Flying Wartime Aircraft: ATA Ferry Pilot's Handling Notes for Seven WWII Aircraft (1972) By Hugh Bergel
 
During the Second World War, the pilots of Air Transport Auxiliary -- almost all of them amateur pilots of limited experience -- were given the responsibility of ferrying virtually all RAF aircraft. They were given dual instructions on half a dozen or so representative types of aircraft; thereafter, they were required to fly any and every type that came their way. To make this seemingly impossible job possible, ATA's Technical Department produced Pilots' Handling Notes for all the ordinary and some of the extraordinary types of aircraft ferried. In this book are reprinted, for the first time, the ATA's Handling Notes on seven notable types: the Hurricane, the Typhoon, the Airacobra, the Mosquito, the Beaufighter, the Wellington and the Liberator. Hugh Bergel, one-time CO of one of the ATA's Ferry Pools, who himself ferried about 950 aircraft of 80 different types (including these seven), has written an introduction describing the formation, organisation and work of ATA, and has interpolated comments on points of special interest in the Notes. The book is illustrated by photographs of the seven aircraft types and close-up views of their cockpits and instrumentation.
 
First Edition.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
193 Pages
In Good Condition