The Flying Sword

{detailed description}The Story of No. 601 (County of London) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Its emblem was a Flying Sword but people knew it as "The Millionaires' Squadron". Its first Commanding Officer was a romantic aristocrat to whom the aeroplane was a development of the horse, but its second one couldn't fly. A rival squadron bombed it with rubbish and dead animals. One of its officers bought a filling station to avoid petrol rationing. It was equipped with a plane that could not be mastered. This was No. 601 (County of London) Auxiliary Squadron, first of the week-end air force squadrons.
Tom Moulson was a pilot in 601 from 1950 until its end in 1957. He describes its inception at White's Club in 1925; the fun-loving days of the 'thirties; the grim violence of the Battle of Britain and an even sterner test to follow; the closing campaigns in North Africa and Italy; post-war renaissance and eventual, strongly resisted, disbandment.
Was this an air force on the cheap, or an exclusive club for petrol-wasting joy-riders ? This book provides, besides entertainment, a comprehensive and authentic answer to the question.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Tom Moulson
published by Macdonald 1964 1st edn. 184pp illustrated, index 15x22
{condition}very good in slightly edge-worn d/j.
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