MANX AVIATION IN WAR & PEACE
Written by Gordon N. Kniveton
Published by The Manx Experience
in 1985
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- AIRCRAFT
- WORLD WAR II
- ISLE OF MAN
MANX AVIATION IN WAR & PEACE
Written by Gordon N. Kniveton.
Stock no. 1324175
1st.
1985.
Softcover.
Large format.
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. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Contents clean.
MANX AVIATION IN WAR & PEACE
Written by Gordon N. Kniveton.
Stock no. 2139186
Softcover.
Large format.
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.
Front cover
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