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Index
Title Page
Also by the Author
Dedication
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Prologue - Winter 1943
1 - Before Take-off – Early Days in Canada
From School to Sailing, and a Meccano set
2 - Canadian Wings – From Water to Air
3 - To Southampton via Dessau, and the Wasserkuppe
4 - Supermarine Days
5 - Perfecting the Spitfire
The Drag Coefficients
6 - The Mystical Ellipse
7 - Supermarine’s Modified Double Ellipse
8 - The Spitfire’s Vital Advantage
Wing Loading – the Vital Factor
The Details of Design – the Boundary Layer and the Wing Root Fillet and Tail Designs
The Wing Root Fillet
The Tail Design
9 - Sailplanes and the Spitfire?
10 - Beyond the Leading Edge
11 - The Heinkel 70 and Other Issues
Shenstone’s Personal Response to the He 70 Allegations
Further Key Points
Summary of He 70 Issues
12 - Atlantic Commuter
13 - Canada or Britain?
14 - British European Airways
Make do and Mend
15 - Viscount, Vanguard and Trident
Trident Troubles
16 - Airliners, Gliders, and Man-Powered Flight
Gliders
Man-Powered Flight
Epilogue: Tail Piece
Notes
Appendix - B.S. Shenstone: Published Articles, Papers, Letters and Lectures – 1931 – 1979
Reference Sources
Index
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