Latest Cross & Cockade out now

[MikeW]

Just a heads up to let you all know that Volume 36 No.4 has been out for about a week now.

The last journal of 2005 contains the following:

"Memoirs of a Russian Aviator - Part 4" The conclusion to Georgil Sheremetevsky's memoirs, an incredible story! traslated by Margaret Travers.

More Russian profiles from Mikhail Bykov, including a "Red" Nieuport 23 Bis that carries a naked Amazon archer painted on the fuselage - a sort of naughty Robina Hood.

"That Dreadful Flying Corps" - Responses to life and death in the Australian Flying Corps 1916 - 18 by Michael Molkentin, winner of the Jim Walsh prize for young writers.

"The Royal Aircraft Factory BE1" by Paul R Hare

"BE1: Development of an airframe" - an analysis with scale drawings by Cross & Cockade's Managing Editor, Mick Davis

"Prelude to a VC: 2Lt John Clark 'Jack' Simpson, 32 squadron RFC; Part 1" - another masterly biography by famous Canadian Aviation Historian Stew Taylor.

"The Sopwith Triplane in French Naval Service" - a long winded boring piece only saved by lots of photographs - by er, by er, by me actually.

A profile centre spread by Harry Dempsey depicting an early and a late Sopwith Triplane in French service.

The usual Recce, Fabric and Bookshelf departments are also present.


The cover artwork is a very eyecatching painting of a DH2 downing an Eindekker by Robin Smith. Also two paintings inside by Colin Ashford and an atmospheric "BE2 over Stonehenge" by Robert Karr.


See a preview of the journal here:

http://www.crossandcockade.com/main.htm

[Taz]

MikeW- Too bad I did not know you were writing a French Triplane piece. Just picked up an album with 5 or 6 photos of French Tripehounds, one with Guynemer's Spad XII in the foreground. Looking forward to seeing your article.

Taz
Terry Phillips