My library just grew again 2017

[PR19_Kit]

Grace Hopper is well known for finding the first bug in a computer. It was a moth that had caused a short circuit!

So is that why they are called bugs ? Or was it just serendipity ?

That's exactly why they're called bugs, yes.

[Hobbes]

The term 'bug' was in use before then. This was Hopper's log entry:

[perttime]

"The term "bug" to describe defects has been a part of engineering jargon since the 1870s and predates electronic computers and computer software"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology

[Spey_Phantom]

just in

-French secret Projects, Vol.2: cold war bombers, patrol & assault aircraft.

[NARSES2]

Hoping to pick that up at Telford

[Spey_Phantom]

Another book arrived today

-British Secret Projects, Vol.5: Brittish Space Shuttle 

[zenrat]

Can anyone recommend a good book about WW1 pilots?
Allan mentions They Fought for the Sky by Quentin Reynolds which was published in 1957.
I'm after something that's a good read and not just dry facts & figures.

Thx.

[NARSES2]

Only book I've got in the library that covers what your after, albeit a little more specialised, is this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Wings-WWI-Downed-Western/dp/1783831952/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510238247&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Downed+wings+of+World+War+1

[Gondor]

Bought while walking around the RAF Museum Cosford today

Red Star Volume 29 Karmov - 27/-32 Family by Yefim Gordon and Dmitrly Komissarov

Gondor

[zenrat]

Thanks Chris.

[Gondor]

Day One of Telford saw the following additions

Modellers Data File 27: Sepecat Jaguar
Modellers Data File 29: Panavia Tornado

Gondor

[Gondor]

Day Two of Telford saw the following additions

Warpaint 93: Messerschmitt Me262
Warpaint 110: Westland Scout & Wasp

A bookazine publication of Hitlers 'Wonder Weapon' Tailless Projects

and I returned home to find an ebay will

Squadron /signal publications Finish Air Force 1939-1945

Gondor

[NARSES2]

One addition at Telford. the RAF Secret Jets of Cold War Britain bookazine. Fantastic value 

[Spey_Phantom]

just arrived from Amazon:

American Secret Projects, vol1: Fighters, Bombers & attack aircraft 1937-1945

[perttime]

I might have to preorder the new book on Messerschmitt Bf 109 G in Finnish service, by Kari Stenman: 'Mersu - Messerschmitt Bf 109 G Suomen ilmavoimissa'.

It is in Finnish only, I think, and it looks like some of the information has been published before in his books on Finnish wartime fighter squadrons. 400 pages, almost 500 photos, 24 colour profiles, 32 3-views.

Publisher's page: http://www.koalakustannus.fi/kirjat/kirja.php?id_prd=233
Sample PDF: http://www.koalakustannus.fi/pdf/Koala_lukunayte_233.pdf

Got it today. First impressions: a big hardcover book with lots and lots of photos. Page size is A4, or a little bigger. In addition to Finnish squadrons, there's some pages on Bf 109 development and also the German Bf 109s that operated from Finland.

The post-war section has only a few photos of the race painted ones. Quality was better than what I've seen online.