Aviation Autographs. An archive of approximately 100 autographs and letters to the pioneer aviator Sir Alan Cobham (1894-1973), circa 1927-1970, the majority typewritten or handwritten on letterhead paper, signed, from over 40 major figures in the world of pre-war and post-war aviation including RAF pilots, aircraft company founders and designers, etc.: Jeffery Quill (1913-1996), Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964), Geoffrey De Havilland (1882-1965), John Cunningham (1917-2002), Captain Ray Hinchliffe (1893-1928), Johnny Johnson (1915-2001), Sir Frederick Handley Page (1885-1962), Lord Trenchard (1873-1956), Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948), Roland Beamont (1920-2001), Lord Brabazon (1884-1964), Jimmy Doolittle (1896 - 1993), Frank Whittle (1907-1996), Lord Dowding (1882-1970), Peter Twiss (1921-2011), Squadron Leader David Shannon (1922-1993), Squadron Leader Tony Iveson (1919-2013), and others, together with related mostly non-vintage press photographs, brochures, newscuttings and photocopies (but including some period items), plus two related publications containing signatures of numerous British test pilots and RAF pilots: Don Middleton, Test Pilots, The Story of British Test Flying 1903-1984 (Guild Publishing, 1985), signed by twenty four pilots including Ken Waller, David Morgan, Headly Hazelden, Godfrey Outy, Cliff Rodgers, Brian Milton, Desmond Penfrose, Alex Henshaw, Peter Twiss, Brian Trubshaw, Paul Millet, and others, and Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt, The Bomber Command War Diaries, An Operational Reference Book 1930-1945 (Viking, 1987), containing fifty autograph signatures by wartime members of 617 Squadron, air and ground crews, obtained at the 1957 Dam Buster Memorial event at the Petworth Hotel, Wood Hall Spa, including Mick Martin, D J Shannon, L G Knight, J C McCarthy, K W Brown, W C Townsend, Wolley Tait, L. Cheshire, T V Iveson, Bill Reid and others, both volumes original cloth in dust wrappers, large 8vo, the main correspondence all contained in one box file (Quantity: an archive) Sir Alan Cobham was a noted pilot who undertook a succession of record-breaking long-distance flights in the 1920s and 1930s.This collection includes correspondence relating to the development of air-to-air refuelling, and Sir Alan Cobham's company Flight Refuelling Ltd (FRL) which he founded in the mid 1930's. By 1939 FRL's looped hose refuelling system was practical enough to be regularly used to top up Imperial Airways flying boats departing on the transatlantic service. During World War Two FRL concentrated on military aircraft modifications, including the development of an extra long-range version of the Avro Lancaster for the RAF ‘Tiger Force’, intended to operate against Japan. Although the Japanese surrender meant these aircraft were never used, the experience allowed FRL to modify and operate a fleet of Lancaster and Lancastrian aircraft to ferry fuel into the besieged city of Berlin during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49.
Aviation Autographs. An archive of approximately 100 autographs and letters to the pioneer aviator Sir Alan Cobham (1894-1973), circa 1927-1970, the majority typewritten or handwritten on letterhead paper, signed, from over 40 major figures in the world of pre-war and post-war aviation including RAF pilots, aircraft company founders and designers, etc.: Jeffery Quill (1913-1996), Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964), Geoffrey De Havilland (1882-1965), John Cunningham (1917-2002), Captain Ray Hinchliffe (1893-1928), Johnny Johnson (1915-2001), Sir Frederick Handley Page (1885-1962), Lord Trenchard (1873-1956), Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948), Roland Beamont (1920-2001), Lord Brabazon (1884-1964), Jimmy Doolittle (1896 - 1993), Frank Whittle (1907-1996), Lord Dowding (1882-1970), Peter Twiss (1921-2011), Squadron Leader David Shannon (1922-1993), Squadron Leader Tony Iveson (1919-2013), and others, together with related mostly non-vintage press photographs, brochures, newscuttings and photocopies (but including some period items), plus two related publications containing signatures of numerous British test pilots and RAF pilots: Don Middleton, Test Pilots, The Story of British Test Flying 1903-1984 (Guild Publishing, 1985), signed by twenty four pilots including Ken Waller, David Morgan, Headly Hazelden, Godfrey Outy, Cliff Rodgers, Brian Milton, Desmond Penfrose, Alex Henshaw, Peter Twiss, Brian Trubshaw, Paul Millet, and others, and Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt, The Bomber Command War Diaries, An Operational Reference Book 1930-1945 (Viking, 1987), containing fifty autograph signatures by wartime members of 617 Squadron, air and ground crews, obtained at the 1957 Dam Buster Memorial event at the Petworth Hotel, Wood Hall Spa, including Mick Martin, D J Shannon, L G Knight, J C McCarthy, K W Brown, W C Townsend, Wolley Tait, L. Cheshire, T V Iveson, Bill Reid and others, both volumes original cloth in dust wrappers, large 8vo, the main correspondence all contained in one box file (Quantity: an archive) Sir Alan Cobham was a noted pilot who undertook a succession of record-breaking long-distance flights in the 1920s and 1930s.This collection includes correspondence relating to the development of air-to-air refuelling, and Sir Alan Cobham's company Flight Refuelling Ltd (FRL) which he founded in the mid 1930's. By 1939 FRL's looped hose refuelling system was practical enough to be regularly used to top up Imperial Airways flying boats departing on the transatlantic service. During World War Two FRL concentrated on military aircraft modifications, including the development of an extra long-range version of the Avro Lancaster for the RAF ‘Tiger Force’, intended to operate against Japan. Although the Japanese surrender meant these aircraft were never used, the experience allowed FRL to modify and operate a fleet of Lancaster and Lancastrian aircraft to ferry fuel into the besieged city of Berlin during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49.
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