My library just grew again 2014...

Started by Rheged, December 31, 2013, 10:18:02 AM

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Thorvic

Just picked up the Warpiant on the Westland Seaking as had meant to get it at SMW but they had sold out before i remembered  :banghead:
Project Cancelled SIG Secretary, specialising in post war British RN warships, RN and RAF aircraft projects. Also USN and Russian warships

Rheged

People may find Tony Buttler's "Postwar British Military Aircraft "  worth a look.ISBN 9781857803297.  It's a book full of  hundreds  of colour pictures ( some of them most unexpected) of UK material from 1945 to 1970.

From white Lancasters via green and white Scimitars to all kinds of Javelins and Buccaneers.
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Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
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Kerrillc

From a day out at Bromley, in Waterstones bought Osprey's RAF Mustang and Thunderbolt Aces, then in WH Smith's an Aeroplane aviation archive special Cold War Jets wth cutaway diagrams and pictures that have rarely been seen and lastly another of the company profiles, this time its Avro's turn. Pictures, diagrams and Andy Hay's profiles.

Choice!!
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NARSES2

Quote from: Kerrillc on March 01, 2014, 05:14:46 PM
Aeroplane aviation archive special Cold War Jets wth cutaway diagrams and pictures that have rarely been seen and lastly another of the company profiles, this time its Avro's turn. Pictures, diagrams and Andy Hay's profiles.

Choice!!

Both very good series, got a few now
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Dizzyfugu

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Just pre-ordered this one, from the pretty good "Planes & Pilots" series:

http://www.amazon.de/Supermarine-Spitfire-I-Planes-Pilots/dp/2352503434/ref=sr_1_3?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1394619162&sr=1-3&keywords=planes+and+pilots

I have many of them - the title is a bit deceiving, as this is a collection of historic aircraft profiles (normally only from the left), covering ony aircraft type, sorted by time of service introduction and /or user countries. Very insprirational stuff, normally well researched, even though the printing colors are rarely indications for real life colors - you have to have references, even though sometimes the official color names are mentioned (e. g. FS oer RAL codes).

The Spitfire is one of the types I have been looking for for a long time, as it has a long service career, and consequently there will be three books about it - much like the Bf 109 or F-4 books of this series, which both have two volumes. The Spitfire trilogy is a novelty!

rickshaw



Interesting book about the development of Airborne tanks in WWII.  Concentrates mainly on British developments, it does touch on US, German, Russian and Japanese ones as well.   Not badly written it contains some interesting interviews with survivors of 6 Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, the only unit to ever fly tanks into battle.  Useful organisational details are included.
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JayBee

To-day got the Aeroplane Special on the TSR-2.
Very nice. Not many photos that I have not seen before, but some very nice illustrations.
Must read it now  :blink:

Jim
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They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

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Gondor

Received today from OOdals via ebay

General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark by Don Logan and recommended by Thorvic.

Only managed to flick through it so far but it looks fantastic! Well worth the just over £40 that I paid for it, great value as it feels as if it weighs 4.0 pounds!

Gondor
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Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

McColm

Picked up a copy of Aeroplane Special, Aviation Archive ' Cold War Jets' from WH Smith Falmouth, Cornwall.. Useful cutways and rarely seen images of the;
Hawker Hunter, F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, E.E. Lightning, Dassault Mirage, F-8 Crusader, Gloster Javelin, F-14 Tomcat, Sea Vixen, Mig-21 Fishbed and Mig-29 Fulcrum.

Gondor

From Nigel Bunker on the forum

Derek Wood's Project Cancelled

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

NARSES2

In W H Smiths this morning and got a couple of Bookazines.

Company Profile series on Bristol Aircraft

Ship's Illustrateds' British Aircraft Carriers of WWII
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Go4fun

Just got and got into "Inside The Soviet Army" by Viktor Suvorov.
Found out that a lot of what we were 'Instructed in' by our fearless Army leaders while stationed in Germany was far off the mark either due to misunderstanding our 'enemy' or maybe just to make us think we had a chance to last over two days max when the Soviet Machine came through the Fulda Gap.
"Just which planet are you from again"?

NARSES2

Read that a few years ago, interesting book
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

TallEng

Just got 'British Aircraft Carriers, design, development and service histories' by David Hobbs  :thumbsup:
It starts with the Admiralty's interest in Aviation 1908 and goes all the way upto the Current Queen Elizabeth in build now, and seems to cover everything Inbetween and even has some gatefold plans of Carriers in the middle, including CV01 (1965), HMS Unicorn, HMS Hermes and several others, Well worth a look.

Regards
Keith
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Gondor

received today from ebay

Secret Projects Flying Wings and Tailless Aircraft

I got it for a saving of 20%  :thumbsup: and there looks to be some very nice aircraft in there to build too

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....