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Started by Green Dragon, July 03, 2016, 06:12:31 PM

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Green Dragon

July 03, 2016, 06:12:31 PM
Chris Gibson's On Atlas' Shoulders-RAF Transport Aircraft Projects since 1945 is due out on 31st of October and I think I'll be getting it just for the cover pic of a high-winged, wide-bodied VC-10 transporter! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atlas-Shoulders-Transport-Aircraft-Projects/dp/1902109511/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XB5S9AQGKVB9M8K3A3AM

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Mossie

#1
July 03, 2016, 10:42:23 PM
I'll be avin' that! :thumbsup:  Cheers for the tip off Paul.
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JayBee

#2
July 04, 2016, 12:18:09 AM
That's mine on backorder with Amazon. Thanks for the heads up Paul.  :thumbsup:
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PR19_Kit

#3
July 04, 2016, 01:39:27 AM
Got to be worth getting.  :thumbsup:

I've not seen that VC10 project before, veeeeeery interesting!
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Thorvic

#4
July 04, 2016, 01:43:10 AM
You'll probably find Chris will be signing them at SMW if he's available.
Project Cancelled SIG Secretary, specialising in post war British RN warships, RN and RAF aircraft projects. Also USN and Russian warships

Gondor

#5
July 04, 2016, 12:39:47 PM
Quote from: Thorvic on July 04, 2016, 01:43:10 AM
You'll probably find Chris will be signing them at SMW if he's available.

That sounds like an idea  :thumbsup:

Gondor
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JayBee

#6
July 05, 2016, 05:53:13 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 04, 2016, 01:39:27 AM
Got to be worth getting.  :thumbsup:

I've not seen that VC10 project before, veeeeeery interesting!

There is a three view plan of it in the Putnam book "Vickers Aircraft".
Also the twin and triple fuselaged VC-10s and the double decker one.

Alle kunst ist umsunst wenn ein engel auf das zundloch brunzt!!

Sic biscuitus disintegratum!

Cats are not real. 
They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

Thorvic

#7
November 08, 2016, 04:00:14 PM
On Atlas' Shoulders is ready for the printers.

Transport aircraft receive very little coverage but as the pillars of any modern war-fighting force, they deserve at least some attention. British aviation companies were at the cutting edge of aerospace technologies in the postwar era and these technologies were applied to transports as much as fighter, bomber and maritime patrol aircraft.


On Atlas' Shoulders not only aims to address that but also show how 
transport aircraft and the technology advances that allowed the RAF (OK, RFC) to go from the BE.2c to the A400m in a century are as fascinating as any other military aircraft class. They are the key to a modern war-fighting force. to paraphrase Air Marshal Charles Elworthy, DCAS, there's always something we forget to bring.

Chris









Project Cancelled SIG Secretary, specialising in post war British RN warships, RN and RAF aircraft projects. Also USN and Russian warships

Mossie

#8
November 09, 2016, 07:50:05 AM
I've got to get this one, if only for the Thunderbird 2 prototype in the top corner of page 264! :thumbsup:
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

JayBee

#9
November 09, 2016, 08:21:26 AM
I have had this pre-ordered with Amazon for some time now and it has become rather boring getting the "We are still trying to obtain this product" e-mail, each time the publication date has slipped.
Alle kunst ist umsunst wenn ein engel auf das zundloch brunzt!!

Sic biscuitus disintegratum!

Cats are not real. 
They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

Thorvic

#10
November 09, 2016, 01:55:50 PM
If its ready fro printing then its unlikely to be at SMW this weekend, it might but I would be surprised so will probably make a good Christmas present to yourselves instead  ;D
Project Cancelled SIG Secretary, specialising in post war British RN warships, RN and RAF aircraft projects. Also USN and Russian warships

Captain Canada

#11
November 09, 2016, 03:52:01 PM
Defo looks like a good read. Can't wait to see the projects that will come to life here because of it !

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