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Flying to The Limit

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Few pilots can look back on such an exciting and varied flying career with so many 'firsts' as Wg Cdr Roland 'Bee' Beamont. Inspired in the '30s by the sight of ...
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My Part of The Sky

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Roland Beamont was one of 'the few' to whom a whole nation was indebted in the late summer of 1940. From his first posting to an operational squadron at Lille before ...
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Tempest Over Europe

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In Tempest Over Europe Roland Beamont describes the introduction of the Royal Air Force's first dedicated fighter bomber, the Typhoon in 1942 and its successor the Tempest in 1944. Wing Commander ...
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Not Much of an Engineer

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Within a few months of joining Rolls-Royce, Stanley Hooker, who had never before seen an aero engine, had added 30 per cent more power to the legendary Merlin engine. This was ...
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Swastika in The Gunsight

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"Beloved by his fellow countrymen, the distinguished military pilot and hero of the Soviet Union has passed away. Destined for greatness, he was born in April 1917 and shared with his ...
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I Kept No Diary

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Air Commodore Francis Rodwell Banks, RAF (ret'd), CB., OBE., Commander of Legion of Honour (France), Commander of the Legion of Merit (USA), Military Order of St. Stanislaus (Imperial Russia), Hon. CGIA., ...
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Fighter Over Finland

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During the Second World War, the mighty battles fought by the major combatants in France, the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and on the Eastern Front tended to obscure the ...
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Australia and Back

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The story of Sir Alan Cobhams flight to Australia and back in a DH50 float plane. The reason for choosing to attempt this flight in a float plane was that they ...
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Airymouse

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Harald Penrose made his first flight in 1919 with Alan Cobham in an AVRO 504K. There followed a long and distinguished career in aviation mainly as a test pilot. During this ...
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Cloud Cuckooland

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Cloud Cuckooland is a further volume of delightful reminiscences by Harald Penrose, one of the finest aviation writers in the world today. Following his retirement in 1969 after a long and ...
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