Andrei Alexandrov
History of the flying boats and airships of the Imperial Russian Navy. Photos rarely seen in the West. To read the article please visit our online shop to join GWAS
From 2022, a digital pdf version of the Journal will be available. Members can see a sample pdf version of Vol 51/4 in the Members’ Area, above.
This will be an alternative to the printed Journal, not a replacement. Subscription cost will be less for Members wanting the digital version only, and the content will be fully searchable online
Lots of free material here that can be downloaded.
The winner of the Guild of Aviation Artists 2019 Exhibition in the WW1 category, with a prize sponsored by Cross and Cockade, was Grahame Turner’s highly commended “Photo-Shoot”, showing a BE2e crew obtaining vital reconnaissance information while under fire.
The runner-up was “Naval 8” by James Colthorpe
The latest book to be published by CCI is “Jewish Flyers in the World War”, a reprint and update of a book published in Germany in 1924 to counteract the upsurge in anti-Semitism. Some new entries have been added, and the eventual fates of those who survived WW1 have been added if known (of course some perished in the Holocaust).
Available from the CCI bookshop: Shop > Books > Books published by CCI
The York meetings are not happening at present; they may restart once the Covid pandemic is no longer an issue
The Royal Aeronautical Society have a large archive of podcasts of lectures and interviews, including many of WW1 interest
WW1 titles include:
Andy Sephton’s 2004 lecture to the RAeS in which he described the piloting techniques specific to the Edwardian and WW1 aeroplanes of the Shuttleworth Collection:
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-classic-lecture-series-flying-historical-aircraft-by-andy-sephton/
The 1969 sound recording of Clayton Knight aged 78 recalling reminiscences from his life and of his flying career with the U.S. Air Service during the First World War, which has been added to the National Aerospace Library Sound Archive – a real ‘Who’s Who‘ of aviation personalities and historical subjects – and is now available to listen to via the Royal Aeronautical Society’s SoundCloud web-site.
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-the-clayton-knight-interview/
Historic sound recordings from a 1959 BBC radio series have recently been added to the National Aerospace Library Sound Archive – a real ‘Who’s Who’ of aviation personalities and historical subjects – and are now available to listen to via the Royal Aeronautical Society’s SoundCloud web-site. Produced for BBC Overseas Service by R. A. Symes-Schutzmann, the radio documentary series was a group of talks on the development of British aviation broadcast by BBC External Services in 1959 in the series ‘English Talks for Asia’.
With the programmes linked by Charles Gibbs-Smith, they include recordings of Lord Brabazon, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Major G. P. Bulman, Sir Harold Roxbee Cox, Sir Graham Sutton, Sir Alan Cobham, Captain O. P. Jones, ACM Sir Alec Coryton, Hayne Constant, Sir Robert Watson-Watt, A. A. Lombard, Sir George Edwards, Captain John Cunningham and Geoffrey Hall discussing the development of British aviation from their own personal perspectives.
The specific link to the recordings are as follows (just click on the arrow button to ‘Play’) :-
Episode 1 – Charles Gibbs-Smith and Lord Brabazon
Episode 2 – Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Major G. P. Bulman, Sir Harold Roxbee Cox
The remaining episodes will be digitally released in the coming weeks.
