Radio controlled helicopters is a huge & growing market & the recent developments in the design & manufacture of new models have resulted in wide range of choice which can bewilder newcomers to the hobby
- a dazzling array of helicopters radio equipment & accessories. This book guides the beginner through the maze. If you are considering taking up this fascinating aspect of model flying it provides all the essential information you need to take the right decisions. It takes you through all the stages from choice of model & radio control elementary flying & basic aerobatics routine maintenance legal aspects of the hobby & joining a local club. In these pages you will find everything you need to know to choose build & fly a radio-controlled helicopter.
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Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drama sucha s directing writing & sound design with media history & communication theory. From the early audio broadcasts of 1914 & the development of General Electrics New York WGY station in 1922 through Orson Welles startling Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938 to more recent radio spoofs & the subversive challenge from media guerillas Tim Crook explores the history & contemporary practice of radio drama. Challenging the belief that sound drama is a blind medium Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction & reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts & analysing radio broadcasts from America Britain Canada & Australia the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed sinc the first audiophonic production & evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins & immediate access to programmes on the Internet. ...

Radionics is defined as a method of diagnosis & therapy which is primarily concerned with the utilization of subtle force fields & energies for the purpose of investigating & combating the causes of disease which ravage humanity & the other kingdoms of nature. But in examining the history & development of radionics from the pioneering work of Dr Albert Abrams & Ruth Drown to the latest experimental work at the de la Warr Laboratories David Tansley discovered a curious paradox. In literature on the subject & in the rate books which provide the very core of radionic therapeutic measures there are plenty of references to mans physical organic systems but little regarding the probability of underlying force fields which might govern & determine the health of the physical form. This book represents an informed endeavour to redress the balance by providing a simple yet practical outline of the subtle anatomy of man. The theory is not new: Abrams diagnosed at a distance & Drown treated absent patients. David Tansley believes that the time is ripe for radionics to bear witness to an energy field of a more subtle nature: that is in fact its innate purpose. ...

This is a fast smart accessible novel which will be lapped up by young fans of vampire-lit & urban gothic
- but with a witty new
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Meet the Radleys
- Peter Helen & their teenage children Clara & Rowan live in a typical suburban English town. They are an everyday
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The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight operates six Spitfires two Hurricanes a Lancaster a Dakota & two Chipmunks which perform at flying displays across Britain every summer season. Photographer Keith Wilson has been granted full official access to ' The Flight' to give a comprehensive pictorial insight into all its activities
- from the aircraft & their crews to ground crews & support staff & from display planning to major winter overhauls. This book is the closest you will ever come to being on ' The Flight' without actually joining the RAF!
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The recent 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain combined with the threat of significant cuts to the current RAF have highlighted the importance of Fighter Command in the early days of World War II once more. The role of the few as described by Churchill during the Battle of Britain has been the subject of much mythologizing both at the time & in the years since. This title will put Fighter Command in context; describing the lack of funding & attention which it received during the interwar period until it was almost too late. The myth of the fighter pilot will be humanized with first-hand accounts"ed which put nervous but brave human beings from all walks of life in the cockpit. Although the Battle of Britain may not have in itself been the decisive encounter that it has historically been portrayed as the moral victory won by the RAF the victory that proved that Germany could be defeated was just as important as a military-strategic victory. ...

In 1968 a decision was made to combine the RAF Commands that had become famous in World War Two. Thus Fighter Bomber Coastal Air Support & Signals Commands were combined into the single Strike Comm&. This amalgamation was to see service throughout the remaining years of the Cold War & action in the Falklands & the Middle East in Operations Desert Shield Desert Storm & Granby. This book looks at the origins of the World War Two Commands & their outline histories until 1968. The organisational change caused re-equipment base changes & increasing economic constraints
- an all-too familiar story. The Royal Navy was now responsible for the UKs nuclear deterrent in the form of their Polaris submarines so the RAFs V-Bomber Force were now relegated to tanker operations with the exception of the lone Vulcan that was sent to the Falklands conflict. The Commands fleet of fast jets became more adaptable with single types able to assume the roles of fighter bomber reconnaissance & maritime attack. The aircraft also become multi-national in their design & manufacture as Britains post-war lead in aircraft design had been frittered away by years of thoughtless government & our aircraft manufacturing devolved into a single company. Apart from the brilliant Harrier which the US continues to develop & build other aircraft flown by the Command were from European syndicates the Tornado & Jaguar being examples. The US supplied the transports in the form of the faithful Hercules & Europe most of the helicopter fleet. This book looks at the operations that took place during Strike Commands existence the aircraft they flew & the men who flew them. It is a tribute to the fast-dwindling strike power of the Royal Air Force.
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Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the truth
- just after dusk on moonlit nights either side of the full moon planes from the 138 & 161 Squadrons would take off on top secret missions to the heart of the war-torn Continent. They had to fly low & without lights in order to identify drop zones & deliver the supplies & secret agents that would help the resistance forces liberate Europe. But despite the attention of Churchill & George VI the airfields secrets have long remained an untold chapter in the story of the war. Based on over a decades extensive research RAF Tempsford: Churchills Most Secret Airfield is filled with intrigue suspense heartbreak & humour. It is a fascinating account of a deadly serious business.
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The uprising in Libya in the spring of 2011 took the world by surprise. The Gaddafi regimes brutal attempts at suppressing the uprising however soon prompted the international community to respond. NATO agreed to impose a no-fly zone across Libya which was led by Britain France & the USA. For the British Prime Minister David Cameron the deployment of RAF & Royal Navy assets in support of UN Resolution 1973 came at a time when severe cuts to the UKs defence spending were in the process of being enacted. With the Royal Navy aircraft carriers & their Harrier jets no longer available would the UK be able to mount operations 3 000 miles away? In this the first book to analyse the Libyan campaign David Sloggett details the causes of the uprising & examines each stage of the war through to its termination with the death of Colonel Gaddafi. In conclusion Dr Sloggett considers the future prospects for a post-Gaddafi Libya & more significantly how NATO in general & Britain in particular will respond to similar events in the future. ...