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In Hampshire Skies
Hampshire is a county unsurpassed in aviation history and reputation. From the relocation of the Army balloon factory to Aldershot at the end of the nineteenth century to the …
In Dorset Skies
Dorset, a county of outstanding natural beauty, can rightly lay claim to another exceptional feature - its aeronautical heritage. Some purists would say that such a claim owes much …
In Wiltshire's Skies
In 1911, Larkhill, near Durrington Down on Salisbury Plain, became Britain's first military airfield. Along with similar flying training bases constructed at nearby Upavon and …
Twenty-Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat
Air-route development in Africa was a result of Sir Alan Cobham's 1929 flight through and round Africa in a flying-boat. Lady Cobham accompanied her husband throughout the journey. …
In Somerset's Skies
Somerset has played an important part in the history of British aviation. Aircraft have been built in the county since the time of the First World War and the county's airfields …
A View from the Wings
Many books have been produced which detail the lives and thoughts of famous individuals. A View from the Wings is unique, recalling a wartime boyhood in which aircraft flying …
Sir Alan Cobham
Flying in the years between the two world wars was the preserve of the powerful and the wealthy, or so it was until Sir Alan Cobham’s ‘Flying Circus’ began to tour Britain.A former …
100 Years of Advertising in British Aviation
This beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time the myriad art works used by aviation companies, flying schools and manufacturers to promote their products …
Cobham - The Flying Years
Sir Alan Cobham is regarded by many as the visionary who made the largest individual contribution to the cause of British civil aviation. Graduating from early joy-riding …
Sir Alan Cobham
Flying in the years between the two world wars was the preserve of the powerful and the wealthy, or so it was until Sir Alan Cobham's 'Flying Circus' began to tour Britain. A …