Pilot's Notes series reprinted

I came across two of these publications in my local Waterstones today.
They are reprints of the original Air Ministry Pilots' notes for aircraft in service in WW2, and come from www.crecy.co.uk , who apparently are THE aviation publishers. This is the first I've heard of them personally, but I dare say other forumites are more familiar with them.
The books are A5 sized paperbacks, are sealed in individual bags to protect them and cost £4.95 each.There are over sixty books in the series, and the rest of their catalogue is well worth a look too.

[ 18. August 2005, 09:28 AM: Message edited by: The_Historian ]

 

Great information. Did you get a chance to look inside? It looks like they are notes about the aircraft performance and not about the missions.

 

No, the only two volumes in the store were sealed in their own bags unfortunately. I think they're service manuals rather than aircraft histories, but none the less interesting for it.

 

While I was in the US Navy in 1987 I saw some interesting volumes in the library at the Navy Base in New London Connecticut. They were books that recorded the bomb damage assessment reports of the US VIII Air Corps daylight bombing missions during WWII. It was my last day in the service and I only got to look at them for an hour or so. What a great reference that would make now when you could compare the assessment reports from the Americans with the historical records of the Germans at the targets.

 

Absolutely right! I managed to download copies of both the USAAF Strategic Bombing Surveys a few years ago, and they were very enlightening. Haven't seen any German ones though.
Civil Defence authorities kept a record of bomb hits in Britain too, by County, and you can still see the ones for Scotland in the National Archives in Edinburgh. I consulted them a while back in connection with research I was doing, and couldn't believe how detailed they were. I can only imagine the German ones went one step further in detail.

 

If you still have those copies of the USAAF Strategic Bombing Surveys in form that can be electronically shared I would love to see them.

 

I'll look them out later.