Even though the classic de Havilland Tiger Moth has to be considered one of the most important aircraft in the history of British aviation it rarely receives the popular respect it deserves & is usually in the shadow of more glamourous types such as the Supermarine Spitfire & de Havilland&8217;s own Mosquito Despite this without the availability of thousands of Tiger Moths to train a constant stream of pilots for military & civilian service Britain & her Commonwealth would have been in real trouble during WWII & most pilots who would go on to fly the numerous Allied aircraft types of the Second World War would have &8216;learnt their trade&8217; on this classic training aircraft ...

Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was one of the world s true pioneers of powered flight a man as important to British aviation as the Wright brothers were to America From humble beginnings he went on to develop some of the finest aircraft to see action during the First World War before going on to create the illustrious company that bore his name All of this began in his youth when without experience plans or instructions he embarked on the ambitious task of not only building his very first flying machine but also constructing the engine to power it This book explores the influences & milestones of his early years before going on to examine his company De Havilland Enterprises in detail Amongst the momentous machines that he had a hand in creating were the Gipsy Moth & Tiger Moth
- two iconic aircraft types destined to set a variety of aviation records whilst being piloted by de Havilland himself Another highlight of the company's history saw the esteemed aviatrix Amy Johnson fly solo from England to Australia in a Gipsy Moth in 1930 The high-performance designs & monocoque wooden construction methods passed through the supremely elegant DH91 Albatross into the Mosquito The company then followed up these successes with the high-performing Hornet fighter which pioneered the use of metal-wood & metal-metal bonding techniques eventually resulting in the world s first jet airliner the fabulous Comet Every one of De Havilland s products are listed & recorded in detail here as are all the designs that never left the drawing board & the products of De Havilland's companies in Australia & Canada Fully illustrated throughout this volume is sure to be highly prized amongst serious collectors
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Building on the success of de Havilland&8217;s earlier twin engined Dove small passenger aircraft the company&8217;s attempt to produce a slightly larger airliner resulted in the first flight of the Heron in May 1950 Capable of comfortably carrying 17 passengers the Heron had a longer fuselage & wings than its predecessor & employed an additional pair of Gipsy Queen engines providing reassurance for crew & passengers alike Early models of the aircraft were produced with a fixed undercarriage but the Mk II variant introduced a number of upgrades & improvements most noticeably being the adoption of a retractable undercarriage with the resultant reduction in drag providing a welcome performance boost Although only 150 were built Heron&8217;s served with both the RAF & Royal Navy ...

The de Havilland DH98 Mosquito is a twin-engine shoulder-winged multi-role combat aircraft The crew of two pilot & navigator sat side by side It served during & after the Second World War It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era whose frame was constructed almost entirely of wood & was nicknamed The Wooden Wonder
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Scheme 1 XK624 CFS Little Rissington September 1972 Scheme 2 Vampire J-28C Swedish Historic Flight First entering RAF service in 1952 the De Havilland Vampire T11 trainer was the final UK variant of Britain&8217;s second operational jet fighter & the first advanced jet trainer to adopt a side-by-side seating configuration Unusually the forward section of the fuselage was constructed of plywood adopting manufacturing techniques perfected on the famous wartime Mosquito ...

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De Profundis & Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters & poetry in Penguin Classics edited & introduced by Colm Toibin At the start of 1895 Oscar Wilde was the toast of London widely feted for his most recent stage success An Ideal Husband But by May of the same year Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour ' De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison & describes his new shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness' This edition also

Includes:: further letters to his wife his friends the Home Secretary newspaper editors & his lover Lord Alfred Douglas
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- himself as well as ' The Ballad of Reading Gaol' the heart-rending poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved This Penguin edition is based on the definitive Complete Letters edited by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland Colm Toibin's introduction explores Wilde's duality in love politics & literature This edition also

Includes:: notes on the text & suggested further reading Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin His three volumes of short fiction The Happy Prince Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & A House of Pomegranates together with his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray won him a reputation as a writer with an original talent a reputation enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies
- Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest Colm Toibin is the author of five novels including The Blackwater Lightship & The Master & a collection of stories Mothers & Sons His essay collection Love in a Dark Time Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar appeared in 2002 He is the editor of The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction






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With an Introduction & Notes by Anne Varty Royal Holloway University of London De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent & bitter reproach from prison to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving & characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life which was published anonymously in 1898 This collection also

Includes:: the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism & two of his Platonic dialogues The Decay of Lying & The Critic as Artist

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