Aviation history books by Charles E. MacKay
22 researched titles, mostly on Scottish, military and naval aviation, posted from Glasgow. Browse all 22 books
Newest title
The Fedden Mission to Germany Final Report
Roy Fedden's account of the British inspection of the German aircraft industry in 1945, with drawings of projects later carried into post-war American aircraft.
- Editor
- C. Barrowman
- Published
- 21 October 2026
- Pages
- 214
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781066634514
Also new this year
This Was The Enemy Volume Three: Supplement
A supplement on German aviation and the Luftwaffe in the Second World War: Luftwaffe statistics, the Goering de-briefs, the Limoges raid, aid to Japan and more. 218 pages, 227 illustrations.
Published 11 August 2026
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- Aviation Biography4 titles
Lives in aviation, from test pilot Eric Brown and the Schneider Trophy patron Lucy Lady Houston to Percy Pilcher and Dieter Dengler
- WWII Aviation4 titles
Archival studies of the Luftwaffe from 1919 to 1945: aircraft procurement, underground factories, armament and front-line types
- Scottish Aviation History3 titles
Scottish aviation manufacturing from Clydeside in the Great War to the inter-war years, including Beardmore, Weir and the Renfrew scene
- WWI Aviation3 titles
Original research into German and British air power 1914 to 1918, the Fokker D.VII, RFC and RNAS procurement and Ministry of Munitions records
- Industrial History2 titles
Company histories: the Morris Furniture Company of Glasgow, from furnishing the Queen Mary to Highball casings, Mosquito plywood and Cierva rotor blades, and the pioneering all-metal aircraft of Adolf Rohrbach, whose stressed-skin construction influenced Boeing, Douglas and Northrop
- Military History2 titles
The British nuclear deterrent from Tube Alloys to the V-bombers, Blue Steel and Polaris, and the 1945 statements on the atomic bomb
- Helicopter History: The Sycamore Seeds1 title
The helicopter from the Cierva autogyro and Focke Achgelis to the Weir W5, Sikorsky Hoverfly and Bristol Sycamore, researched from company records and contemporary publications with more than 300 rare pictures
- Jet Age Aviation: Sabres from the North1 title
Cold War jet operations, from the Canadair Sabre in RAF, RCAF and Luftwaffe service to Frank Whittle, early gas turbines, NATO deployment and reconnaissance over the Soviet Union
- Naval Aviation: Beardmore Built HMS Argus 1914 to 19471 title
HMS Argus, the world's first flat-deck aircraft carrier, built by Beardmore at Dalmuir, with its Royal Navy service from the first deck trials through Operation Torch and wartime aircraft delivery
- Travel Literature: Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland 18031 title
Dorothy Wordsworth's journal of the 1803 tour of Scotland with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, now in its seventh printing
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Series: This Was the Enemy · Clydeside Aviation
The historian
Charles E. MacKay has researched Scotland's aviation history since his first article appeared in Airfix Magazine in 1982.
Orders are posted from Glasgow.
About Charles and his researchFrom the research
- Scottish Aviation History Books: A Reader's Guide to Clydeside, Beardmore and HMS Argus24 August 2026
- Luftwaffe History Books: A Reader's Guide to German Aircraft, Jets and Industry, 1914-194524 August 2026
- HMS Argus: Beardmore's Flat-Deck Aircraft Carrier and the Making of Naval Aviation24 August 2026
Reviews
Reader and specialist reviews, credited to the publication or reviewer.
“... he also gives an account of much outfitting of hotels, among them Gleneagles and the Strand Palace, and ocean liners, including the Queens Mary and Elizabeth, a major contribution to the Utility scheme, and ... many other innovatory initiatives. ... historians of twentieth century British furniture will find many clues among his Shavings worth following up.”
Furniture History Society, on Shavings for Breakfast: The History of the Morris Furniture Company, Glasgow