My library just grew again 2014...

[NARSES2]

Just flipped through the Churchill book but there's a lovely quote from the great man where he's in a shot with T.E.Lawrence (of Arabia fame). Apparently he thought him somewhat a man who is not in complete harmony with the normal.  Have to remember that one

[Gondor]

Received yesterday from SAM publications their new Scaled Down Modellers Data File number 1 on US Top Guns. Book two in the series, British Phantoms is to follow and I am really looking forward to that particular Book.

Gondor

[Gondor]

Received today from SAM Publications, Book two of their Scaled Down MDF series on the RAF and Royal Navy Phantom's   

Gondor

[jcf]

U.S. Submarines Through 1945, Norman Friedman, NIP 1995

Ed Heinemann: Combat Aircraft Designer, Ed Heinemann & Rosario Rausa, NIP 1988 ed.

[Rheged]

50p in a shop in Leominster,  THE ROYAL AIR FORCE  pictures by Michael Turner, text by Chaz Bowyer, forward by  Raymond Baxter.A selection of artistic impressions of RAF aircraft between 1918 and 1980.

One of the  lesser known aircraft illustrated is the Fairey Hendon.  A twin engine bomber monoplane designed in 1927 to the same requirement as the Heyford but for some reason  not built until 1934. Only 14 were built, but it seems  eminently  Whiffable!!

[zenrat]

I have plans for some of my remaining Heyford bits to become something similar to a Hendon.  Extended wings a prerequisite though.

[PR19_Kit]

  Extended wings a prerequisite though.

Well, yes, and......................? 

[NARSES2]

At SMW Japanese Secret Projects Vol 2

[Steel Penguin]

2 from osprey.
on the seven seas, pirate small units,  after black sails ive a hankering.
and  Steampunk soldiers and weapons  worth a punt, if all it does is raze a smile its worth it 

[NARSES2]

and  Steampunk soldiers and weapons  worth a punt, if all it does is raze a smile its worth it 

That's the one Mike M had 15 people staring at over his shoulder at SMW - great stuff 

[Steel Penguin]

it was that recommendation that made me get it 

[Steel Penguin]

6th doctor source book for the cubicle 7 Dr Who game.  its a compulsive read, and has a few interesting hindsight comments regarding the Time war echoing back to the earlier seasons..
but im now waiting for the 7th

Also read through the 5th  Peter Grant book  Foxglove summer, by Ben AAronovitch,   another riveting page turner.  I cant say much without hitting spoilers, but its another good one in the series.

[kitnut617]

In the Wet by Neville Shute (eBook version on our Kindle).  Needed to read it because of a GB I'm in over on Beyond the Sprues.  It involves an Avro Atlantic but in the book it's called a De Havilland Ceres

[PR19_Kit]

In the Wet by Neville Shute (eBook version on our Kindle).  Needed to read it because of a GB I'm in over on Beyond the Sprues.  It involves an Avro Atlantic but in the book it's called a De Havilland Ceres

Blimey, that takes me back. One of Shute's better books to my mind, hard-over aviation stuff front to back.

[kitnut617]

In the Wet by Neville Shute (eBook version on our Kindle).  Needed to read it because of a GB I'm in over on Beyond the Sprues.  It involves an Avro Atlantic but in the book it's called a De Havilland Ceres

Blimey, that takes me back. One of Shute's better books to my mind, hard-over aviation stuff front to back.

Amazingly how accurate Shute got flying times etc, right, considering the book was published in 1952. For instance, White Waltham (near Windsor) to Edmonton Alberta non-stop, 8 1/2 hours.  You lucky to get it that good these days on modern airliners. Plus the route that gets described, White Waltham, Belfast, Iceland, Greenland, Thunder Bay, Edmonton could be right out of a modern air route, and at 50,000 feet