Dimensions
220 x 280 x 15mm
From pioneering jets to the foundations of some of today's most successful aircraft, the experimetnal aircraft of the post-war years represent the most exciting years of British aviation. This book tells their remarkable stories, of the triumphs and frustrations of experimentation at the cutting edge of aeronautical design. Aircraft covered:Gloster E.28/39; De Havilland D.H.108; Saunders Roe S.R.A/1; Hawker P.1040, P.1052, P.1072 and P.1081; Armstrong Whitworth AW.52G and 52; Gloster E.1/44; Supermarine E.41/46: Avro 707 Series; Avro Type 706 Ashton; Boulton Paul P.111, P.111a and P.210; Fairey FD.1; Handley Page H.P.88; Supermarine N.9/47; Short S.B.5; Short S.B.1 iS.B.4 Sherpa; Fairey F.D.2 and BAC Type 221; Short S.C.1; Saunders Roe S.R.53; Hawker P.1127; Handley Page H.P.115; Bristol Type 188; Hunting 126. Also includes cancelled projects: Miles M.52, Avro 720, Saunders Roe S.R.177. Supermarine 545, Hawker P.1121, BAC TSR.2 AUTHOR: The new Crowood Aviation Series book, V-Bombers is the fourth in the series for author Barry Jones, following Hawker Hunter, Gloster Meteor and English Electric Canberra. For many years Barry has been researching the military aircraft of the 1950s, and he has written a number of magazine articles on the subject too. Such is his expertise that the editorial staff of Aeroplane Monthly know him fondly as ?Jones the Jet'. Barry started his career in aviation during World War Two when ,hoping to become a very junior illustrator, he went for an interview at the Ministry of Aircraft Production. He arrived clutching his sample drawings and was told to go straight in to a large and imposing room. Sadly, the receptionist had mistaken him for a courier and he found himself in a meeting with a number of notable industry figures including the formidable Lord Beaverbrook. The mistake was hardly his fault, the incident was not held against him, and he got the job. He joined the Air Force and trained as an Air Gunner although he was not sent on operations, as attrition on existing air gunners had not been as bad as had been feared, and so he remustered as a Parachute Jumping Instructor until demobbed and returning to his job with the Ministry. His subsequent career has led him through many interesting and varied positions. For several years he worked at Flight and some of the photographs borrowed for all four of his Crowood books have shown signs of original 1950s Jones retouching! He has also worked in Technical Publications at Vickers-Armstrongs in Weybridge where he illustrated the Valiant, Vanguard, VC10 and TSR2, as well as playing in the Vickers Tech Pubs cricket team. He was the first of the 72 artists at Weybridge to use an airbrush and remembers asking for the use of a compressor. It duly arrived, a massive thing on wheels that could have supplied air for most of Weybridge's air tools. This did not hold him back and over the years he has produced some excellent artwork, some of which is to be seen in his books. Barry also freelanced as a writer, illustrator and photographer and was among the select band or artists that produced box art for Airfix models. Barry is now retired and lives in Warwickshire with his wife. He no longer illustrates as, like so many other retired people, he is simply too busy with more interesting things. 130 colour artworks e247 photo
