Aviation History Book Collections

Books by Charles E. MacKay, based on over 40 years of archival research, arranged by subject.

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• Aviation Biography

  4 titles

  Lives in aviation, from test pilot Eric Brown and the Schneider Trophy patron Lucy Lady Houston to Percy Pilcher and Dieter Dengler.

• WWII Aviation

  4 titles

  Archival studies of the Luftwaffe and German aviation 1919 to 1945: procurement, underground factories, armament and the Fedden Mission.

• Scottish Aviation History

  3 titles

  Scottish aviation manufacturing from Clydeside in the Great War to the inter-war years, including Beardmore, Weir and the Renfrew scene.

• WWI Aviation

  3 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 History

  2 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 History

  2 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 Seeds

  1 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 North

  1 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 1947

  1 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 1803

  1 title

  Dorothy Wordsworth's journal of the 1803 tour of Scotland with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, now in its seventh printing.

The complete catalogue: all 22 titles

Series: This Was the Enemy · Clydeside Aviation · German Aircraft in the Great War