Discover 3 authoritative scottish aviation history books by Charles E. MacKay
How Scotland’s great engineering house went airborne. Drawing on original company archives and Admiralty papers, this study traces Beardmore from Sopwith shipboard fighters and Handley Page bombers to HMS Argus—the first true flat‑deck carrier. It documents the W.B. aircraft family, the Inflexible, and the Typhoon/Cyclone/Tornado engines of the R101 era, with production totals, contracts, and rare factory photography.
The first source‑driven account of Clydeside aviation in WWI. From Vincent Lunardi and Percy Pilcher to RFC training fields, RNAS coastal stations, and the industrial mobilisation that turned shipyards into aircraft factories, it maps pilot training at Montrose, home‑defence flights, and shipboard fighter trials using squadron diaries, factory records, and local archives.
Clydeside between the wars: airlines at Renfrew, the Scottish Flying Club, engineering breakthroughs at Beardmore and Weir, and the build‑up to rearmament. Using timetables, club logs, and engineering papers, it traces routes, aerodromes, and accidents, follows 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron to the edge of the Spitfire era, and charts early Scottish helicopter experiments.
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