CCI Digest 818 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) RE: Into Thin Air by Nick Forder 2) Books by Nick Forder 3) Coal Aston AAP by Nick Forder 4) (no subject) by GaGin1@aol.com 5) RE: Into Thin Air by GaGin1@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:23:16 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "'cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Into Thin Air Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F87E8@EXCHANGE> 'The Fringe of the Clouds : The Story of an RAF Doctor' by P Livingston is worth reading too, though it isn't the WW1 medical history the bookseller's catalogue claimed it was ! The creation of the RAF medical service is quite interesting. It seems that both the Admiralty and the War Office were of the opinion that the RAF medical provision could continue to come from the Navy and Army. This took some time to sort out, and the RAF medical service was formed after 1 April 1918. I discovered this while researching a group of medals (1914-15 Star to Pte RAMC, Pair to Sgt RAF). The recipient didn't appear on the 1 April 1918 RAF Muster Roll (which needs reprinting - perhaps the RAF Museum and the Naval & Military Press could get together ?). Enquiries at the RAMC Museum produced a draft article under preparation by the curator. Nick ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:29:32 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "Cci (E-mail)" Subject: Books Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F87E9@EXCHANGE> Latest from the Naval and Military Press in their reprint series is Rosher's 'In the Royal Naval Air Service' (as a paperback for £8.50) and paperback editions of both 'War in the Air' and the Naval official history. These are available at the bargain price of £18.00 a volume (or c£35 for hardbacks). Anyone care to write an indepth review of 'War in the Air' and its reliability as a source of information ? Nick PS Perhaps these books are something that C&CI could stock ? I spend far too much money with N&MP already.... Perhaps, also, N&MP could be encouraged to reprint some of the harder to get squadron histories etc ? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:05:15 -0000 From: Nick Forder To: "Cci (E-mail)" Cc: "'naylon@moore652.freeserve.co.uk'" Subject: Coal Aston AAP Message-ID: <059A77A01B10D611B19C00065B19D2F33F87ED@EXCHANGE> Does anyone know anything about the Aircraft Acceptance Park at Coal Aston (Sheffield) ? I know that the initial batches of DH9 bombers made by National Aircraft Factory No 2 at Heaton Chapel were taken there by rail (from March 1918), until No 15 AAP opened at Alexandra Park (May 1918). But what of the Avros made in Miles Platting and Newton Heath ? Does anyone know if these went by road/rail to Coal Aston too ? Nick ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:52:10 EST From: GaGin1@aol.com To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <15.a1bc87d.2b7eb0fa@aol.com> Hi, All, Could anyone with the original WIA look in the index for 1918 and tell me what squadrons besdies Sqn 211 made up what Wing, May-July? Lannie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:56:42 EST From: GaGin1@aol.com To: cci@mustang.sr.unh.edu Subject: RE: Into Thin Air Message-ID: Nick, I have Armstrong's Aviation Medicine here, too, but have not yet devled into it, not to mention Doug Robinson's THE DANGEROUS SKY. Lannie ------------------------------ End of CCI Digest 818 *********************