Shipbucket

My first book, The Admiralty and the Helicopter, has been published this week.

The book charts the development of the Admiralty’s requirements and the numerous projects and design studies drawn up to fulfil them from the early 1950s to the present day. These range from the cancelled Bristol Type 191 tandem-rotor helicopter and the tiny Fairey Ultra Light of the 1950s, the Westland Wasp, Wessex and Sea King of the 1960s, the aborted plans to acquire Chinooks to the more recent Westland Lynx, EHI Merlin and Leonardo Wildcat. Also examined are the weapons deployed on these helicopters, including anti-submarine homing torpedoes and sea-skimming anti-ship missiles developed to equip the Fleet Air Arm’s helicopters. The book is also of interest to naval historians and features such as strategy, ASW doctrine and ship-aircraft interfacing issues.
There is quite a bit of unpublished material in the book and features photographs and line drawings, some of them done my myself.

The Admiralty and the Helicopter retails directly from Blue Envoy or from the various specialist aviation bookshops around the UK.

Chris Gibson (who runs Blue Envoy Press) aims for next day delivery when he's at home or despatch at weekends when he's away.

The price per copy is £11.95

Postage and packing (in a stiffy) by Royal Mail (First Class) or airmail for overseas is:

UK addresses - £1.90
Europe - £4.90
USA and Canada - £7.10
Australia/NZ/RoW - £7.50

As ever, if he can get the postage cheaper, he will refund the difference.

Payments by Paypal are preferred, please send payment, with a note of your address to: blue.envoy.servicesATgooglemail.com (replace 'AT' with @)




(Thanks to Ian and Gollevainen letting me advertise this here)

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Great to hear it has been finally published!

Congratulations on this first book, hope in a line of more books to come.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

So this is the book I will want for Christmas, good to know.

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

Congratulations

Congratulations from me also, Hood.

Yes indeed Congratulations! I definetly will try to buy this thing.

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
New AU project "Aravala"

Well done James, first in a series of wonderful treatises hopefully leading to worldwide recognition.

Who knows 'arises Sir James' ?

Many thanks for all the kind words!

The book features several vector drawings by myself. I think everyone will find something of interest in the book, whether for SB or FD scale ideas and of course the general technical history and the background of the ships and doctrines.
The origins of the AW101 Merlin have never been covered indepth in print before, much of the material is fresh from the Westland archives.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

That's awesome! It's going on my "To Read" list.

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Drawings signed both (Miklania) and (M.Morris)