71/1 Polish
aircraft 1893-1939. Jerzy B. Cynk
1971. pp. [iv] v-xxii 1-760. 527
photos, 43 g.a. drawings, 27 drawings and diags. Bibliog., index. Red
photog. [P.Z.L. P.6] illus. d.j.
Printers:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press Ltd), Bungay
ISBN: 0
370 00085 4
Price:
£7.50
Contents:
Introduction. Early pioneers pre-1918. Main aircraft
establishments 1918-1939. Individual and amateur aeroplane designs
1918-1939. Gliders and sailplanes 1918-1939
Frontis.:
The pride of Poland’s aircraft industry and its best
service aircraft of 1939, the P.Z.L. P.37 Los, represented here by
the P.37A bis Los A bis demonstration model, flying over the River
Vistula near Warsaw
Notes: [p.xvii]
This book, the outcome of the author’s 25 years of continuous
research into the history of Polish aircraft design and industry, is
the first comprehensive work on the subject ever to be published ...
The author took upon himself the task of clearing the history of the
Polish design endeavour of all detected errors, filling all the
existing gaps and providing future researchers with a reliable and
competent source of information on the subject in a single volume.
[cat. 1973]
Contains the history, detailed structural description and technical
data of every type evolved by Polish designers prior to World War II.
Providing the first complete coverage in any language, it is
illustrated with unique and rare photos and accurate multi-view
drawings.
[cat. 1974-75]
... This book was awarded first prize by the Aéro-Club de
France as the outstanding aeronautical book by a foreign author over
a publishing period of three years.
71/2 Gloster
aircraft since 1917. Derek N. James
pp. [iv] v-ix 1-446. 480 photos, 94
g.a. drawings. Index. Green photog. [Gladiator] illus. d.j.
Printers:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay
Price:
£5.50
ISBN: 0
370 00084 6
Introduction:
Origins and history of the company
Appendices:
A: Gloster projects. B: Wartime expansion. C: Aircraft production
data. D: Aircraft supplied to the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air
Armand to overseas customers. E: Records established and races won by
Gloster aeroplanes 1921-51. F: Test pilots of Gloucestershire
Aircraft Company 1919-1926 and Gloster Aircraft Company Ltd
1926-1961. G: Gloster aeroplanes extant. H: The Gladiators of
Lesjaskog. I: Air attacks on Hucclecote factories. J: Glosters’
royal visitors
Frontis.:
Three Gladiators of No. 87 Squadron, RAF, flew this ‘tied
together’ formation during a display at Villacoublay in 1938
(photo courtesy Rolls Royce)
Notes:
[p.vii] Never a company concerned with living on past
achievements Glosters were apparently reluctant to catalogue the
details for posterity; moreover, few historical references were
retained among the official company documents which wandered to
Baginton, Kingston upon Thames and Manchester following the
progressive closure of the Hucclecote factory, and much which would
have been of interest to students of aviation history has been lost.
Derek N. James. An ex-Gloster
engineering apprentice, was personally involved in many aspects of
the design, production and marketing of the aircraft and other
products of the Hucclecote production lines during his 23 years
association with Gloster Aircraft Company. ... his 30 years in
aviation.
[cat. 1973;
1974-75] Gloster built ultra-light single-seaters,
four-engined transports, torpedo bombers and general purpose aircraft
- as prototypes. It produced Britain’s first jet aircraft, the
E.28/39, and followed its success with the ubiquitous Meteor. New
details are given of construction, development and operational
history. Appendices list production figures, racing successes, record
achievements, and unpublished information on more than 100 projects.
[2] 2nd edition 1987:
An imprint of Conway Maritime Press.
pp. [iv] v-x 1-446. 477 photos, 94 g.a. drawings. Col. wrap-round
painting on d.j. by Dugald Cameron [Gloster Javelin]
Printers:
Oxford University Press
Price:
£18
ISBN: 0
85177 807 0
Contents:
Introduction, appendices, frontis. as in 1st ed.
Notes:
[p.x] The publication of this second edition coincides with the
70th anniversary of the founding of the original
Gloucestershire Aircraft Company. … new information which has
enabled me to amend and correct some earlier errors, rectify some
omissions and update several sections.
[3] reprinted 1990:
Re-issue of 2nd ed.
446pp.
[not held]
[cat. 1998,
website 8.00] This revised edition reveals many new details
about the construction, development and operational history of the
company’s aircraft, and appendices give hitherto unpublished
information on more than 100 Gloster projects.
Quotes 398pp., 383 photos, 47 g.a.
drawings. £35
71/3 Armament
of British aircraft 1909-1939. H.F. King, M.B.E., Formerly Editor
of ‘Flight International’ and ‘Air Cushion
Vehicles’
pp. [vi] vii-xiii 1-457. 403 photos,
36 g.a. drawings. Index. Grey photog. [Hawker Hind] illus.d.j.
Printers:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay
Price:
£5.50
ISBN: 0
370 00057 9
Contents:
arranged alphabetically by aircraft type
Frontis.:
Prototype Hawker Hector: a tribute to the pilots of the Aeroplane
and Armament Experimental Establishment, Martlesham Heath, and to the
art of Flight photographer John Yoxall, who will not be seeing
this book, though he helped to make it. The author was in the
Hector’s rear cockpit when this picture was taken ... (Flight
International)
Notes:
announces a 2nd vol., British aircraft weapons 1909-1939,
never published
[p.x] It is pleasing that a great many of the
pictures in this volume are entirely new. Graphically, then, the
gathering is an exclusive one and textually an inclusive one.
[d.j.] H.F. King has made a
particular study of the subject both during his peacetime service
with Flight, which he edited for several years, and as a
technical intelligence officer in wartime. ... In his foreword the
author summarises conclusions drawn from his researches which
establish important facts relating to Britain’s part in the
development of military aeronautics.
[cat. 1973;
1974-75] This survey of the armament installations on British
aircraft is also a major contribution to the history of the aircraft
themselves, covering over 500 types constructed by 48 manufacturers.
The illustrations alone form a unique record.
71/4 British
racing and record-breaking aircraft. Peter Lewis
pp. [vi] 7-496. 469 photos. Index
Red photog. [Fairey FD.2] illus. d.j.
Printers:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay
Price:
£6.30
ISBN: 0
370 00067 6
Dedication:
To Sheila Scott, O.B.E., in friendship and in appreciation of
achievements which have imbued British sporting flying with renewed
spirit
Contents:
Twentieth-century spectacle. Foundation for adventure. Expansion
unlimited. Across continent and ocean. End of an epoch. Racing
renascence. An exercise in design. Over 1,000 mph. Familiar faces.
Return to record breaking. Technical data. Air race results. Record
flights
Frontis.:
Sheila Scott with the Britannia Trophy awarded to her for 1967,
in recognition of her record flights of 1966 and 1967 and her
promotion of light aircraft flying (Peter Lewis photograph)
Notes: [p.9] ...
continual attention had to be given while writing the book to
achieving adequate balance of content and fair recognition to all
involved over such a long and active era. The opportunity has been
taken, therefore, to record as many as possible of the eligible
significant flights accomplished during the entire period, in the
hope that the result will be of value as a source of reference and of
interest to the greatest possible number of people. In addition to
describing the aircraft involved, the book has been designed to
constitute also a survey of sporting flying in the United Kingdom.
[cat. 1973;
1974-75] The only comprehensive book published on British
racing aircraft. Beginning with the first balloon races in 1906,
successive chapters trace the careers of all types of aircraft,
either specifically designed or adapted for racing or record breaking
up to 1970. Over 400 types of aircraft are mentioned in the
narrative.
71/5 Aircraft
of the Royal Air Force since 1918. Owen Thetford
5th ed.
See:
57/2[5]
71/6 British
naval aircraft since 1912. Owen Thetford
3rd ed.
See:
58/1[3]
71/7 Hawker
aircraft since 1920. Francis K. Mason
2nd ed.
See:
61/1[2]
71/8 The
world’s bombers. H.F. King
Putnam World Aeronautical Library
Bodley Head. Landscape format. pp.
[vi] 7-112. 39 photos (inc. 7 full-page). Bibliog., index. Red col.
photog. [Avro Vulcan] illus. d.j. Red cloth
Printers:
Cox and Wyman Ltd, Fakenham
Price:
£1.50
ISBN:
0 370 01554 1
Copy:
ex Lancashire County Library
Notes:
cf. items 67/2, 94/1
[p.8] Lest it be supposed that by making the present
gathering an exclusive, rather than an inclusive, one the scope is
unduly restricted, it must be noted that the number of types reviewed
in the following pages is a large one, and as most of the aircraft
covered are themselves large, and complicated accordingly, all
available space will be required to do them justice.
Before the war, H.F. King joined
the magazine Flight (which later became Flight
International) and did much flying, especially with the Royal Air
Force. He was privileged to see the production of the Do 17 bomber
and other Dornier aircraft, in Germany shortly before the war. In
1939 he became a war correspondent and in 1940 was commissioned in
the RAF for technical intelligence duties concerning new enemy
aircraft and weapons, including flying bombs and rockets. At the end
of the war he interrogated the principal German aircraft designers
before rejoining Flight. He visited Korea to cover the air
war, and later became Editor of Flight. In 1964 he resigned to
take up writing, and his books include Aeromarine Origins and
The Armament of British Aircraft 1909-1939
71/9
The world’s airliners. John Stroud
Putnam World Aeronautical Library
The Bodley Head. Landscape format. pp. [viii] 9-128. 43 photos
(inc. 7 full-page). Bibliog., index. Blue photog. [Boeing 707 SX-DBA]
illus. d.j. Light blue cloth
Printers:
Cox & Wyman Ltd, Fakenham
Price:
£1.40
ISBN:
0 370 01555 X. £1.40
Notes:
cf. items 61/2, 62/4, 94/2
p.[vii] This book traces the development of the
airliner or transport aeroplane from its pioneer days up to the
present ... With the very large number of aircraft types involved it
has only been possible to describe in any detail the more important
aircraft, but for completeness as many others as possible have been
mentioned where appropriate ... At the end of each chapter there is a
table giving the main particulars of the most important types.
71/10 The
world’s fighters. H.F. King
Putnam World Aeronautical Library
Landscape format. 128pp.
Price:
£1.50
ISBN:
0 370 01553 3
[not held]
71/11 United
States military aircraft since 1908. Gordon Swanborough and Peter
M. Bowers
Revised ed.
See:
63/1[2]
SJ. 19.8.04, edited 14.3.05