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RAF Training Command - Keith Wilson - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

RAF Training Command - Keith Wilson - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

When the expansion of the RAF began in 1934, Air Commodore Tedder observed that the established order of school training not only failed to produce operational competence, but left so much to be done by the operational squadrons that they could only attain passable military efficiency after an uphill struggle. He proposed to raise the standards of school instruction so that pilots would leave the facility as operationally competent pilots, although it would mean lengthening the period of instruction as well as revising the syllabus.It was against this somewhat sorry background of training and logistical problems, as well as having the clouds of war firmly visible on the horizon, that the decision was taken to form a new RAF Training Command on 1 May 1936; an organisation derived from the ashes of the former RAF Inland Area.This book will tell the story – in words and pictures – of RAF Training Command from 1 May 1936 until it was separated into Flying Training Command and Technical Training Command on 27 May 1940. Both commands were then transferred into the newly re-established RAF Training Command on 1 June 1968, until it was then absorbed into RAF Support Command on 13 June 1977.

DKK 161.00
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Bus Company Training Vehicles - Malcolm Batten - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Bus Company Training Vehicles - Malcolm Batten - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The larger bus operators, whether municipal or company owned, have traditionally trained their own new drivers. Normally older vehicles from the fleet were retained and adapted for training, adorned with ‘L’ plates. In earlier days they would usually just retain fleet livery. Sometimes they might receive a separate livery, to warn other road users. When the National Bus Company introduced corporate liveries of red or green for its fleets, many of their constituent companies used yellow for their training and service vehicles. Then, as recruitment became more difficult from around the 1980s, colourful liveries with invitational recruitment slogans tended to appear and this has continued since. Rather surprisingly, companies often bought in buses for training from other companies rather than converting their own, and these might be types not otherwise represented in their fleet.This book looks at a variety of training vehicles from around the country over the last fifty years, including examples that have survived into preservation.

DKK 161.00
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US Naval Aviation in the 1980s: Marine Corps, Naval Training, Test and Reserve Air Stations - Adrian Symonds - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

US Naval Aviation in the 1980s: Marine Corps, Naval Training, Test and Reserve Air Stations - Adrian Symonds - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

This, the second of two volumes covering United States Naval Aviation in the 1980s, completes the story by exploring training, reserve, test and US Marine Corps air stations.US Marine Corps aviation squadrons took part in combat operations, while supplementing older types like the A-4 and F-4, with new types including the AV-8B, CH-53E and F/A-18. Naval Education and Training Command oversaw the ‘Street to Fleet’ process, recruiting civilians and turning them into combat-ready naval personnel, including officer and enlisted aviation rated personnel.The Naval Air Reserve was a reflection of the frontline it was intended to support in wartime, including two Carrier Air Wings and numerous other squadrons, which often operated older types. Naval Air Systems Command used every conceivable naval aviation aircraft type, as well as several non-standard types, to conduct research, testing and evaluation.Take a step inside the day-to-day operations of Naval Aviation in the 1980s.

DKK 161.00
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School of Aces - Alastair Goodrum - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

School of Aces - Alastair Goodrum - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

This is the fascinating true story behind one of the key reasons that RAF Fighter Command saw such success in the Second World War and emerged victorious from the Battle of Britain – the incredible training school that transformed young men from inexperienced pilots into some of the finest airmen in the world.From peacetime Armament Practice Camp, to fighter Operational Training Unit, to Central Gunnery School, this is the story of how, between 1926 and 1946, the RAF developed and implemented a world-beating training system. This allowed the RAF to have total faith in the men tasked with combatting the Nazi threat from the air, and School of Aces tells the astonishing story of the station through a wealth of individual stories – with famous names, drama, courage and pathos a-plenty – recalling how pilots, air gunners and ground crew came to be at RAF Sutton Bridge, what life was like for them there and what happened to them afterwards.Prior to and during the Battles of France and Britain, RAF Sutton Bridge played a vital role in the British success by creating, in a remarkably short time, an effective training programme for potential fighter pilots. It then turned out 494 Hurricane pilots with such rapidity that summer that no fewer than 390 graduates flew as part of that illustrious band of men known forever as ''The Few''.

DKK 127.00
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Staffordshire Airfields Through Time - Alec Brew - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Staffordshire Airfields Through Time - Alec Brew - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

From some of the first ever airfields in Great Britain, through the municipal airports of Stoke, Walsall and Wolverhampton, to a total of eighteen RAF airfields in the Second World War, Staffordshire has always embraced aviation. Both Stoke and Wolverhampton were taken over for the use of Elementary Flying Training Schools, huge new airfields were built to house bomber Operational Training Units at Hixon and Lichfield, and to provide extra room for the Elementary Flying Training Schools, grass satellite airfields were built at Penkridge, Abbots Bromley and Battlestead Hill. Finally, Relief Landing Grounds for the storage of aircraft were created in the grounds of stately homes at Teddesley Park and Hoar Cross.Since the war the number has dwindled steadily, as agriculture reclaimed several and housing many others. Nowadays, only the ghosts of forgotten wings tell of the long lost heroes who flew at many of these airfields. In almost 200 photographs, this book places the aircraft, runways and buildings in the modern landscape, showing how they have been transformed.

DKK 237.00
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Nurses and Nursing - Dr Susan Cohen - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Nurses and Nursing - Dr Susan Cohen - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Nurses and nursing are firmly rooted in Britain’s heritage, for the profession as we know it today owes much to the pioneering work of Florence Nightingale. Before she helped establish the first nurse training school in Liverpool in the late 1800s, the women who looked after the sick were a motley mix.The role of the nurse has developed from the untrained handywoman and private nurse, through the early nurses who acted as ‘health missioners’, to the highly trained professionals we recognise today. Nurse training has evolved to reflect the advances in medical treatment and nurses have been able to engage more widely with the community by undergoing additional training as, for example, district nurses, school nurses, midwives, health visitors and mental health nurses. During both world wars, nurses made a special contribution on the home front and overseas. Using first-hand accounts from nurses through the ages, Susan Cohen takes us on a nostalgic journey through the history of nurses and nursing in Britain, from the pre-Nightingale days through to the post-NHS era.This book is part of the Britain’s Heritage series, which provides definitive introductions to the riches of Britain’s past, and is the perfect way to get acquainted with nurses and nursing in all their variety.

DKK 110.00
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Founder of Sandhurst, Maj-Gen John Le Marchant - Paul Le Messurier - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Founder of Sandhurst, Maj-Gen John Le Marchant - Paul Le Messurier - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

John Gaspard Le Marchant was born in France in 1766, his father from Guernsey, his mother French. He joined the British Army aged sixteen and despite his family’s moderate wealth and lack of society connections, he rose through the ranks to become one of the most accomplished cavalry officers of his time. A master swordsman, he had seen how poor training with the sword resulted in numerous casualties amongst the British cavalry – sometimes accidentally self-inflicted. Le Marchant set about designing a new cavalry sabre, writing instruction manuals on swordsmanship and training cavalry men throughout the country. Le Marchant’s achievements did not go unnoticed and he enjoyed the patronage of George III and the Duke of York.He didn’t stop there. His proposal for a military establishment for the professional training of army officers initially met with opposition. He persevered, and the Royal Military College was founded in 1801, where he served as its inaugural Lieutenant-Governor. Later relocating to Sandhurst, the institution evolved to become the world-famous Royal Military Academy.In 1811, Major-General Le Marchant joined the Duke of Wellington’s army in Portugal and Spain. At the Battle of Salamanca he led what is considered to be one of the most successful British cavalry charges of the Peninsular War. He was killed during the battle, aged 46. A fearless cavalry officer and commander, expert swordsman, visionary and reformer, talented artist and devoted family man, Le Marchant’s legacy lives on at Sandhurst.

DKK 221.00
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Class 20 Locomotives in Scotland - Colin J. Howat - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Class 20 Locomotives in Scotland - Colin J. Howat - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

English Electric Class 20 locomotives once operated over virtually the entire rail network of Scotland. They were introduced to the Highlands in the late 1950s and are probably best remembered for working local freight traffic or working in pairs pulling coal trains in the Central belt. This book covers Class 20s from the BR era up to recent freight operations, and many locations across the country are featured.With a wealth of previously unpublished images, this book will delight Scottish rail enthusiasts both young and old.

DKK 156.00
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How to Pilot a Submarine - United States Navy - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Pilot a Submarine - United States Navy - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The training aid for the US Submarine fleet at the end of the Second World War, How to Pilot a Submarine gives us an idea of just what life was like underwater and the various tasks a submariner would have to do. Restricted and unavailable till now, How to Pilot a Submarine will teach you how to crash dive, how to maintain the engines and batteries of a World War Two submarine and, most importantly, how to fire the torpedoes and to deal with life underwater.

DKK 115.00
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How to Fly a Plane - Captain Horatio Barber - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

How to Fly a Plane - Captain Horatio Barber - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The training aid for many a pilot from one of the leading instructors of the First World War. There are 160 pages with many illustrations of leading aircraft of the period. Chock full of handy tips for the budding aviator. Nothing could ready you for the world of combat, where pilots'' lives were measured in hours rather than years, but Captain Barber of the Royal Flying Corps could prepare you for your first solo flight in the primitive aircraft of the time. Taking you through the various types, he shows you how to fly a First World War biplane.

DKK 119.00
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London Routemasters in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s - Mike Rhodes - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

London Routemasters in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s - Mike Rhodes - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Routemaster is the iconic London bus, recognised around the world.This pictorial account features previously unseen pictures of the ubiquitous RM far and wide throughout the network during the period 1976–83, which included the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, when twenty-five of the type were specially painted in an all-over silver colour scheme.By the end of this period buses formerly allocated to the country garages had mainly gravitated back to the central area, some of which saw further passenger service while others were converted to driver training buses. It was also around this time that London Transport began to dispose of its RMs in significant numbers.

DKK 161.00
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Capturing Jack the Ripper - Neil R. A. Bell - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Capturing Jack the Ripper - Neil R. A. Bell - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

During the autumn of 1888 a serial killer stalked, brutally murdering his way through the East End of London. Some called him the ‘Whitechapel Monster’, while locals referred to him as ‘Leather Apron’, but to the world he was known as Jack the Ripper.The responsibility to capture this ‘murderous fiend’ fell upon the men of London’s Metropolitan and City police forces. Capturing Jack the Ripper investigates the working lives of these men, and what it took to become one of Queen Victoria’s police constables, from recruitment to training to life as a bobby.Join the police as they go out into the dank, crime-infested, gaslit abyss known as Whitechapel and try to capture Jack the Ripper.

DKK 126.00
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Dartmouth Through Time - Ginny Campbell - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Dartmouth Through Time - Ginny Campbell - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Situated within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Dartmouth is a popular tourist destination on the River Dart. As Ginny Campbell’s beautifully illustrated pages show, it has an abundance of history. Its port was the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190, and the Pilgrim Fathers visited in 1620 to repair the Speedwell.The area boasts many picturesque medieval and Elizabethan buildings, including the Butterwalk, where Charles II once dined, and Dartmouth Castle, which has guarded the mouth of the river for over 600 years. The admiralty began officer training on the river in 1863 and, in June 1944, 485 ships departed from the river carrying American servicemen to Utah Beach for D-Day.

DKK 237.00
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Gun Button to Fire - Tom Neil - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Gun Button to Fire - Tom Neil - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The amazing story of one of the ''Few'', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. This is a fighter pilot''s story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting - to 249 Squadron. Nineteen years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes he was soon to be pitch forked into the maelstrom of air fighting on which the survival of Britain was to depend. By the end of the year he had shot down 13 enemy aircraft, seen many of his friends killed, injured or burned, and was himself a wary and accomplished fighter pilot.

DKK 139.00
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The Fleet Air Arm and Royal Naval Air Service in 100 Objects - David Morris - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Fleet Air Arm and Royal Naval Air Service in 100 Objects - David Morris - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Only six years after man had successfully flown for the first time with controlled, powered flight in 1903, the Royal Navy could already see the potential of taking flying machines to sea. Initially used to extend the view from the ship’s crow’s nest, the aircraft at sea would become one of the most influential strides forward in the history of the Royal Navy.From aircraft and technology to training, language and recreation, the flying branch of the Royal Navy has long had its own specific set of objects, rules and traditions. Delving in to the official archives of the Fleet Air Arm Museum and the wider National Museum of the Royal Navy, David Morris tells this incredible story through a selection of 100 significant objects.

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Enfield Through Time - Stephen Sellick - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Enfield Through Time - Stephen Sellick - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Enfield is on the northern edge of Greater London, with the green belt to the north. The area covered within this book is King George V & William Girling reservoirs to the East, the M25 to the north, the northern part of Edmonton to the south and to the west the university at Trent, Cockfosters. It has been for a long time an agriculture and nursery area, that in Victorian times started to move over to light industry, with the improvement of transport. The contrasting photographs in this book vary from being taken in the exact spot the original photographer took his picture, to the other side of the road because of obstructions, to two from radically different viewpoints. Most of the pictures have landmarks that tally in the old and new pictures, but there are some with landmarks that are minimal.

DKK 237.00
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Space Exploration - Carolyn Collins Petersen - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Space Exploration - Carolyn Collins Petersen - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Humanity has always looked to the stars, but it hasn’t been until relatively recently that we have managed to travel into space. Carolyn Collins Petersen takes us on a journey from the first space pioneers and their work, through the First World War-led technological advances in rocketry that formed the basis for the Space Age, to the increasing corporate interest in space. This detailed examination of our steps into space is viewed from our potential future there – on Mars to be exact – and considers how we will reach that point.The author concludes with our current advances and our immediate ambitions in space exploration. The future and its scientific possibilities are enthralling: who will be the first to step on Mars? Will matter/antimatter annihilations take us to the Kuiper Belt, or will it be ion propulsion? What is the Alcubierre Warp Drive? Will it take us to the stars?

DKK 120.00
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Welsh Military Airfields Through Time - Alan Phillips - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Welsh Military Airfields Through Time - Alan Phillips - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

It was inevitable that certain areas of Wales would be chosen as locations for airfields in times of conflict and war. The nation''s distance from Continental Europe made it relatively safe from enemy attack and, therefore, ideally suited for training. It also due to its location on the western side of Great Britain near to the Western Approaches and the Atlantic convoys that the airfields in Pembrokeshire, as a peninsula, were ideally suited for Coastal Command operations into the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay. In Wales there were thirty-seven airfields and four relief landing grounds, eleven of which were operationally involved in air defence and maritime operations. Also there were numerous temporary landing areas attached to army camps associated with pre D-Day landings, which do not count as proper airfields.

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Buses: Another Life - Malcolm Batten - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Buses: Another Life - Malcolm Batten - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

What happens to old buses at the end of their career, when they are replaced by newer vehicles? Some inevitably go to scrap, especially if they have been cannibalised for spares. Some see further service with other bus companies. A few lucky ones pass directly into preservation. But many find further employment with so-called ‘Non-PSV’ users; some of these may continue to carry passengers, perhaps as works transport or for a community group. Some may be used for driver training. However, others will be converted to fulfil a whole variety of roles – catering or hospitality vehicles; advertising promotional vehicles; ambulances; mobile homes; playbuses; horseboxes; vehicle transporters, and more.This book looks at a variety of old buses and coaches and the varied roles they have fulfilled over the last fifty years.

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East End Born and Bled - Jeff Jones - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

East End Born and Bled - Jeff Jones - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

No other place in the world has been so important to boxing, or produced so many champions, as the small area of London’s East End. But how did this specific part of Britain shape boxing, and what was behind the national and international success of these fighters?In this book, Londoner Jeff Jones tells the unique story of the development of modern boxing. Starting with the unregulated bare-knuckle fights in the docks and taverns, he covers the codification of boxing’s rules, the increasing sophistication of training and technique, the involvement of bookmakers and the underworld, and the development of a lucrative worldwide sport in which men from London’s East End still take part as boxers and promoters, three centuries after the sport’s beginnings in their local streets.

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Shropshire Airfields Through Time - Alec Brew - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Shropshire Airfields Through Time - Alec Brew - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Though there were airfields in Shropshire during the First World War, at Shawbury, Tern Hill and Monkmoor, it was in the late 1930s that a massive building programme began to dot the county with new RAF airfields, mostly for training purposes, until there were over sixteen – in some cases they were so close together that their circuits overlapped.Since the Second World War the number has fallen away, but Shawbury, Tern Hill, Cosford and little Chetwynd are still used by the RAF, and Sleap has been revived for general aviation. In most cases the others have returned to agriculture and a few to industry, with derelict control towers and other iconic buildings remaining as lost sentinels of the days when young men trained to carry the fight into the dark skies of Germany.

DKK 161.00
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National Bus Company Service Vehicles 1972-1986: Another Look - Michael Hitchen - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

National Bus Company Service Vehicles 1972-1986: Another Look - Michael Hitchen - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The erstwhile National Bus Company was the largest bus company in the world and like any large organisation, it required auxiliary vehicles to support its core activities.Formed of around thirty-six local constituent companies and the ‘NATIONAL’ Central Activities Group, each company had its own Service Vehicle fleet to support its operations, varying from Heavy Vehicle Recovery to Driver Training and every other facet to keep the fleet operational. Well photographed and documented were the former PSV conversions, Driver trainers, Tree loppers or Towing buses, as these were based on a bus and attracted the attention of photographers and enthusiasts. In an era when film was precious, the commercial vehicles owned by the NBC were often ignored, making photographs very rare.In this second volume we look a more examples used by the NBC between 1972 and its demise in 1986.

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TAC in the 1980s - Adrian Symonds - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

TAC in the 1980s - Adrian Symonds - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Tactical Air Command, based in the United States itself, held the majority of the USAF’s tactical air power. The wartime role for most TAC units was to deploy their assets to regional USAF commands, primarily to the main Cold War ‘front’ Commands, USAFE and PACAF, as well as to Latin America and the Caribbean with the Southern Air Division, and to the Middle East with the Rapid Deployment Force (later Central Command). Therefore, overseas deployments were routine for many TAC units.However, not all TAC units had to deploy for their war mission. In 1979 TAC absorbed the remnants of what remained of Aerospace Defense Command, giving TAC the air defence mission. TAC also oversaw the USAF Tactical Fighter Weapons Center, which provided US and Allied aircrews with the world’s most realistic training, over the expansive Nevada ranges.Take a step inside the day-to-day operations of TAC in the 1980s.

DKK 159.00
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Prestwick Airport Through Time - Peter C. Brown - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Prestwick Airport Through Time - Peter C. Brown - Bog - Amberley Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Prestwick Airport is a major international freight hub and is the only airport in Scotland to be connected by rail. It also has the second-longest runway in Scotland, accommodating all types of aircraft with no requirement for future extension. Prestwick sits in third place after Glasgow International and Edinburgh Airports in passenger traffic terms, and in 2016 was selected to become one of Europe’s first spaceports.Its aviation history began in 1913 when it was developed as a pilot training airfield for the Royal Flying Corps, and during the Second World War it was involved in fitting and maintaining military aircraft delivered from the USA. Post-war, it retained a military role, building STOL (short takeoff and landing) utility aircraft, while a civilian airport grew alongside to accommodate commercial air travel. Prestwick quickly achieved the status of the transatlantic gateway to Scotland, prompting major expansion work in the 1960s to keep pace with the rising number of passengers.

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