Clive Richards

I’ll email it to you today.

Just returned home and yes, I do have a copy. Chapter 6, ‘The Making of Air History’?

I’m pretty sure that I have it - but I won’t be able to check until later today, I’m afraid. If so, happy to copy and send you the chapter that you need.

I have a copy…but it’s at home, and I’m on holiday in Lincolnshire at the moment. I can check it for you next weekend, if that’s any use? Please do pass on my best to Simon!

In 1944, Germany was on CET until 02:00 3 April; then GST until 02:00 2 October; then back to CET until 02:00 2 April 1945. Hope that this helps.

The late Roy Nesbit included a decode of UK and German local times between 1939 & 1945 in his contribution to PRO Readers Guide No 8 ‘RAF Records in the PRO’ (1994), p63-4. In 1944-45, the UK was on BST until 02:00 2 April; then BDST until 02:00 17 Sep; then back to BST until 02:00 2 Apr 1945.

Very happy to help!

CSDIC reports S.I.R. 595 - 676, July-August 1944, are held by TNA as WO 208/3594 - it should be in there, I think.

I'm afraid that John Alexander (@ac1shaw.bsky.social) and Harry Raffal (@rafhistory.bsky.social) are much better placed to answer that than I am, James - I haven't yet seen the book, just the proof of my chapter.

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Thank you, Ross! Hoping be able to submit something to 'From Balloons to Drones' next year.

I’m very grateful to Harry, John, and Aeroplane editor Ben Dunnell for the opportunity to contribute to both publications.

Front cover of 'Close Air Support: Case Studies on the Integration of Air Power on the Battlefield', edited by Harry Raffal and John Alexander

Secondly, my chapter examining the development and employment of Aerial Rocket Artillery helicopters by the US Army is in the collection Close Air Support, edited by
Harry Raffal (@rafhistory.bsky.social) and John Alexander (@ac1shaw.bsky.social) and published today by Helion.

First page of my article in the January 2025 issue of 'Aeroplane' magazine, considering the cancellation of the BAC TSR2.

Sorry for the self-promotion, but I’m very pleased to see two pieces appear in print in the last few days. Firstly, my article on the decision to cancel TSR2 can be found in the Jan ’25 issue of 'Aeroplane' magazine, out last week (alongside @jdkightly.bsky.social’s excellent Wirraway article).

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Very grateful if you could add me to the list! Thanks, Alex.

I’ll try to post more regularly in future, but I make no promises that they will be worth your time.

While I still research aviation history (and sometimes get around to writing something down), my interests also include military and naval history, civil/military relations, and photography. Sadly, I can’t offer proof of cat – we don’t have one.

Despite having posted very little in the last year, I seem to have attracted a few new followers over the last week and I ought to say hello. I am UK based; ex-Air Historical Branch (a long time ago); ex-RAF Museum (a very long time ago); and I have a Masters in Air Power History.

College Hall - hope you enjoyed your visit!

You might like to take a look at 'Farnborough and the Fleet Air Arm' by Geoffrey Cooper (Midland, 2008) - although I haven't been able to find a direct reference to a 'high speed film unit' (sadly there's no index), he does include a section on 'Data Acquisition and Processing' (pp166-8).

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Nice image! Despite everything that's already appeared in print, I'm now drafting yet another (hopefully two-part) article looking at the origins and early history of this aircraft (quite a few of its' contemporaries also figure in the finished text, space permitting).

At one stage in 1943 it was suggested that the Mosquito should be manufactured in the USSR. Although a single example (a B.IV) was flown to the Soviet Union in the following year for trials and to serve as a pattern aircraft, the proposal was ultimately abandoned.

At the beginning of 1942 the Admiralty expressed serious concerns about the introduction of the Buckingham, arguing that it would be inferior to the Beaufort as a torpedo bomber and that production would be at the expense of both the Beaufort and the Beaufighter.

Similarly, Quarterly Review No 7 (Oct-Dec 1943) stated that ‘The battle for Berlin started in earnest in November, 1943, since when it has continued unabated’ (p3). The phrases (or variations of them) therefore seem to have been coined almost immediately.

‘The Battle of the Ruhr’ appeared in Bomber Command Quarterly Review No 5, Apr-Jul 1943, issued by HQ Bomber Command later in the same year (p1). The next Quarterly Review (No 6, Jul-Sep 1943) referred to ‘The Battle of the Ruhr which provided the main theme of the second quarter of 1943…’ (p2)

Up to the end of the Second World War the Air Ministry was responsible for administering UK military AND civil aviation, and issued Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) covering both.

Great! Please do get in touch if you have any questions, or if you think that I can be of any further help.