Bergel hugh obe (2 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Collected Edition. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 193pp. B/w photographs and diagrams throughout. Not library copy, name/date in ink to half title page, light crease and fading to spine. (24/2).

Octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 193 pp. Very Good+, with tidy bookplate and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to pages edges; in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: During the second world war the pilots of Air Transport Auxiliary -- almost all of them amateur pilots of limited experience -- were given the responsibility of ferrying virtually all RAF aircraft. They were given dual instructions on half-a-dozen or so representative types of aircraft; thereafter they were required to fly any and every type that came their way. To make this seemingly impossible job possible ATA's Technical Department produced Pilots' Handling Notes for all the ordinary, and some of the extraordinary types of aircraft ferried. In this book are reprinted, for the first time ever, the ATA's Handling Notes on seven notable types, the Hurricane, the Typhoon, the Airacobra, the Mosquito, the Beaufighter, the Wellington and the Liberator. Hugh Bergel, one-time CO of one of the ATA's Ferry Pools, who himself ferried about 950 aircraft of 80 different types (including these seven), heas written an introduction describing the formation, organisation and work of ATA, and has interpolated comments on points of special interest in the Notes. The book is illustrated by photographs of the seven aircraft types and close-up views of their cockpits and instrumentation. Aviation, World War II, WWII, Second World War, Military History, Pilot Biography, Air Transport Auxiliary. bxsli.…