66/1 Boeing
aircraft since 1916. Peter M. Bowers
pp. [iv] 5-444. 381 photos, 80 g.a.
drawings, 3 diags. Index. Brown and yellow photog. [Boeing 367-80]
illus. d.j.
Printers:
William Clowes & Sons Ltd, Beccles
Price:
63s.
Contents:
[aircraft types treated in Putnam series fashion within thematic
chapters] Photographs and acknowledgments. Designations and markings.
The beginning of Boeing. Furniture, and other people’s
aeroplanes. Original Boeing fighters. Early Navy and commercial
developments. The famous fighter family. New concepts. World War II.
The B-17 Flying Fortress. The B-29. After World War II. Jet bombers.
Jet transports
Appendices:
I: Boeing project drawings. II: Type certificates issued to
commercial Boeing aeroplanes 1927-1964. III: United States civil
registrations. IV: Civil registrations of exported aircraft. V:
Serial numbers of U.S. Army and Air Force aircraft. VI: Serial
numbers of U.S. Navy aircraft. VII: Serial numbers of British
Commonwealth military aircraft
Frontis.:
The Boeing Model 367 jet transport prototype flying over Mt.
Rainier, a 14,000 ft peak near the Seattle factory that has provided
Boeing with a photogenic background for its aeroplanes for over 40
years (Boeing photo).
Notes:
[p.11] … L.E. Bradford who prepared the drawings
[d.j.] Timed for
publication on the 50th anniversary of Boeing …
describes in detail all the aircraft designed and produced by Boeing,
lists every individual Boeing aeroplane …
Reviews:
[Gerald J. Pollinger. Air Pic., Nov. 1966, pp.419,
432] … such excellent records as must have been kept by the
Public Relations department have proved of great service to that
noted Boeing employee and author, Peter Bowers, who performs his own
tour-de-force and tribute to one of the “greats”
with this Putnam volume in the typical format of photo(s), outline
sketch, and description. And what description, for here is not only
“the word” about individual types, but of individual
machines, thus forming not only a reference book but also history in
the making.
[2] 2nd
edition 1968:
pp. [iv] 5-465. 394
photos, 83 g.a. drawings, 5 diags. Index. Yellow and brown photog.
[Boeing 367-80] illus. d.j.
Printers:
William Clowes and Sons Ltd, Beccles
Price:
63s.
SBN:
370 00016 1
Contents:
as 1st ed. Additional chapter: 1965-1967 activity
Appendices:
as 1st ed.
Frontis.:
The Boeing Company celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 15,
1966. To commemorate this occasion in a unique way and emphasize the
great advance made in aircraft design over half a century, the
company built a full-scale flying replica of its first aeroplane, the
B & W of 1916 (Boeing photograph)
Reviews:
[Gerald J. Pollinger. Air Pic., Sep. 1968, p.355]
One of the reasons that more aviation books are being published in
1968 than in previous years is because a number of revised editions
are being issued by publishers. One of these is Bowers’
excellent compilation which was originally issued two years ago. The
prime difference between the two books is that civil registrations
and the military serial numbers in five of the lengthy appendices
have been brought up to date.
[3] 3rd
edition 1989:
[3rd ed.] An imprint of
Conway Maritime Press. pp. [iv] 5-668. 6 illus., 643 photos, 85 g.a.
drawings. Indexes. Blue cloth. Col. painting [wrap-round] d.j.: Dan
Air Boeing 737, by Keith Woodcock
Printers:
William Clowes Ltd, Beccles
Price:
£35
ISBN:
0 85177 804 6
Contents:
as 1st ed., with additional chapters: The jet
transport revolution; Models 367-80, 707 and 720; The military 707;
The C/KC-135 tanker/transport; Small jet transports, Models 727/737;
The Model 747; Models 757 and 767; Miscellaneous aeroplanes 1972-1988
Appendices:
as 1st ed., with additions: VIII, Boeing civil jet
transport aircraft; IX, Boeing jet airliner deliveries 1958-1988
Frontis.:
Airliners 36 years apart: American Airlines flew its refurbished
14-passenger Ford 5-AT Trimotor … to Renton for the rollout of
its first … trimotor Boeing 727-23 …
Notes:
… William M. Lloyd II, who expanded, corrected, and
brought up to date the original registration/serial number
compilations of Appendices III to VII, and to Alwyn T. Lloyd, who
updated the C-135 material and supplied registration numbers and c/ns
originated since the author’s retirement from The Boeing
Company in 1983 after 36½ years.
[d.j.] … To
cover this enormous growth in Boeing activities this book has been
virtually rewritten and greatly expanded. New information has been
included in the pre-jet sections and the Model 707 and 727 sections
have been updated.
[4] 3rd edition
reprinted 1993:
Naval Institute Press. 668pp. 625
photos, 90 g.a. drawings
[not held]
[cat. 1998]
The full development histories of the 737, 747, 757 and 767 are
included and there are full production lists of well over 6,000
Boeing jet liners.
66/2 British
flying boats and amphibians 1909-1952. G.R.Duval
pp. [iv] 5-268. 119 photos, 69 g.a. drawings. Index.
Printers:
William Clowes & Sons Ltd, Beccles
Price:
50s.
Appendices:
A: Lesser-known types. B: Serial numbers and registrations
Copy:
lacks d.j.
Notes:
cf. item 66/3
US ed.: 1966, Aero
Publishers
[p.7] This book has been prepared to
describe all flying-boats and boat-hulled amphibians constructed in
Great Britain during the flying-boat era, and thereby to provide a
complete record ...
Reviews:
[Gerald J. Pollinger. Air Pic., Nov. 1966, p.419] …
All the familiar “names” are accorded the usual Putnam
treatment of text, specification, photograph, and rough
general-arrangement drawing. … 270 pages of history, of
reference, and of nostalgia.
[cat.
1973] Records for the first time in one volume the entire
production of this unique type of aircraft, from the early machines
of the pioneers to the huge Saunders-Roe Princesses. Over 100 flying
boats and their amphibian derivatives are described in great detail,
including design features, construction and operational use,
specifications, lists of serial numbers and civil registrations and
constructor’s numbers where known.
66/3 Aeromarine
origins: The Beginnings of Marine-Aircraft,
Winged Hulls, Air-Cushion and
Air-Lubricated Craft, Planing Boats
and Hydrofoils. H.F. King, MBE, Formerly Editor of
‘Flight International’ and ‘Air-Cushion Vehicles’
pp. [x] 11-93. 49
photos, 11 drawings and diags. Index. Light blue/green photog. [Henri
Fabre hydroplane] illus. d.j.
Printers:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay
Price:
30s.
Frontis.:
1911 Monte Carlo Motor Boat Exhibition, Henri Fabre hydroplane in
centre
Notes:
p.[9] Having long been fascinated by the affinities existing
between air and water, and the craft that move in them, and with
air-cushion vehicles and hydrofoils now heightening my interest, I
thought it worth inquiring into the relationships between the two
elements as influencing marine and aeromarine practice. This book
emerged, and although it deals with what is past, its content is
effectively new, having lain unnoticed or unheeded while men fervidly
strove to mount as an eagle before scudding along as a flying fish.
... As for this book, it deals with nothing later than 1914 ...
cf. item 66/2
66/4 European
transport aircraft since 1910. John Stroud
pp. [iv] v-xiii [xiv]
15-680. 619 photos. Index. Red photog. [Focke Wulf Fw.200] illus.
d.j.
Printers:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay
Price:
105s.
Appendices:
I: Abbreviations. II: European national markings. III: Production and
airline fleets
Frontis.:
Zeppelin LZ.13 Hansa
Notes:
[p.ix] This work records for the first time the technical
features, performance and history of all transport aircraft designed
and built in Europe which have been used on regular scheduled
passenger, cargo or mail services, together with a number of aircraft
which were not regularly used but cannot justifiably be left out. The
aircraft described were the products of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland, the USSR and
Yugoslavia. No other European countries are known to have produced
aircraft of their own design which went into regular commercial
service. The products of the United Kingdom have not been included
... because of space limitations. ... More than 300 basic types
appear in this book ... This work does not set out to trace the
technical development of the transport aeroplane ... each aircraft
has been treated as a separate unit ...
For Russian transport
aircraft cf. 68/2. Cf. also 61/2, 62/4 and 71/9 by Stroud
Reviews:
[Flight Int., 30 March 1967, p.472] … John
Stroud’s massive study …
[David Dorrell. Air
Pic., Dec. 1966, p.461] … this magnificent 680-page
encyclopaedic and accurate account … John Stroud is too
diligent an author to include any information about which he is not
entirely sure. This virtue does however make him rather sparing with
his comments, as distinct from facts, which is a pity.
John Stroud. Has
been familiar with the transport aircraft of Europe for more than 35
years, has travelled in many of them and flown some of them.
us66/1 Fighting
Airmen, By Curt Anders
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1966. 21 x 14cm.
pp. [vi] 7-287. Bibliog., index. Blue cloth, silver titles on spine
and silver wings design on front board. Blue d.j. with white, yellow,
green titles
Printers:
printed in the USA
Price:
d.j.
front: An exciting, action-packed account of the careers
of America’s great flying commanders
d.j.
rear: brief biogs. of the 7 subjects
Notes:
[d.j.] … presents the stirring story of the growth of
American air power by tracing the dynamic careers of seven
imaginative leaders who made vital contributions to our aerial might:
Billy Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, Henry H. “Hap”
Arnold, Claire Chennault, Jimmy Doolittle, George Kenney, and Curtis
LeMay
Curt Anders was
born in Commerce, Texas, and was graduated from the United States
Military Academy at West Point in 1949. He served as an infantry
lieutenant in Korea during the major engagements of 1950-51, but at
times he acted as a forward air controller, and while he was
commanding a rifle company he had frequent occasion to call for air
support. He won the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and the Combat
Infantryman’s Badge and returned to the United States as a
captain.
In 1952, Anders was
assigned to the Infantry School as an editor of The Infantry
School Quarterly, and in 1953 he began a three-year tour as an
instructor in English. While he was teaching at West Point, he earned
a Master’s Degree from Columbia. He is the author of The
Price of Courage, a novel about the Korean War, and Fighting
Generals.
SJ. 18.8.04, edited 13.3.05