British Experimental Combat Aircraft of WWII

[Thorvic]

New book due this summer by Tony Buttler

http://www.crecy.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=13&products_id=633

Content according Tony :-



One                              Blackburn B.20 and B.40
Two                              Blackburn B.44
Three                            Blackburn B-48/Y.A.1 'Firecrest'
Four                              Boulton Paul P.92 and P.92/2
Five                              Bristol and Handley Page B.1/39 Bombers
Six                               Bristol Buckingham
Seven                           de Havilland DH.99/DH.101/DH.102 'Super Mosquito'
Eight                             Fairey Spearfish and Strike Fighter
Nine                              Folland Fo.108 and Fo.116
Ten                               Folland Fo.117
Eleven                           Gloster F.5/34
Twelve                           Gloster F.9/37
Thirteen                         Gloster E.28/39, E.5/42 and Rocket
Fourteen                       Handley Page HP.75 Manx
Fifteen                          Hawker Hotspur
Sixteen                         Hawker Tornado
Seventeen                     Hawker P.1005
Eighteen                       Hillson Bi-Mono and 'Slip-Wing' Projects
Nineteen                       Martin-Baker M.B.2
Twenty                          Martin-Baker M.B.3
Twenty-One                   Martin-Baker M.B.5
Twenty-Two                   Miles M.20
Twenty-Three                 Miles M.35, M.39 and M.39B Libellula
Twenty-Four                  Napier-Heston Racer
Twenty-Five                   Saunders-Roe A.37 'Shrimp'
Twenty-Six                    Short S.31
Twenty-Seven                Short S.35 Shetland
Twenty-Eight                 Short S.36 and other Four-Engine Bombers
Twenty-Nine                  Short S.38 Sturgeon Torpedo Bomber
Thirty                            Supermarine B.12/36http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/Themes/Aeroish/images/bbc/quote.gif
Thirty-One                     Supermarine 322 'Dumbo'
Thirty-Two                     Supermarine Spiteful and Seafang
Thirty-Three                   Vickers 432
Thirty-Four                     Vickers Windsor
Thirty-Five                     Westland Welkin
Appendix One                One-Off Modifications to Production Aircraft:
                                    A Photographic Gallery

Some tasty aircraft here. Some of course were never built but their qualification for inclusion comes from having serial numbers allocated. Others like the Gloster F.5/34 get in simply because they were still flying in September 1939.

[Kerrillc]

Thanks Thorvic, now I definitely am treating myself to that for my birthday in July!

[The Wooksta!]

Ditto.  A must have.  Don't care how I get the money, I'll be having that.

[NARSES2]

Cheers for the heads up Geoff

[Gondor]

Want !

Gondor

[Kerrillc]

Finally!! Got hold of it and it's better than I hoped for!! Areal bible for what iffers!!!

[NARSES2]

Ordered mine, should get Tuesday 

[Martin H]

oh well that will be another dent in my overdraft.

[NARSES2]

Ordered mine, should get Tuesday 

Just got an e-mail from Amazon "the item you require is currently out of stock"  They will get others but I might look in my local Waterstones before putting on back order as they have had copies of previous book in the series in stock in the past

[Kerrillc]

I got mine from the Ian Allan shop near Waterloo, must admit I didn't think of Waterstones, I mention the Ian Allan shop because I saw a copy on the shelf. Does that help??

[Dizzyfugu]

Wonder if it is just old stuff just in a new format (there are Midland Press publications from Tony Buttler which just cover almost 100% of the topics mentioned above?) or "really" something new? I am sceptical, since this is the same tactics the publisher used on Soviet aircraft - putting together stock material from various older publications, maybe add one or two things, but actually with little added value when you have the older books at hand.

[The Wooksta!]

Some of it *may* be reused but much of it is likely to be new.  Tony is not one to do a cut and paste shoddy job and to suggest that this book is such a publication is insulting.

[NARSES2]

I got mine from the Ian Allan shop near Waterloo, must admit I didn't think of Waterstones, I mention the Ian Allan shop because I saw a copy on the shelf. Does that help??

Forgot about Ian Allan. I'll pop in when I'm up town on Friday. Thanks

[Madoc]

I just got mine a few days ago from Amazon here in the US.  Nicely done.  I wish there was more detail gone into and that there were more subjects covered but, on the whole, this is well appreciated book that is well executed.  It is not, thankfully, just a "picture" book but does have good write ups and history of the subjects covered.

[lancer]

Thanks from me as well Thorvic, that has just gone on the list for this years purchases....