Propliner Annual

The seventh edition of the Propliner Annual has been published, a “must” for a certain kind of aviation devotee, detailing passenger aircraft from 100 years ago, and going forward.

What aircraft please?  It still flies.  See AND FINALLY PLUS in this week's BTN.

Propliner Aviation Magazine was first launched in January 1979 as a journal devoted to piston-engine and turboprop aircraft. The publication concentrated upon those classic airliners of a bygone age, the magnificent Constellation, Britannia, Stratocruiser, Convairliner, Viscount and Douglas piston types that once dominated the world’s air routes.  Keeping on a quarterly basis proved to be too much of a strain for the editor and his mostly unpaid team. The annual suffices very well.

This time around the work extends to 160 pages with two news sections – covering North America and the Rest of the World –found among more than 20 major feature articles, and over 300 colour and black & white photographs.

Does anyone remember Morton Air Services at Croydon and Gatwick (it was not called London in those days) from 1945 until 1968?  The story is told. The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy is chronicled with a fascinating tale of flying the aircraft with the Royal Air Force. Lockheed Constellations feature in the book as does the Carvair and other lesser-known types.

Editor Tony Merton Jones still refuses to digitise the Propliner Magazine itself, a great pity, but you can buy the book via the web priced at just £12.

www.propliner.co.uk/shop.html

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