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MANX AVIATION IN WAR & PEACE

by Gordon N. Kniveton

Published by The Manx Experience.

Very good condition. Large format. Ronaldsway Aerodrome; Hall Caine; R.A.F. Jurby; R.A.F. Andreas; H.M.S. Urley; Ronaldsway Airport. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. 104 pages.

Spine is faded. Some bumping to top corners.

Stock no. 2139186

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Contents

  • Part One
  • A New Dimension
  • The First Flying Machines
  • The visit of Gustave Hamel
  • Salmet and Raynham at the Carnival
  • Across the Irish Sea
  • Pleasure Flying
  • Just Visiting
  • British Amphibious Airlines Ltd.
  • 1933-34: Years of Enterprise
  • 1933-36: Years of Expansion
  • Hall Caine Airport
  • Ronaldsway Aerodrome
  • 1937-39: Years of Rationalization
  • The Isle of Man Air Races
  • Part Two
  • R.A.F. Station Jurby
  • The Big Snow of 1940
  • 8th October 1941, Day of Disaster
  • A Wartime Diary
  • Plane of Jurby Airfield
  • R.A.F. Station Andreas
  • No. 11 Air Gunnery School
  • Plane of Andreas Airfield
  • No. 1 Ground Defence Gunnery School, Ronaldsway
  • Royal Naval Air Station Ronaldsway
  • H.M.S. Urley
  • Plan of Ronaldsway Airfield
  • Part Three
  • British European Airways and the Independents
  • 1948: A Black Year
  • Post-war Air Terminal
  • 1953-62: Manx Airlines and Silver City
  • The Winter Hill Air Disaster
  • 1963-72: Cambrian and British United Airways
  • 1972-80: From British Airways to British Midland
  • New Concepts and the Future
  • Plan of Ronaldsway Airport
  • Airports Board Chairmen and Officials
  • Acknowledgements

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