British Secret Projects. Jet Bombers Since
1949. Second Edition.
The recently published second edition of Tony
Buttler’s book is
even better than the now fifteen years old first edition. It is
considerably bigger (over 350 pages) with much new information and many
new illustrations. There is much to interest the Hawker enthusiast in
this book which covers some fifty Kingston projects. A strong point is
that it has mainly original general arrangement drawings, photographs
of company models and contemporary photographs and ‘artists’
impressions. This high quality production is published by Crecy (ISBN
978 19108091905) at £27.50, well worth it for the amount of research
into original sources that the author has carried out.
The Aviation Historian Issue 25.
Another cracking volume. Of particular interest to
Members will be the article, ’Making a Pig’s Ear from a Silk Purse’ on
the procurement F-4K Phantom that was chosen by the Royal Navy, urged
on by ’Winkle’ Brown, instead of the P.1154. Those of us who like
modern projects will be fascinated by the first of a two-part piece on
Convair’s submissions for the US Navy’s proposal for a seaplane
striking force. There are, of course, many other articles of general
aviation interest including the story of the Yak 28PP electronic
warfare variant.