A Thousand Shall Fall by Murray Peden is still my yardstick.

Looking forward to hearing the latest on the Kittyhawk. All the magazines have run what has been discussed here (Flightpath ran a very well done piece with JDK drawing the threads together into something cohesive). It’s like we’re at the tipping point while we wait for something firm. Fingers crossed for good and constructive news.

Sorry, mate, haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.

Dipping in and out of the bible that is David Vincent’s The RAAF Hudson Story – Book Two with the intention to review it eventually (don’t really need to, it’s the most comprehensive thing you could ever read and wonderfully illustrated) and just starting John Clements’ Coastal Strike which is about his time as an SAAF Beaufighter pilot in the Med (shot down, became a POW and escaped to return to Beaus).

Also reading Jack Du Brul’s The Pandora Curse for a bit of light relief.

Whole-heartedly agree with A Thousand Shall Fall by Peden and Crosley’s They Gave Me A Seafire.

Some of the lesser-known titles I have on my shelf include (off the top of my head) Alcorn’s From Hell To Breakfast, Neville Parnell’s Beaufighters In The Pacific, the Clements/Gibson Coastal Strike, The Aegean Pirates by Bouwer and Thompson, Roy Watson’s lovely Bush Pilots Do It In Fours and On The Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon by Alan Tennant.

Great scenes and a few that I had ‘forgotten’ about. Must hunt them down.

One I haven’t seen listed here is when the armed Mustang appears behind the drug-running twin-engined thing in Skydancer (?).

Not a flying sequence but the ‘footprints on the mess ceiling’ scene in Appointment In London. Always thought the atmosphere and hi-jinks of a mess party was perfectly captured.

That’s great to hear about Edgar, John, and wonderful to see the book being presented to the museum.

PM sent, TwinOtter23.

Big sod of a book isn’t it, John?! It’s on my shelf but I have yet to read it. My strongest memory from a couple of flick-throughs was some of the exploits of these people. You could have walked past them in the street and never known.

Considering its size the book was surprisingly affordable. I have Bruce’s contact details at home so if anyone is interested give me a hoy.