[WWI] DeHavilland - Sky Fever

[NEIL CRAWFORD]

Just a note to tell you how much I've been enjoying this book
by Sir Geoffrey De Havilland. It's fascinating to read how he made his
first aeroplane, then learned to fly it, step by step. 
Lots of OT stuff, and what interests me is his love of nature, I'm
having 
a butterfly period so Sir Geoffrey is definitely the bees knees.
I must quote his impression of Udet who he met in Berlin during the
late twenties "Udet was a rather tough type with very limited technical 
knowledge, in fact smallish both physically and mentally"
DeHavilland say's he could hardly imagine a less suitable man for the
high position he held. 
Another interesting thing, I remember a while back I called the DH4 the
Mosquito of WW1, in fact it was the other way around, here's DeHavilland
on the 
Mosquito idea: "Our minds naturally went back to the DH4 of the 1914
War,
the high-speed bomber that could outfly most enemy fighters"

I got this book from my brothers remainder shop, so I'm sure it must be
easily available. It was written in 1960, published in 1979 and this
edition
is from 1999. DeHavillands ideas about the future are amusing, 46 years
ago
aviation was still exciting, and space travel was just beginning.
Strange
that the big advances happened in computers and telecom, and
aviation/space
stagnated, the only certain thing about the future is that you never
know
what will happen!
/Neil
NB. nothing, awful weather here, tropical heat and sunshine.
NL. Tracy Chapman
NR. Aeroplane Monthly on the rocks by the sea, bathing now and then,
life is hell.
ND. Carlsberg Black Gold