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‘I’m sure something will turn up if you order it. Have faith, and go ahead. I sketched on the back of an envelope the hull that I should like …
The Max Factor The plane’s landing is perfect. Mine isn’t. As soon as the Hercules rolls to a halt the rear hatches are opened and the first boxes and …
Another of my jobs at Hullavington was to devise methods for teaching ‘nought feet navigation to pilots intruding into enemy territory when they would be unable to take their …
Convoy escorts, and anti-submarine patrols were out for long flights with continuous manoeuvring, such as square searches to be plotted. I took part in one sortie, in a Liberator …
I used to visit Philip Unwin to discuss the publication of the books I was producing, and it was a stock joke whenever an air-raid warning sounded while we …
I started writing on navigation. Flight published a set of articles describing a system of navigation I evolved for bombing pinpoint targets by star navigation. I used to get …
Sheila could not reconcile herself to, such as having to fetch the milk at the gate down the road because the milkman would not bring it up to the …
In Life, Some Things Are Black And White All penguins are wonderful creatures but out here the penguins of the wild are not like the rather sweet, domesticated zoo …