FLYERS Enthralling WWII Aviator Tales

216 Pages·2014·2.466 MB·English

by  Walker, Mike A

Flyers

A Collection of Enthralling WWII Aviator Tales

Compiled and Edited by Mike Walker
This Digital Edition Text © 2014 M.A.Walker
All Rights Reserved

Dedication…..
To all members, past and present, of The Royal Air Force and the Air Forces of the British
Commonwealth, Europe, USA and USSR with particular mention to the air and ground
crews who fought magnificently through two world wars to ensure that those who came
after them could live in a free world.
…..and, thanks
To The Royal Air Force Flying Review and its contributors, for supplying essential
weekly nourishment to aviation enthusiasts during the most exciting period of aeronautical
expansion and innovation.

Preface
The RAF Flying Review, sub-titled ‘The Journal of The RAF’, was in existence, in
various formats, for just over a quarter of a century, commencing publication in 1944 and
ceasing, much greater in size but a shadow of its former self, in 1970.

During the first 19 years of its life, this monthly magazine truly reflected the public face of
the Royal Air Force with a mix of information about foreign air forces and assessments of
their latest aircraft, detailed cutaway drawings of aircraft, colour profiles, technical ‘gen’
and future developments in the world of aviation, all alongside RAF Service News.

Its content was always interesting to those who were, in the parlance of the 1950s, ‘air-
minded’; the most keenly anticipated articles of each issue being the riveting first-hand
accounts of the experiences and personal reminiscences of the aviators, both Allied and
Axis, who played their parts in the two world wars.

Now long out-of-print, a selection of these historic and exciting stories have been
unearthed, edited and compiled for the first time into this digital edition by Mike Walker,
an ‘air-minded’ ex-RAF airman whose aviation interest can be traced back to sometime in
1952 when, as a 5 year-old, standing on the perimeter-track of RAF Ismailia in Egypt, he
watched the landing of a detachment of Vampires from No.3 Squadron.