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My library just grew again 2014...

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#45
April 10, 2014, 10:05:09 AM
From a second hand book shop in Cockermouth , the 'Aeroplane' magazine ICONS  book on the Sunderland. Cover price £7.95, I was charged 49p.  Lots of data about which aircraft served in what squadron and plenty of pictures.  Once I,ve got my house move out of the way, and finances more stable, I can see a Whiffed Sunderland becoming a late 1950's RAF Short Solway......possibly with turbo props and all sorts of other frills and furbelows.  If anyone else fancies having a go at this, please do so.
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Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

Mossie

#46
May 14, 2014, 02:02:20 AM
Haynes Great War Tank Mark IV

The volume is specific to the Mark IV, but I actually thought I was getting a volume covering Mk I- V.  A check on the net shows that the cover that's shown on Amazon was a working title, not the finished version.  I'm quite happy so won't be sending it back, but just a word of warning to anyone thinking it covers an overview of the early marks.
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Captain Canada

#47
May 14, 2014, 04:41:32 AM
Remember ex-member Kurly ? His Brother Lee died tragically last week in a head-on collision. I'm the benefactor of Thrust for Flight, a Pitman book by W Thomson. Looks interesting.

RIP Lee

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lancer

#48
May 19, 2014, 03:50:34 PM
Quote from: Rheged on April 10, 2014, 10:05:09 AM
From a second hand book shop in Cockermouth , the 'Aeroplane' magazine ICONS  book on the Sunderland. Cover price £7.95, I was charged 49p.  Lots of data about which aircraft served in what squadron and plenty of pictures.  Once I,ve got my house move out of the way, and finances more stable, I can see a Whiffed Sunderland becoming a late 1950's RAF Short Solway......possibly with turbo props and all sorts of other frills and furbelows.  If anyone else fancies having a go at this, please do so.

That sounds like a good idea. A turbo Sunderland would be a great SAR aircraft.
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#49
May 19, 2014, 04:26:49 PM
I broke down and purchased a new copy of "ZOO" by James Patterson.
A delightful new spin on ELE (Extinction Level Event) type books.
I now watch my dog closer too.
"Just which planet are you from again"?

NARSES2

#50
May 20, 2014, 08:23:21 AM
Had 30 mins spare today so in Waterstone's browsing and bought this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dads-War-Chris-Tarrant/dp/0753555107

Chris Tarrant's book on his father's war experiences. I suppose it's kind of a "my generation" thing ?
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Mossie

#51
May 23, 2014, 01:38:56 AM
New Vanguard Medium Mark A Whippet by David Fletcher.

Despite the title, covers all the British WWI Medium tanks, Medium B Whippet, Medium C Hornet, Medium D as well as the Studebaker tank.
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.

scooter

#52
May 23, 2014, 04:28:41 AM
New-ish copy of The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfus and Harry Turtledove, to replace the one lost with the former Mrs Scooter, arrived the other day.  A fascinating look into what the United States and the world might have looked like had the American Revolution not happened.
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Mossie

#53
May 27, 2014, 01:41:01 AM
Concorde Conspiracy: The Battle for American Skies 1962-1977 by Graham M. Simons

Impulse buy from a discount bookshop, contains quite a bit on the American SST programme, which is why I got it.  Haven't looked in detail yet, but it mostly focuses on American attempts to scupper Concorde after the demise of their own programme.
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.

rickshaw

#54
May 27, 2014, 04:18:09 AM


Interesting read, not really comparable to Chris Gibson's "Battle Flight" but gives a reasonably good account of the development of Soviet air defences during the Cold War.  Interesting different perspective on a lot of things and reveals how badly the PVO did in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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NARSES2

#55
May 28, 2014, 07:54:04 AM
Got one of the WWI "Special Bookazines" for the train journey. Purely on 1914. Only deals with the British/Empire part in those first 5 months but very good. Not just France but lots on the naval side and the war in Africa, China (Tingsao) and the Pacific Islands. Now other then in some very heavy (literaly) books I've never seen anything on the latter before  :thumbsup:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Thorvic

#56
May 28, 2014, 09:46:22 AM
Off eBay

2nd hand copy of 'British Experimental Jet Aircraft' by Barrie Hygate  ;D
Project Cancelled SIG Secretary, specialising in post war British RN warships, RN and RAF aircraft projects. Also USN and Russian warships

Steel Penguin

#57
June 01, 2014, 11:06:19 AM
2 books from the second hand stall at the NT property Belton house
Bill Yennes   the great warplanes of the 80s
Pitor Butowski and Jay Miller  OKB Mig  ( a history of the design bureau and its aircraft)

and from the wargames show
Vlads army  for 7TV ( giving me the rules for home guard vs vampires, Chinese red guard vs hopping vamps, and some WW2 desert troops vs evils from beneath the sand)
and the rule set Skirmish Sangin and the 1st scenario and addon book for it.
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jcf

#58
June 10, 2014, 06:49:28 PM


Big Gun Monitors by Buxton, revised ed. 2008

$30.00 from Naval Institue Press 'Clear The Decks Sale'.

Vera innerestin'.

rickshaw

#59
June 11, 2014, 06:02:08 AM
How to reduce carbon emissions - Tip #1 - Walk to the Bar for drinks.
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