. He is John D.R. Rawlings is a former C.P. Robertson an aviation author and historian with a special Trophy award winner for long-term writing on interest in aircraft armament. RAF subjects, including the development of a Sqn. Ldr. William Simpson, OBE DFC Croix Service awareness of its own history. A Second de Guerre, joined the RAF in 1935; as a pilot he World War flying instructor, he continued flying went to France with the AASF in September and has over sixty types in his logbook, was 1939. Wounded and badly burned he narrowly chaplain at the Royal Aircraft Establishment survived the German Blitzkrieg of the following Farnborough for seventeen years, and has written May.