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Air Safety Group ArchivesOn 18 June the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough was formally presented with the archival papers (correspondence, committee minutes and other papers) of the Air Safety Group (www.airsafetygroup.org).

Founded in 1964 — following the controversy concerning the relative safeties of the two jet turbine fuels Jet A and Jet B — the Air Safety Group is an independent body composed largely of aviation professionals which has, since its inception, lobbied continuously to achieve improvements in air safety and air accident prevention, addressing aspects of air safety concerns receiving insuffi cient attention from the aviation industry and its regulatory authorities.

Over the Air Safety Group’s almost 50-year history, almost every issue affecting the safety of civil air transport has been considered and many acted upon, actions taking the form of correspondence with the authorities (Department of Transport, CAA, EASA, FAA and ICAO), meetings with the CAA, questions in Parliament, letters to the aviation and daily press and correspondence with numerous associations and individuals.

In 2008 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Air Safety Group and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS). Under this MoU, the Group provides, as required, aviation safety advice to the Council, joint Air Safety Group/PACTS meetings being held two or three times a year.

Also included in the archives is a folder of correspondence from Lord Brabazon and others — which predates the formation of the Air Safety Group — which deals exclusively with the relative safety of fuels used in turbine-powered aircraft during the period 1952 to 1963. As this was what led eventually to the formation of the Group, it is felt justifi ed in providing some detail. The issue was publicly pursued mainly by John Rickard AMRAeS, a former de Havilland employee, and Lord Brabazon, Chairman of the Air Registration Board (though acting in a private capacity). Resulting from a business visit to Canada and the US in 1959, Rickard was in a favourable position to question the

use by the then Trans Canada Airlines of JP-4 fuel, widely believed to be less safe than kerosene. The resultant exchange of correspondence is held within this binder.

On 1 February 1961 Lord Brabazon raised the issue in the House of Lords resulting in a Government Working Party being formed to investigate into the relative safeties of the two fuels. The Ministry of Aviation Working Party on Aviation Kerosene and Wide-Cut Gasoline reported in March 1962 (CAP 177) in favour of kerosene as the safer fuel.

The archive includes a wide selection of contemporary articles and opinions expressed by airlines, professional associations, specialist committees, aviation journals, the daily press, aviation authorities, Government departments, members of Parliament and private individuals relating to the fuel controversy.

For any enquiries regarding this material, please contact the librarians at Farnborough (+44 (0)1252 701038/701060; E hublibrary@aerosociety.com)

The Air Safety Group welcomes enquiries from aviation professionals seeking prospective membership of the Group, particularly from those with a background in Air Traffi c Control or Air Traffi c Management. If you are interested in working together with other like-minded individuals in improving air safety, please contact the Air Safety Group via its website or alternatively email secretary@airsafetygroup.org

The RAeS Chief Librarian, Brian Riddle (third from right), with members of the Air Safety Group.

FOUNDED IN 1964 — FOLLOWING THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE RELATIVE SAFETIES OF THE TWO JET TURBINE FUELS JET A AND JET B — THE AIR SAFETY GROUP IS AN INDEPENDENT BODY COMPOSED LARGELY OF AVIATION PROFESSIONALS

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The Society’s Library— Air transport history

The Society’s Library holds an extensive col-lection of material (books, journal articles,

papers, photographs etc.) recording the inter-national development of air transport and air-line operations around the world, past andpresent, including a particularly fine collectionof early airline timetables, route maps andposters from the 1920s-1940s. Among the air-lines represented are as follows:

Aberdeen Airways LtdAero Expresso Italiana (AEI)Aero LloydAeropostaleAir FranceAir UnionAllied Airways (Gandar Dower) LtdAvio Linee Italiane S.A.British Continental Airways LtdChina National Aviation CorporationCompagnie Generale TranssaharienneCompagnie Internationale de Navigation

Aerienne (CIDNA)Dansk Lufttransport A/S/Danske

Luftfartselskab A/SDeutsch-Russische Luftverkehrs-Gesellschaft

(‘Deruluft’)Deutsche LufthansaDeutsche Zeppelin-Reederei GMBHEuropa-UnionEurasia Aviation CorporationFarman Air Lines/Lignes Aeriennes FarmanGerman African Lines (Deutsche Ost-Afrika-

Line)Guernsey Airways LtdIsle of Man Air Services LtdJapan Air Transport Co LtdJunkers-FlugzeugenJersey Airways LtdKoninklijke Luchtvaart Mattschappij (KLM)

Air Lines (Royal Dutch Air Lines)KNILM (Royal Netherlands Indies’ Airways)Misr AirworkPan American Airways SystemsPan American-Grace Airways Inc (Panagra)Patco Airlines (Philipine Aerial Taxi

Company)

Qantas Empire AirwaysPolnische Luftverkehrs AG (‘Aerolot’)Railway Air ServicesRhodesia and Nyasaland Airways Ltd (RANA) SabenaScottish Airways LimitedSocieta Aerea MediterraneaTrans-Europa-UnionUnion AirwaysWestern AirwaysIn particular, the Society’s Library does hold a

wealth of material relating to the aircraft andoperations of Imperial Airways. The materialincludes bound sets of its journals ImperialAirways Weekly News Bulletin 1936 No 27 —1939 No 166 and Imperial Airways Gazette1929 Vol 1 No 10 — 1939 Vol 11, annualreports, timetables, route maps, books andother papers.

In addition many references to the develop-ment of air transport (airlines, routes and theaircraft they operated) can be found recordedin detail in the contemporary aviation journalsof the time such as Flight, Aviation, TheAeroplane, Air, Airways, Air Transport andAirport Engineering and the CommonwealthAir Transport Council Newsletter, the world-wide coverage of its journal holdings being akey strength of the Society’s Library. As gather-ing such material has been a policy of theSociety’s Library since its formation, it hasresulted in probably a unique collection of jour-nals recording aviation and aeronautical devel-opments across the world, the Library holdingextensive bound runs of many important earlypre-1939 journal titles published inCzechoslovakia, France, Germany, Holland,Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Romania, Sweden,Switzerland and many other European andnon-European countries worldwide.

All enquiries regarding this material should beaddressed to: Brian Riddle, Librarian, RoyalAeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place,London W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 76704362. e-mail: brian.riddle@raes.org.uk.

July/August 2005 3 Library Additions

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Ahistorically importantcollection of internal research

reports relating to the post-WW2airliner development and theestablishment of civil helicopteroperations has been presented tothe National Aerospace Library byMr R H Whitby, CEng, FRAeS.

Originally established in 1946by N E Rowe as the HelicopterExperimental Unit of the Researchand Long Term DevelopmentDepartment (later Research andSpecial Development Department)of the newly formed airline BritishEuropean Airways (BEA) - of whichMr Whitby was one of the originalmembers - the RLD/RSD Reportsand Helicopter Notes issuedbetween 1946-1963 (six vols)record BEA’s pioneering work inthe development of civil helicopteroperations.

The collection of internalreports records numerous handlingtrials, evaluations of autopilot andother navigational equipment,night flying, gust research, thedevelopment of air mail operationsand other technical assessmentsof various rotorcraft and otheraircraft types including Agusta Bell47, Bristol 171/173/192, deHavilland DH106, FaireyRotodyne, Sikorsky S-51,Westland-SikorskyS55/Westminster and theirvariants. N E Rowe, R H Whitby, GS Hislop, R N Liptrot, R A C Brieand P A Hearne are among thenotable authors of these reports.

In 1953 - in addition to hisresearch and development work onhelicopters - Mr Whitby wasappointed to manage thePerformance and Analysis sectionof BEA (which had been originallyfounded in 1946 by K G Wilkinson)and the Library has also beenpresented with the BritishEuropean Airways - EngineeringBranch Project and DevelopmentBranch Technical Notes P1 - P690

issued between 1953-1976 (ninevols).

This extensive collection ofinternal reports records handlingtrials, performance, engineinstallations, noise trials andcertification, cost analysis, weightand other technical assessmentsof a wide variety of transportaircraft and their variants includinga number of evaluations of unbuiltproject designs. The ArmstrongWhitworth Argosy/AW670, Avro748/761/771, BAC 1-11, Beagle221, Beechcraft 99A, Boeing727, Breguet 941, Bristol192/200/205, Convair ’GoldenArrow’ 80/Model 440/880, deHavilland Comet3/4/4B/DH121/DH123, deHavilland Canada DHC TwinOtter/Caribou, Fairey Rotodyne,Handley Page HPR8/HP137Jetstream, Hawker SiddeleyTrident/136, Hunting P107,Lockheed L-1011, ScottishAviation Twin Pioneer, ShortPD65, Sikorsky S-55/S-61/S-63,Sud-Aviation SE Caravelle, TupolevTu-114/Tu-154, Vertol 107,Vickers Viscount/Vanguard/V800/V900, Westland 92 throughto early Airbus studies are amongthe aircraft types discussed. Theaccident histories of the DH89Dragon Rapide, Viscount andDouglas DC-3 are also compared(Report P270).

For any enquiries regarding thismaterial, please contact thelibrarians at Farnborough (T +44(0)1252 701038/701060; Ehublibrary@aerosociety.com)

The assistance of Kathryn JCooper, FIH (Assistant ClubSecretary - Royal Air Force Club)and Peter Elliott (Senior Keeper -Department of Research &Information Services - Royal AirForce Museum, Hendon) inarranging to collect this materialon the Library’s behalf is gratefullyacknowledged.

The National Aerospace Library

British European Airways(BEA) Reports

Top: Westland Sikorsky S-51, G-AKCU, of BEA leaving after loading mail atMudford.Middle: Armstrong Whitworth AW650 Argosy Series 222 of BEA.Bottom: de Havilland/Hawker Siddeley DH/HS121 Trident 1C, with a deHavilland Comet, both in BEA markings. RAeS (NAL) photos.

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On 29 March the NationalAerospace Library at

Farnborough accepted delivery ofa large collection of aviation bookswhich had been bequeathed to theLibrary from the estate of the lateEdwin Henry John Pallett, IEng,AMRAeS. The author of a numberof standard textbooks on aircraftinstruments and electricalsystems, Mr Pallett’s libraryrevealed that he held a deepinterest in the historicaldevelopment of airlines andairliners and his collection, asdetailed below, has helped fill anumber of gaps in the NationalAerospace Library’s extensiveholdings relating to thedevelopment of air transportservices around the world:

Modern Civil Aircraft 6 — Boeing757/767/777 (P Birtles); 9 —Boeing 737 (A J Wright); 11 —BAe 146 (M J Hardy). Ian AllanLtd, Shepperton. 1991-1992.112pp; 80pp; 96pp. Illustrated.

Pictorial History of KLM RoyalDutch Airlines. R Allen. Ian AllanLtd, London. 1978. 192pp.Illustrated.

Includes a fleet list arranged byaircraft type of all the aircraftwhich had been operated by KLMup to that time.

The Rise and Fall of Freddie Laker.H Banks. Faber and Faber Limited,London. 1982. 155pp.Chronicles the rise and demise ofLaker Airways and its Skytraincharter service.

Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and theDestruction of Eastern Airlines. ABernstein. Simon and Schuster,New York. 1990. 256pp.

Hatfield Aerodrome: a History. P JBirtles. British Aerospace RegionalAircraft Ltd, Hatfield. 1993.64pp. Illustrated.A well-illustrated history ofaircraft design and production atHatfield from the early years of deHavilland through to the assemblyof the BAe 146.

The History of BOAC 1939-1974.W Bray. The Wessex Press,Camberley. c.1983. 486pp.A detailed history of BritishOverseas Airways Corporation fromits formative parent companies

Imperial Airways Limited andBritish Airways Ltd through to itslast year of operation 1973/74 andits eventual amalgamation withBritish European Airways to formBritish Airways.

Glasgow’s Airport. D Cameron.Holmes McDougall Ltd, Edinburgh.1990. 128pp. Illustrated.A well-illustrated history ofaircraft operations at Renfrew andAbbotsinch, including a chronologyof early Scottish aviation.

Lympne Airport in OldPhotographs. D G Collyer. AlanSutton Publishing Limited, Stroud.1992. 160pp. Illustrated.Over 230 captioned photographsillustrate this pictorial history ofthe Kent airfield.

British Midland Airways. B GCramp. Airline Publications &Sales Ltd, Hounslow. 1979.208pp. Illustrated.A detailed year-by-year account ofthe early history of the Britishindependent airline and its originalformative companiesWolverhampton Aviation andDerby Aviation.

Airport of the Nine Dragons KaiTak Kowloon: a Story of Hong KongAviation. C C Eather. ChingChicPublishers, Surfers Paradise,Australia. 1996. 254pp.Illustrated.Concluding with appendicesrecording pioneer flights in theFar East and aircraft on the HongKong register, this is a detailedhistory of aviation developmentat Kai Tak airport and the roleplayed by Far East Aviation CoLtd, Far East Flying TrainingSchool Ltd, Cathay PacificAirways Ltd and the Swire Groupamong others.

Three Decades a Pilot: the ThirdGeneration. W Emm. SpellmountLtd, Tunbridge Wells. 1990.293pp. Illustrated.Based on the personal log booksof a former pilot, this part-fictionalbiography recalls his flying careerwith the Air Transport Auxiliary(ATA), ‘ATFERO’ (the Atlantic FerryOrganization) and BOAC.

Skygods: the Fall of Pan Am. RGandt. William Morrow andCompany, Inc, New York. 1995.326pp. Illustrated.

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Left: Lockheed Constellation, G-AHEM, Balmoral, of BOAC.Lockheed Martin photo.

The International Air Rally organised by the Cinque Ports Flying Club at Lympne Airport, Hythe, Kent. 29 August 1936. RAeS (NAL) photo.

Dirty Tricks: the Inside Story ofBritish Airways’ Secret Waragainst Richard Branson’s VirginAtlantic. M Gregory. Little, Brownand Company (UK) Limited,London. 1994. 408pp. Illustrated.

World Airline Colours ofYesteryear. R-D Halliday. TheAviation Data Centre Ltd, Feltham.1992. 152pp. Illustrated.Illustrated by colour photographsthroughout of airline liveries, thisvolume provides concise historiesof 100 airlines which operatedduring the 1960s and 1970s.

Age of Heroes: IncredibleAdventures of a Pan Am Pilot andhis Greatest Triumph, Unravellingthe Mystery of Amelia Earhart. HKeyzer-Andre and H Steirman.Hastings House, Mamaroneck, NY.1993. 302pp. Illustrated.The author recalls his long careerwith Pan Am, including hisresearches into Amelia Earhart’slast flight during which shedisappeared over the PacificOcean in 1937.

Classic Civil Aircraft: 5 — HawkerSiddeley Trident. M Kingsley-Jones. Ian Allan Ltd, Shepperton.1993. 144pp. Illustrated.

The Story of the GrummanGulfstreams. F J Knight. TheHenfield Press. 1979. 183pp.Illustrated.Includes individual aircrafthistories.

A History of the Bristol Britannia.D Littlefield. Halsgrove Press,Tiverton. 1992. 159pp.Illustrated.Includes individual aircrafthistories of the Series100/250/300/305/310/320variants.

The Ministry of Transport and CivilAviation: History, Organisation andFunctions. Ministry of Transportand Civil Aviation, London. 1956.100pp.Includes informative summary ofthe early development of civilaviation law and regulations inBritain.

Aviation in Doncaster 1909-1992. G Oakes. Published by theauthor, Doncaster. 1995. 96pp.Illustrated.A detailed history of Doncasterand its airport and its contributionto aviation history from Britain’sfirst air show held in 1909through to the closure of theairfield in 1992.

Leading Edge: the Pioneering

Years of Aviation Insurance. IOrmes. Michael RainbirdPublishing Limited, London. 1988.160pp. Illustrated.Published to commemorate theGolden Jubilee of Hill AviationSyndicate 800. Lloyds 1938-1988, this informative historydescribes the origins of aviationinsurance, the Air RegistrationBoard (ARB) and the InternationalUnion of Aviation Insurers (IUAI).

British Civil Aviation: a Chronologyof ‘Firsts’. E H J Pallett.Unpublished. 133pp.

Sixty Years of Leeds BradfordAirport. A Phillips. The HuttonPress Ltd., Beverley. 1994.130pp. Illustrated.A pictorial history of aviation atYeadon.

Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52: theStory of the Old “Aunty Ju”. PPletschacher. Aviatic Verlag,Planegg. 1990. 151pp.Illustrated.

Ferryman: from Ferry Command toSilver City. G Powell. AirlifePublishing Limited, Shrewsbury.1982. 227pp. Illustrated.The author recalls his aviationcareer from his time he served ascontroller of ‘ATFERO’ (the AtlanticFerry Organization), his command

of RAF Ferry Command (acting asSenior Air Officer to ACM SirFrederick Bowhill) through to hispostwar career with Silver City AirFerries.

Crash Course: the World of AirSafety. M Prince. Grafton Books,London. 1990. 216pp. Illustrated.

It was nice to fly with friends!: theStory of Air Europe. G M Simons.GMS Enterprises, Peterborough.1999. 208pp. Illustrated.

Western Airways: the WestCountry Airline. G M Simons.Redcliffe Press Ltd, Bristol. 1998.40pp. Illustrated.A concise history of Norman Edgar(Western Airways) Ltd — whichwas originally inaugurated on 7September 1933 — and was to betaken over by the StraightCorporation Ltd — concluding withthe airline’s fleet list.

70 Years of Flying 1915-1995:the Story of Britain’s Oldest FlyingClub in Continuous Existence. JSleight. Newcastle upon Tyne AeroClub Ltd, Woolsington. 1995.44pp. Illustrated.A pictorial history of NewcastleAero Club based at Woolsingtonand of some of its leadingpersonalities over the years.

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History of Cambrian Airways: theWelsh airline from 1935-1976. TG Staddon. Airline Publications &Sales Ltd, Hounslow. 1979.111pp. Illustrated.Originally formed as Cambrian AirServices Ltd operating fromCardiff, a concise history of thecompany which was to become thenational airline for Wales throughto its eventual amalgamationwithin British Airways.

Lockheed Constellation: Design,Development and Service Historyof all Civil and MilitaryConstellations, SuperConstellations and Starliners. C KStringfellow and P M Bowers.Motorbooks International, Osceola,WI. 1992. 144pp. Illustrated.Numerous colour and black-and-white photographs illustrate thisdetailed history of theConstellation family and itsnumerous variants, concludingappendices listing civil andmilitary registrations worldwide.

High Risk: the Politics of the Air. AThomson. Sidgwick & JacksonLimited, London. 1990. 590pp.Illustrated.

The author recalls his long aviationcareer detailing in particular hisleadership of British CaledonianAirways, its merger with BritishUnited Airways and its later rivalrywith British Airways.

The Air Registration Board 1937-1972: Some PersonalRecollections. Edited by W Tye.Civil Aviation Authority,Chelthenham. 1987. 136pp.The history of the ARB through tothe amalgamation of theAirworthiness Division into theSafety Services Group of the CAAis recalled through this informationcompilation of articles by variousauthors formerly published in‘Above Board’.

Shoreham Airport Sussex: theStory of Britain’s Oldest LicensedAirfield. T M A Webb and D L Bird.Cirrus Associates (SW), KingtonMagna. 1996. 91pp. Illustrated.A chronologically arranged year-by-year history of one of the oldestUK airfields.

The Tombstone Imperative: theTruth about Air Safety. A Weir.Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, London.1999. 338pp. Illustrated.

Behind the Cockpit Door: theIllustrated Memoirs of an AirlinePilot. A Whitlock. Merlin Books,Braunton. 1991. 318pp.Illustrated.In these informal memoirs,illustrated by a number of theauthor’s detailed cartoons, theauthor recalls his life in aviationand in particular his flying careerwith BKS Aerocharter Limitedflying Dakotas, Vikings, BristolFreighters/Britannias,Ambassadors and eventually theLockheed L-1011 TriStar withBritish Airways.

From Jenny to Jet: PictorialHistories of the World’s GreatAirlines. D C Wigton. BonanzaBooks, New York. 1963. 187pp.Illustrated.A compilation of informativesummary histories of the earlydevelopment of Air France,American Airlines, BraniffInternational Airways, CanadianPacific Airlines (CPA), ContinentalAirlines, Eastern Airlines, El Al IsraelAirline, KLM Royal Dutch Airline,Lufthansa German Airlines,Northwest Orient Airlines, PanAmerican World Airways, Qantas

Empire Airways Ltd, Sabena BelgianWorld Airlines, Swissair, TransCanada Air Lines (TCA), Trans WorldAirlines (TWA) and United Air Lines.

Unfriendly Skies: Revelations of aDeregulated Airline Pilot. Captain‘X’ and R Dodson. Sphere BooksLimited, London. 1990. 236pp.

For any enquiries regarding thismaterial, please contact thelibrarians at Farnborough (T +44(0)1252 701038/701060; Ehublibrary@aerosociety.com).

A large number of books from MrPallett’s Library already held will beamong the 100s of donatedsecondhand/as new aviation booksavailable for purchase from theNational Aerospace Library’s standat the Aerospace and Aviation BookFair to be held on 21 November atthe Society’s headquarters at No.4Hamilton Place, London W1.Proceeds from the sale of thesebooks will be used towards thearchival conservation of the originalJames Goulding aviation artworkheld in the Library’s archives (seeThe Aerospace Professional,February 2011, p 22).

KLM Fokker FVIIa, H-NADK, became G-EBTS, The Spider. RAeS (NAL) photo.

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Evolution of Airfields

The evolution of airfields during the interwar years played amajor role in the national and international development

of aviation. The National Aerospace Library at Farnboroughholds the national collection of the old pre-WW2 Notices toAirmen in which details of numerous airfields (many of whichno longer exist) and the flying restrictions around them arerecorded, the collection being searchable via the website:http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/notams_1921-39_1945-49.pdf

The Library also holds the national collection of the laterAir Pilot/Aeronautical Information Circulars issued up to theyear 2000 — and the national collection of topographical airmaps/charts tracing the evolution of airspace around the UK— as described in The Aerospace Professional March 2010(a pdf of which is included in the visual guide to some of thekey collections held at the National Aerospace Libraryhttp://www.aerosociety.com/About-Us/nal/speccollections)

Complementing these records, maps and plans ofnumerous early airfields during the interwar years wererecorded in The Air Pilot: Great Britain and Ireland (1929 —Second edition; 1937 — Third edition), the AutomobileAssociation Register of Aircraft Landing Grounds (1933)(which was “ … designed to assist the development of flyingin the British Isles by providing a list of temporary landinggrounds at places where permanent aerodromes have not yetbeen established”) and Flying: the Light Aeroplane Weekly1933-1934 Vol 1 – Vol 2 No 4.

Based on these original sources held at the NationalAerospace Library at Farnborough, a detailed listing of over330 separate maps and plans of early airfields aroundBritain has been compiled on the behalf of the Library staffby retired volunteer Mike Stanberry, MRAeS.

The National Aerospace Library’s archives have recentlybeen of particular assistance to English Heritage inresearching the background to the Aerofilms Collection archive(http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk) of over one million aerialphotographs taken between 1919 and 2006, in support ofwhich memories of the work of Aerofilms is actively soughthttp://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/groups/history-aerofilms-ltd

As recorded by Hugh Scanlan in the company historyWinged Shell: Oil Company Aviators 1927-87 (Penzance:Alison Hodge. 1987): “Pioneer airlines strove to take theirplace alongside established travel forms. Yet beforecontinents could be crossed a network of staging posts hadto be set up, and the concept of the air appreciated as atotally new activity calling for a new level of support.” At theforefront of this international development of airfields wasthe Royal Dutch/Shell Group who regularly publicised theirnews of their latest fuelling stops and Mike Stanberry hasalso compiled an equivalent listing of over 130 separateplans of overseas airfields as published in contemporaryissues of Shell Aviation News 1934-1939.

A large number of journal article references to the historyand early development of airports and airfields nationally andinternationally during this period are listed in the U.S. Works

Progress Administration’s Bibliography of Aeronautics. Part37 — Airports (1937).

For any enquiries regarding this material, please contactthe librarians at the National Aerospace Library,Farnborough:

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Top: Plan of Prague (Ruzyne) aerodrome from Shell Aviation News May 1937.Top right: An article in Flying for 16 August 1933 on Leighterton aerodrome.Bottom: Praga E114 Air Baby over the then Prague Kbely airport. The riveroxbow bottom left appearing at right in the chart above. RAeS (NAL) photos.

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The Library’s photographicarchives have been recently

supplemented through thekind donation via MichaelPidcock of some 100s ofphotographs dating fromWW1 through to the early1940s, most of whichoriginated from the collectionof Air Commodore HerbertGeorge Brackley, CBE, DSO,DSC, AFRAeS (1894-1948).

H.G. Brackley (‘Brackles’)after serving in France with theRoyal Naval Air Service andRoyal Air Force during WW1, in1919 was one of the entrants forthe Daily Mail transatlantic

flight contest, the flight attemptin a Handley Page V/1500 beingabandoned following thesuccessful first non-stop flightacross the North Atlantic of 16hours and 27 minutes by SirJohn Alcock (1892-1919) and SirArthur Whitten Brown (1886-1948) in a Vickers Vimy poweredby two modified Rolls-RoyceEagle engines.

During 1920-1921 Brackleyserved as chief pilot to thefledgling Handley PageTransport Ltd and then, in1921, he went to Japan to trainpilots as part of the BritishAviation Mission to the

Imperial Japanese Navy. In1924 Brackley became airsuperintendent of the newly-formed Imperial Airwaysoverseeing the development ofits operations in Europe andthe Empire, personallyundertaking to fly all theaircraft types it operated overthe years and pioneering manyof its distant air routes. HisWW2 duties included servingas Senior Air Staff Officer of No19 Group, Coastal Command,and post-war, in 1947, heorganised the BOACevacuation of nearly 42,000people following the partition

of India and Pakistan. His lastrole was as chief executive ofBritish South AmericanAirways, succeeding Air Vice-Marshal D.E. Bennett but hedied tragically soon after hisappointment in a swimmingaccident at Copacabana Beach.

A much-respected man, aprivately-published posthumousmemoir included contributionsfrom J.W. Booth, C.G. Grey,Major Woods Humphrey, AirChief Marshal Sir FrederickBowhill, Lord Knollys and SirFrederick Handley Page amongothers, his career beingdescribed in detail in Brackles:

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Memoirs of a Pioneer of CivilAviation (Chatham: W. & J.Mackay & Co Ltd. 1952)compiled by his widow, Frida.

The collection reflects allstages of Brackley’s distinguishedcareer and particularly his longassociation with ImperialAirways, and complements theLibrary’s wealth of materialrelating to the aircraft and

operations of the airline. Thematerial includes bound sets ofthe company journals ImperialAirways Weekly News Bulletin1936 No 27–1939 No 166 andImperial Airways Gazette 1929Vol 1 No 10–1939 Vol 11,annual reports, timetables,route maps, posters,photographs, books and otherpapers.

All enquiries regarding the collection should beaddressed to: Brian Riddle, Librarian, Royal AeronauticalSociety, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel: +44(0)20 7670 4362. e-mail: brian.riddle@raes.org.uk.

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K G Wilkinson Papers on Air TransportOn 14 June 2013 the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough was presented by Roger Wilkinson with the papers of his father Dr Kenneth G Wilkinson CBE FRAeS (1917-1990), the Society’s President 1972-73. Beginning his career at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as Senior Scientifi c Offi cer in 1945, in 1946 he joined British European Airways and by 1971 he was the airline’s Chief Engineer and Deputy Chief Executive, being appointed Chairman in 1972. In December 1972 Dr Wilkinson was approached to become Managing Director of Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited of which he was later appointed Vice-Chairman, returning to British Airways in 1976 as Engineering Director becoming Deputy Chairman in 1979.

Dr Wilkinson’s papers — which also refl ect his lifelong interest in gliding — include a number of key lectures/reports recording the development of air transport and the challenges met over the decades as detailed below:

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The Future Fleet Develop-ment in Civil Aviation: Speech presented at the Symposium for the occasion of the 6th lustrum of the Aeronautical Study Association ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, Delft, 18 September 1975. L J van Ameyden. 20pp. Illustrated.

Where is UK Civil Aviation Going?: The Thirty-Second Brancker Memorial Lecture delivered to The Chartered Institute of Transport, 3 February 1975. Extract from The Chartered Institute of Transport Journal Vol 36 (10) May 1975. Lord Boyd-Carpenter. pp 239-243.

The Re-Organisation of BEA 1967-1971 — Case History. B M Brough. 40pp.

Comparison of Alternate Aviation Fuels: Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers International Air Transportation Meeting, Cincin-nati, Ohio, 20-22 May 1980. SAE Paper 800767. E N Cart. 8pp.

Jet Fuels — Now to the 21st Century: Presented to IATA Technical Committee, Chicago, Illinois, 8 October 1980. E N Cart. 11pp.

The Economics of Speed:

an Examination of the Future Roles of Jet and Turbo-Prop Transport Aircraft. Fourteenth Brancker Memorial Lecture presented to the Institute of Transport, 11 February 1957 (Advance proof copy). Lord Douglas of Kirtleside. 57pp. Illustrated.

Includes concise chronol-ogy/timeline of aircraft gas turbine development and the British European Airways (BEA) method of estimating aircraft costs.

The Aircraft Industry — a National Asset. The Opera-tor’s Point of View: The Lord Sempill Paper presented to The Institute of Production Engineers, 16 April 1959 (Advance proof copy). Lord Douglas of Kirtleside. 49pp. Illustrated.

Includes tables recording the growth of sales of the Vickers Viscount, the number of US/British transport aircraft in service by aircraft type (deliveries/orders), postwar aircraft types purchased by BOAC/BEA and BEA’s projected fl eet size/future orders through to 1966, postwar British civil transport aircraft types (fi rst fl ight/de-liveries/orders), the number of people employed in the British

aviation industry and UK total aircraft exports 1946-1958.

The Progress of European Air Transport 1946-1961 — with Particular Refer-ence to BEA: Seventeenth British Commonwealth Lecture presented to the Royal Aero-nautical Society 16 November 1961. Lord Douglas of Kirtleside. 54pp. Illustrated.

Advanced Supersonic Transport: Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers Air Transportation Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, 6-9 May 1975. SAE Paper 750617. R D Fitzsimmons and R L Roensch. 7pp. Illustrated.

Discusses the McDonnell Douglas Advanced Supersonic Transport (AST) design.

AST Propulsion Compari-sons: Presented at the Soci-ety of Automotive Engineers Air Transportation Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, 6-9 May 1975. SAE Paper 750631. R D Fitzsimmons and W T Rowe. 9pp. Illustrated.

The World Airline — and Aerospace Manufacturing — Industry: the Eighth Dr Albert Plesman Memorial Lecture delivered to

Delft University of Technology 19 October 1979. K Hagrup. 64pp. Illustrated.

International Airlines and Public Interests — an Overview: the Brancker Memorial Lecture delivered to The Chartered Institute of Transport 14 February 1977. Extract from The Chartered Institute of Transport Journal Vol 37 (9) March 1977. R M Jackson. pp 251-255.

Partnership for a Future — Airline View: Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers Air Transportation Meeting, Washington, DC, 10-12 May 1977. SAE Paper 770577. P M Johnstone. 7pp.

Some Engineering Aspects of Aviation in the World About Us: The First Sholto Douglas Memorial Lecture presented to The Society of Licenced Aircraft Engineers and Technologists, The Excelsior Hotel, Heathrow Airport, 12 October 1971. P Masefi eld. 29pp. Illustrated.

Reviews the aviation career of William Sholto Doug-las, the evolution of Croydon and Heathrow airports/airline engineering maintenance costs (including engine maintenance costs)/airliner productivity and accelerate/stop distances for various aircraft types over the decades.

A View of Air Freight Developments in the Next Decade: Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers Eighth International Forum for Air Cargo, Royal Aeronautical Society, London, 10-12 May 1976. M L Olason and A D Reynolds. 14pp. Illustrated.

Discusses the Boeing 747F freighter.

Complexity and Progress in Transport Aircraft: The sixth R K Pierson Memo-rial Lecture delivered to the Royal Aeronautical Society — Weybridge Branch. N E Rowe. c.1958. 27pp. Illustrated.

Two-Seat Sailplanes. B S Shenstone. 1952. 38pp.

Typescript of paper that was to be published in Aircraft Engineering, January 1953 pp 2-10.

Why Airlines are Hard to Please: The Thirteenth British Commonwealth Lecture read to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 27 March 1958. Reprinted from Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society

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Opposite top: Dr Kenneth Wilkinson, RAeS President 1972-1973, md Rolls-Royce and former Chairman, BEA.Opposite bottom: Boeing 707-436, G-APFH, of BEA Airtours. Above: McDonnell Douglas DC-AST.Below: Vickers Viscount 802, G-AORD, of BEA.RAeS (NAL).

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May 1958. B S Shenstone. pp 319-336.

“What We Need is a Good Three-Cent Air Line”: Reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post, 20 October 1945. C R Smith. 8pp.

How Decisions are Made: Major Considerations for Aircraft Programs. AIAA 1982 Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics delivered before International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences/American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronau-tics Aircraft Systems and Technology Meeting, Seattle, 24 August 1982. J E Steiner. 37pp. Illustrated.

Discusses the evolution of the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser/B-52/707/720/727/747/ 757/767, Lockheed Electra/Orion, Convair 880, de Havil-land Trident, DC-9, Concorde, Airbus A300 and the JT3/J57/JT8D/ TF39/JT9D engines.

Jet Aviation Develop-ment — One Company’s Perspective: the Last Forty Years and a Brief Look at the Future. Presented at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institu-tion, October 1979. J E Steiner. 28pp. Illustrated.

Discusses the design evolution of the Boeing B-47/B-52/367-80/Dash 80/KC-135/707/720/727/ 737/747/757/767 and the US SST (Supersonic Trans-port) programme, including the evolution of wing planforms and aerofoil sections/wing fl ap systems.

Australian Domestic Air-line Survey: The Sir Geoffrey de Havilland Memorial Lecture, 1979. J M Warner. 26pp Illustrated.

European Air Transport up to the Year 2000: The Lord Douglas of Kirtleside Lecture presented at the Third European Pioneers’ Day, Royal Aeronautical Society, London, 8 May 1978. R Watts. 43pp. Illustrated.

Technical Progress in Aviation: Extract from Regional Studies Vol 5 1971. R H Whitby. pp 117-120. Illustrated.

Precious Resources and Air Transport — an Airline View: Paper presented at the Royal Aeronautical Society Spring Convention ‘A Review of Precious Resources and

their Effect on Air Transport’, London, 15-16 May 1974. R H Whitby. 11pp. Illustrated.

A United Kingdom Airline Operational and Regulatory Viewpoint: Paper presented at the Royal Aeronautical Society Sympo-sium ‘The Impact of Economics on the Design and Operation of Quieter Aircraft’, 23-24 April 1975. R H Whitby. 8pp. Illustrated.

Developing Air Transport: Twenty-Fifth Cayley Memo-rial Lecture presented to the Royal Aeronautical Society — Brough Branch 15 November 1978. R H Whitby. 21pp. Illustrated.

The Horten Tailless Aircraft. RAE Technical Note Aero 1703 — October 1945. K G Wilkinson. 72pp. Illustrated.

A Rationalised Fuel Reserve Policy for Medium Range Airline Operations: Paper presented at the SAE National Aeronautic Meeting, Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, 29 September – 3 October 1953. K G Wilkinson and J Vivian. 22pp. Illustrated.

Progress in Sailplane Design: Reprinted from Jour-nal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, July 1954. K G Wilkin-son. pp 456-469. Illustrated.

The Prospects for Aero Engines: Presented at The Financial Times Aerospace Symposium, London, 16-17 May 1973. K G Wilkinson. 12pp. Illustrated.

Discusses Rolls-Royce collaborative projects.

RB211 — the First Eight-een Months Operating Experience: Sholto Douglas Memorial Lecture presented to The Society of Licenced Aircraft Engineers and

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Technologists, 29 September 1973. K G Wilkinson. 15pp.

The Technology and Eco-nomics of Air Transport in its Next Phase: 64th Wilbur and Orville Wright Memorial Lecture read to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 11 December 1975. Reprinted from Aerospace, February 1976 and The Aeronautical Journal, March 1976. K G Wilkinson. pp 14-25; pp 102-127. Illustrated.

A Solution to Airport Noise: Paper presented at ‘Airports — the Challeng-ing Future: Proceedings of the 5th World Airports Confer-ence on Technological and Economic Change, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 5-7 May 1976. K G Wilkinson. pp 89-95. Illustrated.

The Role of Advancing Technology in the Future of Air Transport: Presented to The Royal Society of Arts 2 March 1977. Extract from The Royal Society of Arts Journal Vol 125 No 5251 June 1977. K G Wilkinson. pp 346-364. Illustrated.

The World Air Transporta-tion System in the Year 2000. K G Wilkinson. May 1980. 10pp.

Trends in the Technology and Economics of Air Transport: Presented at the ‘Trends in Tourism Planning and Development International Conference’, 1-3 September 1982. K G Wilkinson. 12pp.

Energy for Transport: Presented at The Information Technology Society seminar ‘The Next Ten Years’ held at St Paul-de-Vence, France, 19-24 July 1982. K G Wilkinson. 16pp. Illustrated.

An Airline View of LH2 as a Fuel for Commercial Aircraft: Extract from Inter-national Journal of Hydrogen Energy Vol 8 No 10 1983. K G Wilkinson. pp 793-796. Illustrated.

Australia’s Role in Inter-national Aviation: the Ninth Sir Ross and Keith Smith Memorial Lecture delivered to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 10 December 1975. R J Yates. 27pp. Illustrated.