AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 12

AVIATION

• * LIBRARY'S WEEKLY DISPLAY Boots on aviation constitute a display in the lending department of the Public Library this week. _ There is a fairly comprehensive section of books on aeronautics. One series is said to be very good. These are: ‘ Aero-Engines (Inspection of, before Plight)’, a course for “C ” science, by 11. P. Barlow; ‘ Aero-En-gines (Inspection of during Manufacture, Overhaul, and Test)’, a course for the “ D ” License, by A. N. Barrett ; and ‘ Instruments (Repair, Overhaul, Testing, and Calibration of Aircraft)’, a course for the “ X ” license, by R. W. Sloley. A rather lengthier work is 1 The Handbook of Aeronautics,” by Swan. Other works on the subject are: ‘ Airsense,’ by W. 0. Manning; ‘ An Elementary Course of Navigation,’ by C. W. Hewett; ‘An Hour of Aviation,’ by MacMillan; ‘Fly With Me,’ by Davis and Spngg; ‘ Plight To-day,’ by J. L. Nayler; ‘ The Complete Course for Commercial Flying License,’ by W. Lawrence Hope: and ‘ The Art of Flying,’ by MacMillan.

Works on aerial navigation are ‘ How to Find Your Way In the Air,’ by Ferguson, and ‘ Simplified Aerial Navigation,’ by J. A. M'Mullen. Other miscellaneous works on aeronautics are: ‘ The Autogyro and How To Fly It,’ by Reginald Brie; ‘Gliding and Soaring,’ by Percival and Mat White; and ‘ Motorless Flight,’ by Ashwell-Cook;. ‘ Cruisers of the Air ’ (from the time of Roger Bacon to 1931), by C. J. Hylander; and ‘Parachutes for Airmen,’ by Charles Dixon; Books on air experiences are as follow : —‘ Skywards,’ by Rear-admiral Byrd; ‘Flying for News,’ by Larry Rue; ‘ Scott’s Book,’ by Scott, of Centenary air race fame; ‘ Flying Adventures,’ by Walter Mittelholzer; ‘ A Rabbit in the Air,’ by David Garnett; 1 Sea Plane Solo,’ by Chichester; ‘ Capetown to Clyde,’ by Richard Humble; ‘ Around the World in Eight Days,’ by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty; ‘ Pacific Flight,’ by P. G. Taylor (an associate of Kingsford Smith); ‘ War Birds, the Story of an Unknown Aviator ’; ‘ The _ Red Knight of Germany ’; and ‘Air Adventures,’ by W. B. Seabrook. Books an aerial warfare and defence are; ‘Behind the Smoke Screen,’ by Brigadier-general P. R. C. Groves; and ‘ Britain’s Air' Policy,’ by Jonathan Griffin.

There are several new fictional and non-fictional books on _ aviation. ‘Smithy,’ by Alexander Smith, i$ the autobiography of an airman. ‘ The Book of the by J. L. Pritchard, is a description of the development of the aeroplane and of aviation. ‘ Sagittarius Rising,’ by Cecil Lewis, is a novel of aviation based on experience. Of ‘ Pylon,’ by William Faulkner, it is said that “ By writing about fliers and flying machines he nas indeed made his subject indistinguishable from the theme of flight into the life of action which has been one of the three or four dominating themes in contemporary fiction, and he has given to the treatment of that theme an interest and power which one had believed that it was no longer capable of sustaining.” Finally, ‘ Night Flight, by Antoinne de Saint Exupery, is the best novel on aviation of the last five je*rs.