SOCIET Y NEWS
The Society’s Library
— Chris Ashworth Collection
I
n December 2005 the Society’s
Library was presented with a
large quantity of material from the
collection which belonged to the
aviation historian Chris Ashworth.
A particular feature of the
collection is a large number of
typescripts
recording
the
development of a number of
British civil and military aircraft
types (particularly detailed in their
records of individual aircraft
histories and squadron allocations),
air force units/squadrons and
airfield histories. Cataloguing of
the collection is ongoing but some
of the highlights recorded so far
summarised below:
Collection of Aircraft Type Numbers
and Data Lists for Miles Aircraft Ltd
(incorporating Phillips and Powis
Ltd),
de
Havilland
Aircraft
Company Limited, Hawker Aircraft
Ltd. and Short Brothers & Harland
Ltd, P.H.T. Green et al, 1949-1952.
Includes Miles Aircraft ‘U’ numbers
and the type numbers for de
Havilland Aircraft Proprietary
Limited Australia (DHA), de
Havilland Aircraft Canada (DHC),
de Havilland Aircraft Company of
New Zealand (DHNZ) and de
Havilland Technical School (TK1TS1).
Armstrong Whitworth AW660
Argosy. R.C.B. Ashworth. c.1982.
14pp.
Auster T7. R.C.B. Ashworth. c.1985.
20pp.
Auster AOP6. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1980. 52pp.
Auster AOP9. R.C.B. Ashworth.
20pp.
Collection of typescript histories of
various Avro aircraft types. R.C.B.
Ashworth. c.1997-1998.
Includes histories of the Avro 504R,
523 Pike, 534 Baby, 536, 538 ‘Racer’,
543 Baby, 546, 547 Triplane, 549
Aldershot, 554 Antarctic Baby, 555
Bison, 557 Ava, 560, 561/563
Andover, 566/567 Avenger, 562
Avis, 571/572 Buffalo,574/587
(Cierva C.6), 575/611/617 (C.8L), 576
(Cierva C.9), 581 Avian, 582,
586/587, 594 Avian III and IIIA, 616
Avian IVM and V, 618 Ten, 619 Five,
621, 627 Mailplane, 631, 637, 638
Club Cadet, 642, 643 MkII Cadet,
646 Sea Tutor and 671 (Cierva C.30).
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Avro Anson — Summary of
Production December 1951. A.V.
Roe and Company, Manchester.
1951. 5pp.
Avro Athena Mk1 and Mk2 (two
company brochures). A.V. Roe and
Company, Manchester. c.1948.
Avro Athena. R.C.B. Ashworth.
1980. 4pp.
Avro Tudor I and II (two company
brochures). A.V. Roe and Company,
Manchester. c.1946.
Avro Tudor. D.N. Tattersall. 5pp.
Sea Balliol T21. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1976. 7pp.
Bristol F2b in Squadron Service
1918-1932. C. Bowyer. 17pp.
Bristol Brigand Met.3.
Ashworth. c.1986. 2pp.
The Armstrong Siddeley Mambapowered Avro Athena T1, VM125.
R.C.B.
RAeS Library photo.
The Bristol Buckingham. R.C.B.
Ashworth. 10pp.
Hastings Met1. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1984. 6pp.
Cierva C19 (Avro-built).
Ashworth. 1998. 14pp.
Hawker
Sea
Hawk.
Ashworth. c.1983. 99pp.
R.C.B.
The de Havilland DH9A in Service.
R.C.B. Ashworth. 7pp.
Early Naval Vampires.
Ashworth. c.1987. 10pp.
R.C.B.
A History of the Douglas Skyraider
AEW1. British Aviation Research
Group — Naval Aviation Research
Section, Yateley. 1974. 56pp.
Illustrated.
A Short History of the English
Electric Company Limited (Aviation
Branch). R.C.B. Ashworth and H.
Bonney. c.1953. 17pp
Canberra B(1)8. R.C.B. Ashworth.
1979. 13pp.
Canberra U/D10. R.C.B. Ashworth.
1981. 4pp.
Fairey Gannet. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1986. 74pp.
Gloster E1/44. R.C.B. Ashworth.
1984. 2pp.
Javelin FAW9. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1980. 4pp.
Gloster Meteor PR10.
Ashworth. c.1978. 7pp.
R.C.B.
The Long-Nose Meteors. R. Lindsay.
1976. 12pp.
Fairey
Barracuda
III.
R.C.B.
Ashworth. c.1984-1985. 9pp.
Grumman Martlet — Scottish
Aviation World War II Assemblies.
R.C.B. Ashworth. c.1979. 7pp
Records individual aircraft histories
of the numerous Grumman Martlet
I and II which were assembled, test
flown and delivered to the Royal
Air Force and Fleet Arm by Scottish
Aviation Ltd at Prestwick.
Fairey Firefly T7/AS7.
Ashworth. 1981. 23pp.
A&AEE Hastings. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1985. 6pp.
Lightning F1. R.C.B. Ashworth.
1976. 12pp.
Lightning F3. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1985. 22pp.
The Aerospace Professional
R.C.B.
R.C.B.
Jet Provost: Reprinted from Flight,
6 May 1955. Hunting Percival
Aircraft, Luton. 1955. 12pp.
Illustrated.
Includes detailed cutaway diagram
and comparative performance
summaries of the P84 Jet Provost
TMk1 (Measured) and the Jet
Provost Development (Estimated).
Lockheed A-11/SR-71
‘Baffling
Blackbird’.
Ashworth. 1977. 7pp.
—
the
R.C.B.
The Martin 2-0-2 — Model Plans
and Specifications. Martin Aircraft
Company. c.1948.
Miles Martinet. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1980. 28pp.
Pobjoy Airmotors. R.C.B. Ashworth.
3pp.
Reminiscences of Douglas Pobjoy
and Pobjoy Airmotors Ltd. of Mr
George Luff and Mr R. Marshall.
5pp.
Saab-17/-18A/-18B/-21A/-21R/Safir
— Some Technical Data (six items).
Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget
(SAAB Aircraft Co.), Linkoping.
1948.
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Skeeter. R.C.B. Ashworth. c.1979.
13pp.
Saro W14 Skeeter. J. Cullens. 4pp.
Supermarine
Attacker.
Ashworth. c.1978. 22pp.
R.C.B.
Supermarine
Swift.
Ashworth. c.1987. 25pp.
R.C.B.
Westland Whirlwind Helicopter.
R.C.B. Ashworth. c.1980. 87pp.
Westland Whirlwind and the RAF.
R.C.B. Ashworth. 41pp.
Whirlwind
HAR21.
Ashworth. c.1987. 5pp.
R.C.B.
Whirlwind HAS22. R.C.B. Ashworth.
c.1987. 7pp.
Berlin Airlift. R.C.B. Ashworth. 8pp.
Includes detailed chronology of the
airlift, tonnages carried, civilian
contractors and accident summary.
History of Croydon Airport. W.
Nicol. c.1980. 12pp.
Avro Tudor 4, G-A
AHNN, Star Leopard,, of BSAA. RAeS Library photo.
(A&AEE) at Martlesham Heath
between 1928 and 1934.
No33 Squadron. R. Lindsay. 1977.
4pp.
The History of the Rotol Flight Test
Department 1939-1947. R.C.B.
Ashworth. 8pp.
Includes details of Spitfires and
other aircraft types used by Rotol.
The History of 42 Squadron.
Anonymous. c.1962. 29pp.
Culdrose Crash Log 9.9.1947 to
15.1.1971. G. Wakeham. 11pp.
Ireland Takes Wing — the Aer
Lingus Story. R.C.B. Ashworth.
1975. 3pp.
Hucknall Flying Testbeds. R.C.B.
Ashworth. 7pp.
Records individual aircraft histories.
The Story of RAF Bolt Head. L.
Hunt. 1966. 3pp.
Martlesham Heath Aircraft: Early
1930s — Featuring the Hawker
Hart. G. Kinsey and R. Harrison.
Martlesham
Heath
Aviation
Historic Society, Martlesham Heath.
c.1982. 21pp. Illustrated.
Records details of over 50 aircraft
which underwent flight testing trials
at the Aeroplane and Armament
Experimental
Establishment
History of Royal Air Force
Gravesend. Air Historical Branch.
1961. 5pp.
The Story of RAF Harrowbeer. L.
Hunt. 1966. 4pp.
History of RAF Hawkinge.
Humphreys. c.1980. 34pp.
R.
History of RAF Base Malta. R.C.B.
Ashworth. 15pp.
History of No2 Squadron Royal
Australian Air Force 1916-1952. Royal
Australian Air Force — Historical
Section. The Speciality Press
Limited, Melbourne. c.1953. 24pp.
27 Squadron — The Flying
Elephants. C. Bowyer. Caldicotts
Ltd, Gainsborough. c.1966. 12pp.
Illustrated.
Martin 2-0
0-2
2, YV-C
C-A
AMB, of Linea
Aeropostal Venezolana (LAV),
leaving the Glenn L. Martin plant at
Baltimore. RAeS Library photo.
Notes on Servicing Echelon
Operating with No.42 Squadron.
M.AeOp Barratt. 24pp.
No201 Squadron Royal Air Force:
the History of a Famous Naval and
Coastal
Command
Unit.
Anonymous. 1960. 16pp.
History of No210 Squadron.
Anonymous. c.1960. 46pp.
Includes appendices recording
squadron locations, aircraft types
operated, submarines sunk by the
squadron and casualties of both
WW1 and WW2.
A History of 226 OCU (Operational
Conversion Unit). R. Lindsay. 1977.
8pp.
A
History
of
No236
OCU
(Operational Conversion Unit).
R.C.B. Ashworth. 2pp.
The History of No220 Squadron
Royal Air Force. Anonymous. 1957.
17pp.
The North East’s Auxiliaries. R.
Lindsay. 1976. 8pp.
Concise history of 606, 607 and 608
Squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary
Air Force.
A Short History of No234 Squadron
Royal Air Force 1917-1955. R.A.
Brown. 1956. 31pp.
Grahame-White — Pioneer Airman
and Supreme Showman. R.C.B.
Ashworth. 28pp.
No242 Squadron Royal Air Force:
Squadron History and Notes. A.E.M.
Barton. 1962. 24pp.
The
Harvard-Boston
Aviation
Meeting at Atlantic, Massachusetts,
3-13 September 1910. R.C.B.
Ashworth. 4pp.
No208 AFS (Advanced Flying
School)/9 FTS. R.C.B. Ashworth.
9pp.
No209 AFS (Advanced Flying
School)/12 FTS. R.C.B. Ashworth.
9pp.
All enquiries regarding the
collection should be addressed
to: Brian Riddle, Librarian, Royal
Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton
Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK. Tel:
+44 (0)20 7670 4362. e-mail:
[email protected]
Library
M
embers are advised that the Society’s Librarian,
Brian Riddle, will be away on leave from 7-14
August inclusive. Members will be able to use the
Library Reading Room for reference purposes during
this period.
AUGUST 2006
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NATIONAL AEROSPACE LIBRARY
On 14 November 2013 two heavy, large, rusting, old,
metal shipping trunks were delivered to the National
Aerospace Library at Farnborough by John Kime.
These contained the archives of his grandfather,
George William Saynor AFRAeS (1890-1970).
Formerly of the Royal Air Force and the
Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co Ltd, in 1928
George Saynor travelled to Canada and, after a
brief period at Canadian Vickers, designed with
Robert Norman Bell AFRAeS a single-seater
high-wing parasol monoplane — the Saynor & Bell
Canadian Cub (40hp ABC Motors Limited Scorpion
II) CF-APS [span 25ft; overall length 18ft; overall
height 6ft 1½ inches] — which was first flown on
4 December 1930 at St Hubert Airport, located in
the borough of Longueuil, Quebec. Unusually, the
aircraft’s rounded plywood monocoque fuselage and
wings had been assembled by the designers in the
basement of a house in the Maisonneuve district of
Montreal.
The British weekly journal Flight on 1 May 1931
noted, in a praiseworthy review of the aircraft: “Its
performance is remarkably good, having proved to
be well behaved in the air, free from vices, and has
performed all the usual aerobatic feats,” however,
the aircraft ultimately proved to be under-powered
and only one example was ever built, the project
being abandoned during the subsequent Great
Depression era.
The metal trunks — one of which still bore the
White Star Line Third Class luggage label of the
ocean liner RMS Baltic destined for Montreal of
November 1928 — when opened were found to
be crammed full of documentation and paperwork
relating to Mr Saynor’s aviation career and aircraft
designs.
In addition to a number of original c.late-1920smid-1930s British and North American aircraft
manufacturers’ brochures/manuals (including
a number of aero-engine brochures), aviation
parts catalogues, old aircraft design textbooks,
technical reports and aviation journals — effectively
a fascinating ‘time capsule’ of aeronautical
development at the time which will be of great
interest to current and future generations of aviation
historians — there were a large number of technical
blueprint drawings, rolls of oversize drawings and
various notebooks of calculations.
The librarians would like to acknowledge the
assistance of Ms Lindy Webster and Mr Kime in
arranging for this material to be presented to the
National Aerospace Library.
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Christine Woodward
George Saynor
Archive
For enquiries regarding this material — the
cataloguing of which is ongoing — please contact
the librarians at Farnborough:
T +44 (0)1252 701038/701060;
E [email protected]
Top left: The Saynor & Bell
Canadian Cub.
Middle left: George Saynor.
Bottom left: Brian Riddle,
RAeS Chief Librarian, looks
through one of the two trunks.
Society News
The National Aerospace Library
n 17 November 2011 the
National Aerospace Library at
Farnborough accepted delivery
from Australia of a large box which
contained an album compilation of
photographs, letters, signed
menus, newspaper cuttings,
technical articles and reports
reviewing the long aviation career
of John Edwin Petitt Herriot,
FRAeS.
Entitled Highlights of 50 Years
in Aviation 1916-1966, the album
records a significant period in the
development of British aviation as
it records Mr Herriot’s career from
his time as Ground Engineer at
William Beardmore and Co Ltd at
Renfrew and his later involvement
with the 1929 and 1931
Schneider Trophy contests as an
inspector of the Aeronautical
Inspection Directorate (AID)
attached to the Experimental and
Research Department of RollsRoyce responsible to the Air
Ministry for testing and inspection
of the Schneider Trophy engines. A
founder member of the Gas
Turbine Collaboration Committee,
of particular interest to aviation
historians are the records of Mr
Herriot’s work alongside Frank
Whittle and Stanley Hooker and
the Power Jets Limited
development of the pioneering
aircraft jet engines, the 19451946 world air speed record
flights of the Gloster Meteor (using
the Rolls-Royce Derwent engine)
and his postwar career as General
Manager of Rolls-Royce Light
Aircraft Engine Department being
particularly involved with the
development of the Clyde propeller
turbine.
Also presented to the Library is
Mr Herriot’s copy of Sir Frank
Whittle’s autobiography Jet: the
Story of a Pioneer (London:
Frederick Muller. 1953) signed by
Whittle and a number of the
original Power Jets team and a
mounted statuette presented to
O
Mr Herriot on his retirement from
Rolls-Royce in 1966.
The material was presented to
the National Aerospace Library by
Mr Herriot’s son-in-law, Andrew
Brentnall, and the librarians would
also like to record their thanks to
Wg Cdr Richard Bluck, RAAFAR,
and Keith Mans, FRAeS, for their
assistance with this donation.
The donation of Mr Herriot’s
records complement’s the National
Aerospace Library’s extensive
collection of material recording the
development of aircraft engines
and aero gas turbines over the
years (books, papers, journal
articles, photographs etc.). The
Library holds a collection of
original copies of Whittle’s
provisional patent specifications
(No 347,206 Improvements
relating to the propulsion of
aircraft & other vehicles. No
347,766 Improvements relating
to centrifugal compressors &
pumps. No 375,104
Improvements relating to the
supercharging of aircraft internal
combustion engines etc.), Whittle’s
early technical paper ‘The TurboCompressor and the
Supercharging of Aero Engines’
being published in the Journal of
the Royal Aeronautical Society
November 1931.
For any enquiries regarding this
material, please contact the
librarians at Farnborough (T +44
(0)1252 701038/701060;
E [email protected]).
As a memorial to Sir Frank
Whittle and the key role that the
Royal Aircraft Establishment at
Farnborough undertook in flighttesting the early Whittle jet
engines in the Gloster E28/39 and
later aircraft types and the
involvement of RAE Pyestock,
there is close to the National
Aerospace Library a full-scale
model of the Gloster E28/39 on
the Ively Roundabout at the
perimeter of Farnborough Airport.
RAeS (NAL) photos.
J E P Herriot Album
Top: The Pilots of the 1931 RAF High Speed Flight with the signatures of the
designers of the Supermarine S6B aircraft (R J Mitchell) and Rolls-Royce R
engine (A J Rowledge). From left to right: Flt Lt E J Linton Hope, Lt G L
Brinton RN, Flt Lt F W Long, Flt Lt G H Stainforth, Sqn Ldr A H Orlebar, Flt Lt
J N Boothman, FO L S Snaith and Flt Lt Dry (engineer).
Middle left: J E P Herriot beside the Supermarine S6B S1595, 1931.
Middle right: Dr Stanley G Hooker, J E P Herriot and Air Cdre Frank Whittle.
Above: Gloster–Rolls-Royce World Speed Record Luncheon, Claridges, London,
31 October 1946. Clockwise from left: Eric Greenwood, Chief Test Pilot, Gloster;
T O M Sopwith, Chairman, Hawker Siddeley; Teddy Donaldson RAF; Eric Smith,
Chairman, Rolls-Royce; Bill Waterton RAF; Neville Duke RAF; Hugh Burroughes,
Director, Gloster; A G Elliott, Director and Chief Engineer, Rolls-Royce; R V
Atkinson, Director, Gloster; Bill Lappin, Rolls-Royce; P G Crabbe, Gloster; J E P
Herriot, Rolls-Royce and Frank Spriggs, Director, Hawker Siddeley.
January 2012
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NATIONAL AEROSPACE LIBRARY
RAE/QinetiQ
Collection
The National Aerospace Library at Farnborough
has been presented with a historically important
collection of early aeronautical books not previously
held which formerly belonged to the Royal Aircraft
Establishment (RAE) and had been presented by
QinetiQ to Hampshire Libraries in March 2003.
The variety of bookstamps on the older
volumes reveal their origins as being originally
held in the libraries of the Air Ministry, ARC, Royal
Aircraft Factory and the Reichsluftfahrtministerium,
Berliner Verein fur Luftschiffahrt and the
Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Herman Goring (LFA)
aeronautical research establishment in Germany, as
well as from the personal library of Capt Hermann
W L Moedebeck, editor of the German technical
journal Illustrierte des Oberrheinischen Vereins fur
Luftschiffahrt first published in 1897 and which
from 1898 was entitled Illustrierte Aeronautishe
Mitteilungen.
Cataloguing of the collection is ongoing, some
of the ‘highlights’ recorded so far being as follows:
Results of Air Raids on
Germany: carried out by
the 8th Brigade and the
Independent Force, RAF
— Third edition. Air Ministry,
London. January 1920. 131pp.
Illustrated.
A detailed chronology of
bombing raids undertaken over
Germany during the final year
of WW1 arranged
alphabetically town-by-town
and illustrated by photographs
and maps, followed by a
detailed statistical analysis of
the number of aircraft
deployed, raids undertaken and
weight of bombs dropped.
Applied Aeronautics: the
Airplane. Airplane Engineering
Department, McCook Field,
Dayton, OH. 1918. 121pp.
Illustrated.
After a concise review of
aircraft aerodynamics, there is
a discussion of aircraft
construction, rigging,
alignment, maintenance,
instruments and nomenclature.
Souvenir of the Australian
and Malayan Battle Planes
1914-1918: Souvenir of
Ninety-Four Gift BattlePlanes which Helped Us to
Victory August 4 1914 to
November 11 1918.
C Alma Baker. The Field
Press, London. c.1920. 148pp.
Illustrated.
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Includes an essay by
Boyd Cable (Lieut-Col E A
Ewart) on ‘The Presentation
Planes: Their Use and Value’.
Das Flugzeug und sein
Aufbau: Praxis des
Flugzeugbaues. I K Anacker.
Richard Carl Schmidt &
Co, Berlin. 1918. 174pp.
Illustrated.
Ragguaglio del Viaggio
Aereo: Eseguito in Roma
dal signor Francesco
Arban il giorno di Martedi
14 Aprile 1846. 8pp.
Le Congres d’Aérostation
scientifique de 1904 (29
aout - 3 septembre).
P Bordé and W de Fonvielle.
Academie Imperiale des
Sciences de SaintPetersbourg, Paris. 1905.
84pp. Illustrated.
Saggio Sopra la Teoria
Pratica delle Macchine
Aerostatiche. CFZ Le
Stampe di Ulisse Ramponi,
Bologna. 1800. 14pp.
An early review of aerial
navigation by Francesco
Zambeccari.
Premiers Voyages Aériens:
a Lyon en 1784. R De
Cazenove. Imprimerie Pitrat
Ainé, Lyon. 1887. 63pp.
Illustrated.
Right: From Spare Parts for
Aeroplane Engines — Type
RAF 1A (Royal Aircraft
Factory, Farnborough. 1916).
RAeS (NAL).
Chauviere), projectiles and
radiators.
L’Hydroavion. R Desmons.
Librarie Aéronautique, Paris.
c.1921. 176pp. Illustrated.
Les Aerostats dans leur
Utilisation Militaire.
M Dibos. Librarie Militaire de L
Baudoin, Paris. 1893. 31pp.
Discusses the military use
of balloons and airships.
Recherches sur la
Navigation Aérienne: essai
de Comparison entre les
Principaux Systemes. A
Duroy de Bruignac. J Baudry,
Editeur, Paris. 1875. 45pp.
Nouvelles Recherches sur
la Resistance de l’Air et
l’Aviation, faites au
Laboratoire d’Auteuil.
Volume I — Texte. G Eiffel.
H Dunod et E Pinat Editeurs,
Paris. 1914. 406pp. Illustrated.
Reviews aerodynamic
research undertaken on the
design of aircraft, airships,
airship hangars and propellers.
Copy inscribed by Gustave
Eiffel to the National Physical
Laboratory.
Résumé des Principaux
Travaux Exécutés Pendant
la Guerre au Laboratoire
Aérodynamique Eiffel
1915-1918. G Eiffel. Librarie
Aéronautique, Paris. c.1919.
217pp. Illustrated.
Detailed technical
summary of aerodynamic
research undertaken during
WW1 on the design of aircraft
aerofoils, airships, propellers
(Ratmanoff, Dorand,
Les Ballons: et Leur
Emploi a la Geurre.
G Espitallier. G Masson,
Editeur, Paris. c.1886. 93pp.
Illustrated.
Discusses the military
applications of balloons and
airships (including the designs
of Renard and Krebs) and the
problems of transport, ground
handling and gas inflation.
De l’Aérostation Militaire.
W de Fonvielle. Auguste Ghio,
Editeur, Paris. 1876. 16pp.
Monoplane: und
praktische Erfahrungen im
Bau von Flugmaschinen
nebst Beshcreibung der
wichtigsten Flugmotoren.
F Hansen. C J E Volckmann
Nachfolger (E Wette), Rostock.
1910. 35pp + 3 pull-out
diagrams. Illustrated.
Includes concise
descriptions of Anzani, Escher,
Gnome and other aircraft
engines.
Rotor ein deutscher
Rotations-Flugmotor.
F Hansen. C J E Volckmann
Nachf GmbH, Berlin. 1912.
21pp. Illustrated.
General description of
rotary aircraft engines.
Ballon-und Flugmotoren:
Ihre technische Entwicklung und gegenwartige
Gestaltung. A Haenig. C J E
Volckmann Nachfolger
(E Wette), Rostock. 1910.
196pp. Illustrated.
Includes summary
descriptions/data/
photographs/line diagrams of
a number of German, French
and other early aero engines
designs including Mercedes,
Argus, Daimler, NAG, Adler,
Korting, Escher, Durkopp,
Bucherer, Farcot, ENV, Robert
Esnault-Pelterie (REP), Pipe
and Green among others.
The Triplane and the
Stable Biplane. J. C.
Hunsaker. James Selwyn and
Co, Ltd, London. 1918. 36pp.
Illustrated.
Aeronautical Engines: a
critical survey of current
practice with special
reference to the balancing
of inertia forces. F J Kean.
E & F N Spon, Limited, London.
1916. 98pp + 5 pull-out
diagrams. Illustrated.
Discusses the Beardmore,
Wolseley, Salmson, Anazani
and Gnome engines.
Modern Developments of
Aeroplane Theory: Read
before the Junior
Institution of Engineers, 23
April 1913. A R Low.
pp 461-496. Illustrated.
Aerial Flight: the ‘James
Forrest’ Lecture delivered
at the Institution of Civil
Engineers Session 19111912. H R A Mallock. 36pp.
Illustrated.
Le Navire Aérien
(Architecture, Equilibre,
Stabilité): Lecons faites en
1908-1909 a la Faculte des
Sciences de l’Université de
Bordeux. L Marchis. H Dunod
et E Pinat, Editeurs, Paris.
1909. 990pp. Illustrated.
A detailed technical study
of aerodynamics and aircraft
stability and control, illustrated
throughout with line diagrams
of pioneering aircraft and
airship designs (including
the ‘La France’ airship and
sectional views of the flying
controls of the Wright A
and Blériot IX). Appendices
include studies of the Italian
Crocco military airship and
his pioneering wind tunnel
design, a technical comparison
of aircraft which competed at
the 1909 ‘La Grande Semaine
d’Aviation de la Champagne’
international aviation meeting
held at Bétheny five miles
north of Reims and detailed
day-by-day chronologies of the
flights of the Ville-de-Paris I/
II, Clement-Bayard, Parseval,
Zeppelin, Ville-de-Nancy and
Gross I/II airships and balloons
and of the Antoinette, Blériot,
Voisin and Wright A aircraft.
Les Moteurs d’Aviation —
Seventh edition. C MartinotLagarde. Librarie Militaire
Berger-Lavrault, Paris. 1918.
256pp. Illustrated.
Includes pull-out line
diagrams of Le Rhone
seven-cylinder and Salmson
aero engines.
Les Moteurs d’Aviation
Allemands. A Masméjean
and M Masmejean. Augustin
Challamel, Editeur, Paris. 1918.
63pp. Illustrated.
Discusses with the aid of
a number of sectional views
and pull-out diagrams the
Mercedes 110hp/160hp/
260hp, Benz 135hp/225hp,
Opel and Maybach German
aircraft and airship engines.
Der freiballon in Theorie
und Praxis. Vol 1. Edited by
A Mehl. Franckh’iche
Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart.
c.1910. 258pp. Illustrated.
Various authors discuss
the effect of aerodynamics,
weather on balloons, gas
inflation, piloting, the GordonBennett contests and the uses
of balloons in aerial
photography among other
subjects.
Mervyn O’Gorman —
Aeronautical Notes from
‘The Times’ 1913-1916 (2
volumes).
Two scrapbooks of leading articles reviewing developments in aeronautics which
were compiled by ‘Pegasus’
and ‘Ornis’.
Lettera di Monsignor
D Francesco Pentini a
SE il signor principe D
Marco Antonio Borghese
sulla Direzione delli Globi
Aerostatici: sulla teoria
dell’atmosfera e sue
correnti non che sulla
causa produttiva la
direzione dell’aco
magnetico in linea
parallela alli poli. Nella
Tipografia della Rev Cam
Apost dai Salviucci, Rome.
1847. 15pp. Illustrated.
Descrizione della Machina
Aerostatica di Luigi Piana.
c.1826. 2pp. Illustrated.
Describes and illustrates the
‘Globo’ balloon design.
Recherches sur le Mouvement des Projectiles dans
l’Air: en avant égard a leur
figure et leur rotation et a
l’influence du mouvement
diurne de la terre. S-D
Poisson. Bachelier, ImprimeurLibrarie, Paris. 1839. 227pp.
A pioneering early technical study of ballistics by the
French mathematician Siméon
Denis Poisson which discusses
the work of Sir Isaac Newton
and Benjamin Robins.
La Théorie de Prandtl. M
Roy. Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars
et Cie, Paris. 1922. 131pp.
Illustrated.
Spare Parts for Aeroplane
Engines — Type RAF
1A: with description and
Instructions for Running
and Repair — Second edition.
Royal Aircraft Factory,
Farnborough. 1916. 67pp.
Illustrated.
Includes various line
arrangement diagrams and
a number of other sectional
views.
Right: Close-up view of the
cockpit of a Curtiss flying
boat. From The Sperry
Aeroplane Stabilizer and
Aerial Navigation Apparatus
(The Sperry Gyroscope
Company, New York. c.1915).
Below: Packard and Liberty
engines. From left: Packard
Models 1 to 3 and Liberty
Models B and A. RAeS (NAL).
Brandbomben: ein Beitrag
zum Luftschiftzproblem.
Rumpf. Verlag E S Mittler &
Sohn, Berlin. 1932. 224pp.
Illustrated.
A discussion of the history
of the use of artillery in warfare
is followed by a detailed study
of bombs and shell types.
Wie berechnet, konstruiert
und baut man ein
Flugzeug? O L Skopik.
Richard Carl Schmidt &
Co, Berlin. 1912. 221pp.
Illustrated.
The book concludes with
numerous detailed sectional
diagrams showing the
constructional details
(undercarriage, wheels,
cockpit, tail, struts and
propellers) of various early
aircraft designs. Includes line
arrangement diagrams of
the Paulhan-Tatin, Blackburn
Monoplane (1911), Moran
Borel, Hanriot, Vinet, A V Roe
Triplane and Dunne aircraft.
The Sperry Aeroplane
Stabilizer and Aerial
Navigation Apparatus. The
Sperry Gyroscope Company,
New York. c.1915. 13pp.
Illustrated.
Aeronautics in the United
States at the Signing of
the Armistice November 11
1918: an address presented
at the 345th Meeting of
the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, 10
January 1919. G O Squier.
64pp. Illustrated.
For any enquiries regarding this material, please
contact the librarians at Farnborough:
T +44 (0)1252 701038/701060
E [email protected])
Includes various statistical
graphs and summaries of the
production/performance
comparisons of de Havilland
DH4 and Handley Page
aircraft and Liberty engines,
balloons, pilot training
(including training fatalities),
helium and reviews of
developments in aviation
medicine and radio.
De l’Aérostation Sérieuse:
Mise a la Portee de Tous.
Vaussin-Chardanne. Bureau
de l’Ami des Sciences, Paris.
1858. 48pp + 2 pull-out
diagrams. Illustrated.
Praktische Flugmotorenkunde. C W Vogelsang.
Richard Carl Schmidt &
Co, Berlin. 1938. 229pp.
Illustrated.
Includes descriptions of
the Argus As 8/As 10/As
17, BMW VI/132 A/132 D,
Hirth HM 60/R1/HM 504A,
SH 14A, Napier Javelin/Lion/
Rapier/Dagger among other
engine types.
Motoren fur Luftschiffe
und Flugapparate. A
Vorreiter. Richard Carl Schmidt
& Co, Berlin. 1910. 225pp.
Illustrated.
Illustrated throughout
with numerous photographs
and line diagrams, includes
descriptions of the Daimler,
Argus, NAG, Adler, Korting,
ENV, Levasseur, Renault
Freres, Rumpler, Farcot, Fiat,
Wright, Dutheil und Chalmers,
Anzani, Esnault-Pelterie,
Clement-Bayard, Gobron,
Schiske, Ellehammer, Bucherer,
Burlat, Adams (Farwell),
Herrings, Gnome, Ajax and
Knight among other early aero
engine designs.
The librarians would like
acknowledge the assistance
of Sally Duncan, Assistant
Library Manager, Farnborough Library, in arranging
for this material to be
presented to the National
Aerospace Library.
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