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[cessnaxpilot]

So I just finished “Sky Talk” and “Sky Talk 2,” by Philip Hogge. I enjoy this period of aviation, and having started my career at TWA, I’ve heard many a tale of the “golden era” Anyway… looking on YouTube I just watched a presentation by Philip Hogge on BOAC by the Brooklands Museum. I hope you enjoy this as well.

BOAC link

[washoutt]

I just had a browse on ABE books, and while the pricing is great ("4 dollars, 3.50 dollars") shipping is awfull, 20 dollars from the USA to the EU. Very expensive!

[DHfan]

That's happened here, too.
It used to be possible to buy things from Ebay in the US but a few years ago the shipping costs suddenly became astronomical,

[cessnaxpilot]

Sun publishing

I’ve downloaded a couple of books from Sun Publishing after reading Sky Talk. I’ll be in the UK visiting my son this summer… any recommendations of where I can see the inside of a VC 10? I’ll be in Cambridge.

Aviation books

[DHfan]

There's a VC10 at Duxford, belonging to the Duxford Aviation Society, which is really convenient from Cambridge, only just down the road.

They do open some of their airliners for tours, but from memory, it's only one or two at a time, and I don't know if the VC10 is one they open anyway.

The other option I know of is Brooklands but it's not very convenient from Cambridge and I seem to recall it's in VIP fit. Sultan of Oman?

[cessnaxpilot]

Originally Posted by DHfan

There's a VC10 at Duxford, belonging to the Duxford Aviation Society, which is really convenient from Cambridge, only just down the road.

They do open some of their airliners for tours, but from memory, it's only one or two at a time, and I don't know if the VC10 is one they open anyway.

The other option I know of is Brooklands but it's not very convenient from Cambridge and I seem to recall it's in VIP fit. Sultan of Oman?

I’m just looking at Duxford Aviation Society. That looks like an amazing museum. Thank you.

[Jhieminga]

I have a list of VC10s in museums here: https://www.vc10.net/History/preserved.html
the last two complete ones in that list are not currently available for viewing unfortunately.

[cessnaxpilot]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

I have a list of VC10s in museums here: https://www.vc10.net/History/preserved.html
the last two complete ones in that list are not currently available for viewing unfortunately.

fantastic site. Thank you.

[fitliker]

First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Not many Seventeen year fighter pilots in WW2 , even fewer at the Battle of Britain .
One of the few .

[Stranraer]

First Light by Geoffrey Wellum

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An excellent book, made into a very good movie:
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You Tube

[Bergerie1]

cessnaxpilot, See your PMs, I have sent you one

[DHfan]

Originally Posted by fitliker

First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Not many Seventeen year fighter pilots in WW2 , even fewer at the Battle of Britain .
One of the few .

Recommended on Page 1.
It became an instant classic when published.

[ATSA1]

+1 for a recommendation for Duxford..the USAF museum there is something else too!

[cessnaxpilot]

Originally Posted by Jhieminga

I have a list of VC10s in museums here: https://www.vc10.net/History/preserved.html
the last two complete ones in that list are not currently available for viewing unfortunately.

so I couldn’t go, but my wife went with my son and they’re sending me photos of the VC-10 at the Imperial War Museum near Cambridge. I’m jealous of all the photos they are sending!

I think my wife is going to try to get my son a ride in a tiger moth. Meanwhile…. Someone in the family needs to stay behind and work :-)

thank you for the links

[777Alzheimer]

Brian Lecomber wrote three brilliant novels.Dead Weight.
Talk Down.
Turn Killer.

Pour a glass and start reading.

[pax britanica]

A different slant to flying and an interesting one are two books by Mark Vanhoenacker an airline pilot who is gay and writes about his life on the way to and on the flight deck time in certain global cities from a pilots viewpoint , not from the flight deck but as an airline pilot might see them little time there but often. Mark r is a Belgian-American Boeing 787 pilot with British Airways and is also frequent contributor for the New York Times, The two books I've read -audiobooks- Skyfaring and Imagine a City .were really good and with a different slant on aviation and flying the world

[Yellow Sun]

Four titles that go some way to describing the many faceted maritime role:

Ensor’s Endeavour by Vincent Orange

Arctic Airmen by Schofield and Nesbit

Liberators Over The Atlantic by John and Richard Coleman

Man Is Not Lost by D. Richardson

YS

[Mogwi]

Originally Posted by fitliker

First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Not many Seventeen year fighter pilots in WW2 , even fewer at the Battle of Britain .
One of the few .

An amazing guy. I had the exceptional pleasure of spending the day with him a few months before he died. I took him a copy of my book but found that he had bought one when it first came out.

We were being interviewed by the BBC and he got a bit fed up with some of the silly questions!

Mog

[Discorde]

These e-books are available for free access:

Airway to the Isles
Flight 935 Do You Read
The Sommerville Case

[rog747]

Dilip Sarkar MBE has written some good books: Battle of Britain, Spitfire, WW2...He also is a guide for some Battle of Britain tours.
Nice chap, I know him.
HIs Bio and books

Also the owner, Nigel Morter of the old Control Tower at RAF North Creake, near Wells, North Norfolk (which is now nice the most wonderful restored 1940's example of a Control Tower and B&B to stay at) has just penned a tribute book about the History of the Airfield, and the Airmen that flew from there, and their stories.
The new book is titled 'Control Tower Calling'

Nigel and his partner Claire who run the B&B are good pals of mine, and I have been staying there since they opened in 2014.
A short break at the B&B to immerse yourself in WW2 RAF Bomber Command History and 1940's Nostalgia is well worth it - and take a few good books with you!
Last weekend the Times featured an article about the Control Tower B&B.

The Control Tower B&B Nigel and Claire

Times article on the B&B from last weekend.