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Post by popeye on Apr 23, 2009 13:53:02 GMT
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Steven Zaloga, I Palmer / Osprey / ISBN 978-1-84603-243-1
Subtitle: Robotic Air Warfare 1917 – 2007
Osprey soft cover booklet size, 46 pages, Colour & b/w pictures, artwork, cutaways.
Popular science type overview of the subject, interesting text and picture content,
not really suitable as a modelling reference as little detail info is provided due to the
restricted page count.
Rolf
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Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Jul 21, 2009 18:35:37 GMT
Dear All,
Two things, firstly any body got anything in electronic format they might be willing to send me....? Looking for more interesting reading and references. Have got quite a few myself, quite happy to let you know what I have, just email me......
Secondly, Have been revisiting the subject of South East Asia and bought and read a few more books.... Some I would recommend.....Not all Recce but in and around the subject.
A Lonely Kind of War, by Marshall Harrison, ISBN 9780671703479
The Ravens, by Christopher Robbins, ISBN 0-9646360-0-X.
Flying through Midnight, by John T Halliday, ISBN-13: 9780743274883
Definitely recommend these...............
Colin
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Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Oct 6, 2009 20:11:56 GMT
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Post by reccephreak on Mar 3, 2010 20:33:13 GMT
I just got a photo-recce book, that is FANTASTIC!!! ;D
It is Patton's Eyes in the Sky, USAAF Combat Reconnaissance Missions North-West Europe 1944-1945, by Tom Ives.
Published in the UK by Classic Publications (2003)
ISBN = 1-903223-26-1
There are 258 excellent B+W photos, 4 colour photos, 3 maps and 10 drawings, PLUS 30 FANTASTIC colour profiles!
There are a LOT of future model projects in this book.
Larry
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Post by foxy on Mar 3, 2010 20:35:40 GMT
'Yep', shows how Patton got his info and managed to push on, recon at its best.  |
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Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Apr 1, 2010 18:35:32 GMT
Dear All,
Continuing on my Vietnam Recce theme....
Low Level Hell, by Hugh Mills, ISBN 0-89141-719-2
Low, very, very low level Reconnaissance in OH6A Cayuse helicopters. Very good read...... Brave men.
Colin
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Post by popeye on Jun 24, 2010 7:30:40 GMT
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Post by MikeC on Oct 17, 2012 7:45:08 GMT
Just read Sky Spy by Ray Holmes (Airlife, ISBN 1 85310 054 4). It was published in 1989 so may be a bit difficult to get hold of - I picked mine up at a model show recently - but if you can find it, it's a gem. Ray Holmes is most famous for being the pilot who, during the Battle of Britain, brought down a Dornier which crashed into Victoria station. But that was not all he did: He joined the RAFVR in 1936, and on mobilisation served as a fighter pilot, first in the Battle of Britain and later in Russia with 151 Wing near Murmansk. He was attached to the ATA, and also served as a Flying Instructor. Towards the end of the war he flew PR Spitfires from Benson. Whilst the latter is quite a small part of his service, it provides a lot of insight into how PR ops were conducted, and the air crews and ground staff who conducted them. Did you know, for example, that as an incentive a PR pilot was allowed to select and keep 5 prints from each successful sortie he flew? The rest of the book, although not directly reconnaissance-related, again provides much information on, for example: the pre-War RAFVR training scheme (which I was not aware even existed); the delivery of Hurricanes to the Soviets by 151 Wing RAF, who also operated them until they had trained the Russian aircrew; or what a night-flying training sortie with an inexperienced student in a Miles Master was like. But not only did the author have an eventful and interesting War, the book is also very well written. It's quite probably hard to get hold of, but well worth the effort - highly recommended. Edit: still available via Amazon at various prices second-hand: www.amazon.co.uk/Sky-Spy-Miles-Hitlers-Bunker/dp/1853100544/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350469142&sr=8-1No, I did not pay £86 for my copy! |
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Post by Robin on Oct 17, 2012 21:38:33 GMT
Just read Sky Spy by Ray Holmes (Airlife, ISBN 1 85310 054 4). It was published in 1989 so may be a bit difficult to get hold of - I picked mine up at a model show recently - but if you can find it, it's a gem. He joined the RAFVR in 1936, and on mobilisation served as a fighter pilot, first in the Battle of Britain and later in Russia with 151 Wing near Murmansk. Hi Mike. Not wishing to hijack your post, however, I have a painting at home that was given to me by one of my RAFA members who flew with 151 Wing in Russia. The painting is titled "In good hands", is of Russian bombers being escorted by Hurricane fighters, and is signed by a number of RAF pilots who were in Russia with 81 Sqn, including P/O R T Holmes.
Robin.
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