...ett Holman The scan quality is quite good -- better than the microfilm equivalents for the Express and Mirror which I've used. In those, photos are often impossible to make out whereas here, although they're far from reproduction quality, you can at least see what's going on! And yes, full keyword searching is supported and the interface is user-friendly (until the NewspaperARCHIVE one which would be a pain to use for serious research). The PDFs y...
...that the Flight Archive was made available by some kind of Royal Aeronautical Society grant. I will try to find out if this is correct. Erik Lund Flight's banner used to mention that it was the official magazine of the Royal Aero Club and (I think) the Royal Aeronautical Society. Does the RAeC even still exist? Google says that it does, and also that there's a " . . . Royal Aero Club Trust, which is a charity to provide resources for youth involv...
...nal Waterfront Museum, which explores the industrial history and technological of Wales. Of which there is quite a lot! The sort of vessel which might have towed it: a 1950s tug called Canning. Now to the National Waterfront Museum proper. This was the first mobile shop in Wales, owned and operated by Winston Howard in the Vale of Glamorgan between 1929 and 1969. So the idea was that people in rural areas would buy most of their goods from a villa...
...the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, discussed the claims (and some of the political posturing behind them) for us in Flightpath V21N1 last year. Brett Holman Dumb question, but why don't they put the original on display? And why didn't you plug your own post on the Houdini flight? :) JDK Good question! I don't know, as the replica is actually an airworthy one, and therefore has a number of variations that make flying it more viable, but less accurate....
...ly battalion drills (together with volunteer companies from nearby McLaren Vale and Noarlunga.) The battalion then broke into open column right in front, marching past in quick time. The Companies were then closed and the march past in close column was gone through and exceedingly well executed, the circle round the wheeling points being performed with much steadiness. Various battalion movements were then gone through, after which the Willunga Co...
...pectacle to project images of future warfare, national power and technological prowess, was a key method for creating an airminded public in the early 20th century. The most significant and influential form of aerial theatre in interwar Britain was the Royal Air Force (RAF) Display at Hendon, in which military aircraft put on impressive flying performances before large crowds, including an elaborate set-piece acting out a battle scenario with an i...
...I have volume 1; this covers the Blitz proper, September 1940 to May 1941. Massively detailed; a geek's delight. Barbara Stoney. Twentieth Century Maverick: The Life of Noel Pemberton Billing. East Grinstead: Bank House Books, 2004. P-B is a fascinating figure and it's surprising he hasn't had a biography (other than an auto- one, published in 1917) before now. Unfortunately it's not an academic biography, so it's light on references, but it looks...
...te time to reflect on how useful the whole thing is. I was initially sceptical, but I find that Twitter does complement blogging very well. It's a good place to post links to useful or interesting links which I think are worth sharing, but aren't worth a blog post (I don't like just posting links: I feel I should say something insightful to go along with it, but I don't always have something insightful to say!) Ditto for things I come across in my...
...records created or inherited by the Air Ministry and the RAF. More specifically: AIR 1: Air Historical Branch, 1913-1931. Subjects include: 'Australian Flying Corps; Royal Naval Air Serivice; Gallipoli; No. 1 Squandron [sic], Australian Flying Corps; No. 2 Squandron [sic], Australian Flying Corps; No. 4 Squandron [sic], Australian Flying Corps; No. 67 Squandron [sic], Australian Flying Corps; No. 68 Squandron [sic], Australian Flying Corps; No. 6...
...ction on those little blue weirdos, but it could be argued that it's a logical extension of UNICEF's educational activities, or perhaps of their work in the area of protecting the mental health of children. But what's next? Smurfs are one thing, but where does it all end? That's the question that concerned citizens should be asking. UNICEF It was made very clear to the Smurfs that they were either with us or against us. Who knows what they were co...
