WRECKS & RELICS 16TH EDITION : The Biennial Survey of Preserved, Instructional and Derelict Airframes in the U.K.and Ireland
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Characteristics
Book cover finish | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
Condition | Used very good |
Number of pages | 336 |
Published date | 1998 |
Language | English |
Size | 15.5 x 25 x 1.5 cm |
Collection | Wrecks & Relics |
Author | Ken Ellis |
Editor | Midland Publishing |
Description
WRECKS & RELICS : The Biennial Survey of Preserved, Instructional and Derelict Airframes in the U.K.and Ireland
Wrecks & Relics is put together using the best information available to the author. Every effort is made to be as accurate as possible. However, neither the author nor Midland Publishing Limited can be held responsible for any errors or changes that may occur in the location or status of aircraft or places listed.
ABOUT WRECKS & RELICS :
Want suggestions of aviation museums to visit? Need to know about the aviation heritage of Yorkshire? Would you like to see an airworthy Spitfire? Are there any Boeing 727s in the UK? Wrecks & Relics can answer all these questions and many more.
Covering more than 750 locations, Wrecks and Relics has an enviable reputation as a comprehensive touring guide: providing details of visitor attractions large and small, including major exhibits, locations, opening times, contact points and websites.
700 aircraft types and over 5,000 individual aero planes are detailed, including warbirds, classic, vintage and modern military types, out-of service prop liners and jets, restoration projects, replicas, derelicts and ‘long forgotten’ airframes.
[…] With over 190 color illustrations, Wrecks & Relics is the trusted reference source on the UK and Ireland’s aviation heritage and is highly regarded by museum curators, restorers, operators and enthusiasts alike.
(Source : crecy.co.uk)
Preface
I kicked-off with W&R4, published by the late lamented Merseyside Aviation Society in August 1974. That makes this edition my 13th. I'm not superstitious - touch wood - but another piece of maths means that 1999 (the 'off' year) will have seen me at the helm of W&R for 25 years. There were 86 pages in W&R4, now there are 352, all of which proclaim how far the aviation heritage movement and those who follow it, have come. This edition, like the last six, has been published by the Midland Counties/ Midland Publishing team at Earl Shilton.
As anniversaries of this sort don't grow on trees I've allowed a little wandering down memory lane by way of a small celebration of organic longevity. Selected locations have a little flashback' to W&R4 appended to remind us all of what things were like. I do realize that some readers weren't even born then, but they may appreciate a bit of gratuitous ancient history!
Within the pages can be found the lows and highs of the world of aviation preservation, restoration, conservation and heritage. In the past, we have presented a résumé of these, but as these are to be found in depth within the location-by-location review, this section has been withdrawn. One item escapes because of this and deserves amplification here. During 1997, another anniversary was reached - the British Aviation Preservation Council was 30. To celebrate this, a remarkable country-wide event was staged the first-ever UK National Aviation Heritage Week. BAPC members, large and small, undertook a wide variety of special events. This was supported throughout by FlyPast magazine and I was proud to have been a part of the team co-ordinating things. Another 'week' is planned for 1999.
In 1989, Mike Bursell took the bull by the horns and edited European Wrecks & Relics, published by Midland Counties. Mike has passed the baton over to Otger van der Kooij in the Netherlands, and as this is typed, he is in the throes of getting the Second Edition ready, including the flood of material from the recently 'liberated' Eastern European countries. This should appear later this summer and is to be regarded as compulsory reading!
Deeply Fraught IV, my stalwart 'Mac', has endured several mid-life upgrades to permit the continued refining of presentation of both narrative and data. As can be seen below, a new bolt-on' ECM*-pod has allowed W&R to spring into the world of communicating via electrons. The internet brings with it many advantages, but from a historian's and publisher's point of view also brings lot of disadvantages. It becomes ever more difficult to trace what is original material and what is third-hand, or worse. Readers are welcome to e-mail, but I would point out that without a terrestrial address such material will not be considered for use within W&R and there will not be a 'credit' in the Acknowledgements section. The growing band of people who lend their support to W&R receives mention in the pages that follow. Two others, however, deserve 'pole position', Pam for her patience and understanding and 'Fleas' the cat for the exact opposite!
Ken Ellis
April 1998
Ethereally Communicated Musings!