Alright, I won’t look tomorrow.

Taken over completely in 1948, fully integrated by the summer of 1951.
Ambassador design started in 1943 when DH only had a stake in Airspeed, I forget how big.
Head of design team for the Sea Vixen was Tamblin.
Not going back to the book now but I think he designed the Heron.

Just dug this out from the bowels of the forum.
Nothing really to report but a couple of snippets here.

The Macchi was the MC72, intended for the 1931 race but not ready in time. 2 Fiat V12s on a common crankcase.

Couldn’t find anything in the Rotol book about who or when but,
I did find a pic of a MkIX Spit with contra-props!
That surprised me.

Originally posted by David Burke
It’s probably worth mentioning that the attrition rate for Sea Vixens in the last few years has been enormous. So unless your preserving it undercover or indeed in the air there is precious little chance that it will still exist in twenty years time.
Another point is that although it’s called DeHavilland’s last twin boomer , the vast majority were actually built in the Airspeed factory at Christchurch which is far removed from Hatfield !

Now we’re getting pedantic!
Hawker only built a handful of Typhoons, but they’re not referred to as Glosters.

Originally posted by ageorge
the cars themselves are nothing special – except for the fact that they were made from stainless steel , they bought in an American engine /gearbox unit and built the rest from other car manufacturers parts bins.

The entire bodyshell was fibreglass, built by Lotus and only clad in stainless. I think you’ll find the engine/box were Renault.

Bomber I’ve got but not read for years.
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse, also by Deighton wasn’t bad either.
Glide Path, Arthur C. Clarke.
Hammond Innes’, I think, first book which I’ve forgotten the name of.

Not tried the other two, but vague memories about Piece of Cake when it was on the telly.
Were there complaints about distortion of the truth, or similar? From the comments on this board, it would seem if there were any, they were aimed at the TV production, not the novel.
I’ll look out for them.

What I first remembered was a series called Fighter Squadron or similar which were production line novels and terrible.

None of these really answer the original question about the author.
It seems there are several one-offs but no good/successful series.

Mongu, you’re not allowed to complain about Saudi Arabia, they’re friendly, oppressive, cruel and dictatorial.

I heard Kildall went golfing, but same result anyway so who cares.

When Micro$oft got the contract, they went out and bought QDOS, standing for Quick and Dirty Operating System. Delete Q and replace with MS, tell everybody it stands for Disc Operating System and wait for the money to pour in. He even managed to get IBM to do any development work necessary but agree that it belonged to Microsoft.

I used DR DOS 6 until the first Pentium class processors appeared.
Full operating system, task switching, GUI and networking came on 2 floppies.
Whats XP, 1.1/2 Gig or so?