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AEROSPACE 48 Library Additions BOOKS For further information contact the National Aerospace Library. T +44 (0)1252 701038 or 701060 E [email protected] AIR LAW International Air Carrier Liability: Safety and Security. D Hodgkinson and R Johnston. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. 2019. xv; 384pp. £29.99 [20% discount available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-88962-3. AIR TRANSPORT Taking Flight: the Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918-1938. M Houston Johnson. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 2019. x; 287pp. Illustrated. $45. ISBN 978-1-62349-721-7. AVIATION MEDICINE Aero-Neurosis: Pilots of the First World War and the Psychological Legacies of Combat. M C Wilkins. Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Books, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S Yorkshire S70 2AS, UK. 2019. x; 178pp. Illustrated. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-5267-312-3. Beginning with the pioneering research of Dr H Graeme Anderson – author of Medical and Surgical Aspects of Aviation (London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. 1919) – a history of how the science of aviation psychiatry evolved during the conflicts of WW1, concluding with a compilation of case studies of the effects of the war on the fighter pilots Elliott White Springs, William Lambert, Roy Brown, Ernst Udet, Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock and Georges Guynemer. AVIONICS AND SYSTEMS Aircraft Systems: Instruments, Communications, Navigation and Control. C Binns. John Wiley and Sons, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, UK. 2019. xv; 496pp. Illustrated. £90.95. ISBN 978- 1-119-25954-1. Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II. N Fine. Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE. 2019. Distributed by Casemate, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EW, UK. xvi; 230pp. Illustrated. £20. ISBN 978-1-64012-220-8. FLIGHT SIMULATION A History of Flight Simulation. C R Wood. Published by the author, Sandhills. 2019. Irregular pagination. Illustrated. A detailed company history – illustrated throughout with numerous photographs and other diagrams – of Air Trainers Ltd (ATL) and the key role it played in the evolution of flight simulation and pilot training through the manufacture under licence of the Link Trainer and its numerous variants (in the particular the D4). Later simulators assembled for the Airspeed Ambassador, Vickers Viscount/Vanguard, de Havilland Comet 4B, Avro Vulcan, Hawker Hunter, Supermarine N113 Scimitar and English Electric P1B Lightning are also briefly described, the volume concluding with a history of the Link Celestial Navigation and Bombing Trainer. HISTORICAL Hawker P.1103 and P.1121: Camm’s Last Fighter Projects. P Martell-Mead and B Hygate. Blue Envoy Press. 2015. 65pp. Illustrated. ISBN 978-0-9561951-5-9. Illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, line arrangement diagrams and cutaway views (including a cockpit arrangement diagram), a detailed history of the design evolution of the ultimately to be cancelled Hawker P.1103 and P.1121 interceptor fighter projects (including also the P.1096/P.097/P.1100/ P.1104/P.1107/P.1116/ P.1121/P.1122/P.1129 design studies) and their proposed propulsion and weapon systems (including Red Hebe, Blue Dolphin and Red Beard). Vickers Valiant: the First of the V-Bombers. E B Morgan. Midland Publishing, London. 2002. 127pp. Illustrated. ISBN 1-85780-134-2. A detailed well-illustrated history including cutaway schematic views of the design evolution, flight testing, operations and variants of the V-Force bomber, including the RATOG (Rocket Assisted Take- Off Gear) trials, concluding with individual aircraft histories. BAC X-11 Performance Data: Performance Data for Aircraft Powered by Two CFM-56 Engines. British Aircraft Corporation – Aerodynamics Department, Weybridge. Irregular Pagination. August 1976. Compilation of performance charts for a proposed development of the BAC One-Eleven for both the full 24,000lbf rating available two years after service entry and the initial in-service rating of 22,000/24,000lbf which permitted use of the full rating only for an engine failure. Super VC10: Reprinted from Aircraft Engineering Vol 37(4) April 1965. British Aircraft Corporation, London. 1965. 29pp. Illustrated. A compilation of well- illustrated articles describing the aircraft’s interior design, fuselage passenger/freight transport variants, seating, systems and equipment. PROPULSION Future Propulsion Systems and Energy Sources in Sustainable Aviation. S Farokhi. John Wiley and Sons, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, UK. xxvii; 416pp. 2020. Illustrated. £93.50. ISBN 978- 1-119-41499-5. SERVICE AVIATION Flying Tiger Ace: the Story of Bill Reed, China’s Shining Mark. C Molesworth. Osprey Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing, Kemp House, Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9PH, UK. 2020. 367pp. Illustrated. £25. ISBN 978-14728-4003-5. Incorporating a number of extracts from the subject’s diary and personal correspondence, a biography of an American pilot who during WW2 flew 75 missions in China with the American Volunteer Group (AVG) – the ‘Flying Tigers’ commanded by Major General Claire Lee Chennault – and later with the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW), a provisional unit of the Chinese Air Force (CAF) under operational control of the USAAF’s Fourteenth Air Force. SPACE Resilient Space Systems Design: an Introduction. R Burch. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487- 2742, USA. 2020. Distributed by Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. xi; 180pp. £100. [20% discount available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-14848-5. THERMODYNAMICS Analytical Heat Transfer. J-C Han. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487- 2742, USA. 2019. Distributed by Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. xii; 314pp. £54.99. [20% discount available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-38254-4. TRAINING Engaging the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals. Edited by S K Kearns et al. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. 2020. xix; 302pp. £45 [20% discount available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-25427-8.
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AEROSPACE48
Library AdditionsBOOKS
For further information contact the National Aerospace Library. T +44 (0)1252 701038 or 701060 E [email protected]
AIR LAW
International Air Carrier Liability: Safety and Security. D Hodgkinson and R Johnston. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. 2019. xv; 384pp. £29.99 [20% discount available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-88962-3.
AIR TRANSPORT
Taking Flight: the Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918-1938. M Houston Johnson. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. 2019. x; 287pp. Illustrated. $45. ISBN 978-1-62349-721-7.
AVIATION MEDICINE
Aero-Neurosis: Pilots of the First World War and the Psychological Legacies of Combat. M C Wilkins. Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword Books, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S Yorkshire S70 2AS, UK. 2019. x; 178pp. Illustrated. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-5267-312-3.
Beginning with the pioneering research of Dr H Graeme Anderson – author of Medical and Surgical Aspects of Aviation (London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. 1919) – a history of how the science of aviation psychiatry evolved during the conflicts of WW1, concluding with a compilation of case studies of the effects of the war on the fighter pilots Elliott White Springs, William Lambert, Roy Brown, Ernst Udet, Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock and Georges Guynemer.
AVIONICS AND SYSTEMS
Aircraft Systems: Instruments, Communications, Navigation and Control. C Binns. John Wiley and Sons, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, UK. 2019. xv; 496pp. Illustrated. £90.95. ISBN 978-1-119-25954-1.
Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II. N Fine. Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE. 2019. Distributed by Casemate, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EW, UK. xvi; 230pp. Illustrated. £20. ISBN 978-1-64012-220-8.
FLIGHT SIMULATION
A History of Flight Simulation. C R Wood. Published by the author, Sandhills. 2019. Irregular pagination. Illustrated.
A detailed company history – illustrated throughout with numerous photographs and other diagrams – of Air Trainers Ltd (ATL) and the key role it played in the evolution of flight simulation and pilot training through the manufacture under licence of the Link Trainer and its numerous variants (in the particular the D4). Later simulators assembled for the Airspeed Ambassador, Vickers Viscount/Vanguard, de Havilland Comet 4B, Avro Vulcan, Hawker Hunter, Supermarine N113 Scimitar and English Electric P1B Lightning are also briefly described, the volume concluding with a history of the Link Celestial Navigation and Bombing Trainer.
HISTORICAL
Hawker P.1103 and P.1121: Camm’s Last Fighter Projects. P Martell-Mead and B Hygate. Blue Envoy Press. 2015. 65pp. Illustrated. ISBN 978-0-9561951-5-9.
Illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, line arrangement diagrams and cutaway views (including a cockpit arrangement diagram), a detailed history of the design evolution of the ultimately to be cancelled Hawker P.1103 and P.1121 interceptor fighter projects (including also the P.1096/P.097/P.1100/P.1104/P.1107/P.1116/P.1121/P.1122/P.1129 design studies) and their proposed propulsion and weapon systems (including Red Hebe, Blue Dolphin and Red Beard).
Vickers Valiant: the First of the V-Bombers. E B Morgan. Midland Publishing, London. 2002. 127pp. Illustrated. ISBN 1-85780-134-2.
A detailed well-illustrated history including cutaway schematic views of the design evolution, flight testing, operations and variants of the V-Force bomber, including the RATOG (Rocket Assisted Take-Off Gear) trials, concluding with individual aircraft histories.
BAC X-11 Performance Data: Performance Data for Aircraft Powered by Two CFM-56 Engines. British Aircraft Corporation – Aerodynamics Department, Weybridge. Irregular Pagination. August 1976.
Compilation of performance charts for a proposed development of the BAC One-Eleven for both the full 24,000lbf rating available two years after service entry and the initial in-service rating of 22,000/24,000lbf which permitted use of the full rating only for an engine failure.
Super VC10: Reprinted from Aircraft Engineering Vol 37(4) April 1965. British Aircraft Corporation, London. 1965. 29pp. Illustrated.
A compilation of well-illustrated articles describing the aircraft’s interior design, fuselage passenger/freight transport variants, seating, systems and equipment.
PROPULSION
Future Propulsion Systems and Energy Sources in Sustainable Aviation. S Farokhi. John Wiley and Sons, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, UK. xxvii; 416pp. 2020. Illustrated. £93.50. ISBN 978-1-119-41499-5.
SERVICE AVIATION
Flying Tiger Ace: the Story of Bill Reed, China’s Shining Mark. C Molesworth. Osprey Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing, Kemp House, Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9PH, UK. 2020. 367pp. Illustrated. £25. ISBN 978-14728-4003-5.
Incorporating a number of extracts from the subject’s diary and personal correspondence, a biography of an American pilot who during WW2 flew 75 missions in China with the American Volunteer Group (AVG) – the ‘Flying Tigers’ commanded by Major General Claire Lee Chennault – and later with the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW), a provisional unit of the Chinese Air Force (CAF) under operational control of the USAAF’s Fourteenth Air Force.
SPACE
Resilient Space Systems Design: an Introduction. R Burch. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742, USA. 2020. Distributed by Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. xi; 180pp. £100. [20% discount
available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-14848-5.
THERMODYNAMICS
Analytical Heat Transfer. J-C Han. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742, USA. 2019. Distributed by Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. xii; 314pp. £54.99. [20% discount available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-38254-4.
TRAINING
Engaging the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals. Edited by S K Kearns et al. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, UK. 2020. xix; 302pp. £45 [20% discount available to RAeS members via www.crcpress.com using AKQ07 promotion code]. ISBN 978-0-367-25427-8.
