Having seen the interest generated by Specialty's 'The X-Planes of Europe', I thought I had better supply some additional information.
My input was to write about the British research types that we wanted to include, plus a couple of German V/STOL (VJ 101 and VAK 191), one Swedish (Saab 210) and one Swiss (the Arbalete). We have included types that broke new ground in some way - AW.52 (flying wing), SR.A./1 (boat fighter), etc, but not those that were essentially prototypes or demo aircraft for future service aeroplanes (so aircraft such as the P.1052/P.1081 for example were not included).
I have tried to introduce as much new info as I could find. For example the Hunting H.126 chapter includes drawings of the Hunting JFR.12 design that led to it and also the Avro 746 study.
A really important element of the book, however, will be coverage of plenty of French types in English language when so little has been available in the past. The research and writing has been done by a French chap who I have not met, with editing by Mike Machat.
With Specialty's excellent production standards this should be a nice package. In fact, if you want a good marker for the quality of Specialty's editing and production, go and compare their new book on the Grumman Panther/Cougar against Schiffer's new title on the Vought F7U Cutlass. The very expensive Cutlass book is really rather poor.
Just to keep you posted on my output, I have just handed over to Ian Allan a colour photo album for British Military Aircraft 1945-1970. All real aeroplanes of course, but there are some very rare subjects in it which I hope will appeal to the modeller.
On the projects side Aviation News has been publishing pieces every month since about April - Westland Jet aircraft projects for example, and another providing some background to the weapon system concept.
I hope at least some members will find these of interest.
American Secret Projects: Bombers by the way should currently be at the printers.
Many thanks once again to everyone for their support.
Very best wishes,
Tony