I use the ABE site, which covers many many different bookshops, and have always been totally satisfied. It also has the advantage od showing the different prices for second-hand books, so you can decide to have either a cheap copy in poor condition or pay more for good condition. Foe me here in Sweden it’s perfect, as I don’t have many aviation bookshops to choose from, and books ordered via ABE arrive through the post reasonably quickly.

Just checked out the Gothenburg prices – they need to change it to under a hundred quid for us poor suckers!

Coincidentally, just 4 days later the prototype Comet 3, G-ANLO, first flew at Hatfield. However the Comet 3 programme was abandoned as a result of the Comet 1 problems, and 10 Comet 3 airframes were scrapped.

Retouched Flack trio picture

Hi Any in Beds, sorry, I couldn’t resist giving one of your pictures the Photoshop treatment! Hope you like the improvement!

Must the total image file size conform to the 100kb limit or can each of the 5 be up to 100kb? (I just love high resolution!)

I think the secrecy agreement I signed for BAe 30 years ago still applies, so you won’t get anything from me! I also doubt that you’ll get much information from other than published sources on this, either!
However data processing in general is advancing at an alarmingly rapid rate, and I can tell you that there are up to 40 small distributed “computers” in a modern bus (road vehicle), communicating via networks with each other. They still cannot match what we were working on in the mid-70s though!

kodak, can you confirm that the caption for this photo is wrong? It’s from “Gloster Meteor” by Barry Jones, second page of the first colour photo section.