My library just grew again 2016

[Gondor]

Received by "special" courier today, and the "special" might mean "special needs" seeing this was supposed to get to me in November....

Hawker P.1103 & P.1121
Camm's Last Fighter Projects

Gondor

[NARSES2]

Call me old fashioned but I still much prefer to look something up in a book and have it to hand as and when whilst investigating back stories and weapons for a build. For some reason I can remember stuff better from a book also.

That's two of us then 

Wonder if it's in the name ?

Chris 

[Rheged]

Call me old fashioned but I still much prefer to look something up in a book and have it to hand as and when whilst investigating back stories and weapons for a build. For some reason I can remember stuff better from a book also.

That's two of us then 

Wonder if it's in the name ?

Chris 

.......and I'm the third.    It's not in the name, it's in the age (I think)   
Michael (63)

[chrisonord]

Call me old fashioned but I still much prefer to look something up in a book and have it to hand as and when whilst investigating back stories and weapons for a build. For some reason I can remember stuff better from a book also.

That's two of us then 

Wonder if it's in the name ?

Chris 

It could be Chris you never know. I have spent more time reading said book than on the internet since getting it too. I want a book on armour now also or soviet/Russian types too. 

[Mossie]

Pegasus, The Heart of the Harrier; The History and Development of the World's First Operational Take-Off and Landing Jet Engine

Excellent book, covers the Pegasus in the Harrier and Dornier Do 31 but also a lot of proposed designs including many of Michel Wibault's concepts, some Boeing designs, AV-16 etc.

And for my other hobby:
Astronomy Photographer of the Year; Collection 2.  Some amazing photographs.

[jcf]

British Civil Aircraft 1919-1972: Vols. 1 - 3 A.J. Jackson, Putnam (corrected printings 1987, 1988).
Former Exmouth ( 1 and 3) and Plymouth (2) library books.


SCTA Bonneville National Speed Trials – 1949–1968: Vol. 1 1949-1958; Vol. 2 1959-1968,
David Fetherstone and Ron Main, Fetherstone Publishing 2016
Collected reprints of the official programs from those years, with additional background material.


Bonneville: A Century of Speed, David Fetherstone and Ron Main, Fetherstone Publishing 2014, expanded 2nd edition.


I got them as a combo deal from here:
http://www.saltcargarage.com

[Gondor]

From the Scottish Nationals in Perth

Airframe & Miniature N04 The Hawker Tempest by Valiant Wings Publishing

Gondor

[Mossie]

BAe 146 - Britain's Best Selling Jet Airliner

One o' them bookazines.  Great head on shot of one of Conair's converted RJ waterbombers on the cover.  Quite a bit on early development and proposed developments.  I'm not usually into civil aircrfat, but the I do like the 146 for it's unusual abilities

[NARSES2]

I find those bookazines very good value and good reads. Always keep my eyes open when I'm in Smiths

[jcf]

Jan Kaplický drawings, Richard Rogers, Ivan Margolius, David Jenkins (ed.), Circa Press 2015
A wonderful collection of concept sketches and rendered drawings by the late Czech architect
Jan Kaplický, he was a master of pen on mylar. Among the designs are multiple views of one from 1980 for
a portable house called Vehicle that most closely resembles the cockpit area to mid-fuselage of the Ju 288
mounted on three legs/landing gear that wouldn't be amiss on a spacecraft.
Second column from the left in this photo, composited into landscape top row, drawing bottom row:


House for a Helicopter Pilot is a classic. 


DE TOMASO, Dr. Daniele Pozzi, Dalton Watson 2015
Combination of car porn colour photography, technical and historical detail photography, drawings and a detailed, well written text that
includes interviews with his wife and various of his collaborators including Tom Tjaarda who was responsible for the shape/look of
the Mangusta, Pantera and others.

[Steel Penguin]

trip to brum today, and despite no stashage addition ( though I did place a request for a couple of kits with my dealer)
Ian Allen  were able to provide me with
tankograd British specials 22, 23,24  being  cold war exercise  spearpoint 80, Conqueror heavy tank, and Saxon
and Project techs   Hawker p1103 & P1121

[Nick]

Having just unpacked the car after my trip round Scotland, it appears I bought rather more books than I realised 

Highlights include, Nigel West's GCHQ, Charles Whiting's study of The West Wall, More What-If? to go with the previous volume, and Buckley's Greece and Crete 1941.

Now if you'll excuse I need to go and fix the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon using my new Haynes Manual! 

[Captain Canada]

Picked up a book on RCN Subs, up to and including the 'new' Victoria class. "the Canadian Submarine Service in Review " and the new book about the Canadair Argus. What a gem that one is ! Loaded with great pics. I bought them both at the RCAF Memorial Museum in Trenton. The money goes to a good cause and as an aside, the retired RCAF gent who was there said to me " Ah, the Argus ! The creature with a thousand eyes " And then he leaned in and whispered " and sixteen assholes " I had never heard that before and we had a good laugh !

[Mossie]

Beyond the Spitfire - The Unseen Designs of R.J. Mitchell by Ralph Pegram
Strike from Beneath the Sea - Story of the Aircraft Carrying Submarine by Terry C. Treadwell
Warplanes of the Future by David Oliver and Mike Ryan

They'll hopefully provide some inspiration for the Naval GB.  I hoped Strike Beneath the Sea would have more on Skyhook as per the cover, but there's a lot of other interesting stuff.  Beyond the Spitfire, R.J. Mitchel is mostly known for the Spitfire but most of his design work was on flying boats.  Warplanes of the Future seems the odd one out, but it includes a lot of the Avpro designs and covers quite a lot of naval aircraft and warships too.

[Steel Penguin]

the june issue of model rail   ( hi Kit,  its got a couple of mentions of you in the ATP review) 
I intend to read the none rail specific bits and thieve anything interesting