Military airfields of South West England are the focus of the latest volume of the Action Stations Revisited series. The area covered includes most of the counties of Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Wiltshire, along with those of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, and the Channel Islands. The whole of British aviation history is reflected here from the birth of military aviation at Larkhill, flying training at Old Sarum during the World War I and at Upavon during the 1930s, to fighter operations from Charmy Down during the World War II. Postwar developments at Filton and Boscombe Down are supplemented by recent activities at Culdrose, St.Mawgan, Yeovilton, and Lyneham. Accounts of the construction and operational use of the stations, with the aircraft types flown and units involved are illustrated by a wealth of photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
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A Cornishman, born in Penzance, David has had a life-long passion for aviation. As an air cadet David gained his glider-pilot's wings at Predannack and flew as a passenger on many Shackleton training flights from St. Mawgan. Employment took David to Hawker Siddeley Aviation at Kingston for years, and after a spell at the RAF Museum, into the Ministry of Aviation Supply, and later the MoD, working, amongst others, in Bovington and at RAE Farnborough, A&AEE Boscombe Down and DERA Porton Down. David has written much media material for the MoD, plus magazine articles, features, and three other books on airfield histories. He has been a member of the RAF Reserves for many years, and was awarded a commission in the RAFVR(T). He was appointed OC of 1011 (Amesbury) Squadron ARC at Boscombe Down, and subsequently as a Staff Officer on Dorset & Wiltshire Wing. Married, with two children, he lives near Salisbury.
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