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Slipstream: the autobiography of an air craftsman

Chapter 36: Transcriber’s Notes
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A veteran of early and mid‑twentieth‑century aviation recounts personal experiences and industry developments from pioneering optimism through wartime mobilization to postwar airlift operations. The narrative interweaves memoir, technical and managerial anecdotes, and reflections on political and economic struggles that shaped commercial and military aviation. It contrasts doctrines that emphasized air bombardment with a persistent case for air transport as a force for reconstruction and peaceful commerce, arguing that civilian air services, industry initiative, and public policy together hold the key to realizing aviation’s potential to support global recovery and stability.

Transcriber’s Notes

  • pg 5 Changed: some thought, had helped pursuade
    to: some thought, had helped persuade
  • pg 5 Changed: one of the few battleships with an airpline
    to: one of the few battleships with an airplane
  • pg 58 Changed: wiley as the famous German Baron von Richtofen
    to: wiley as the famous German Baron von Richthofen
  • pg 82 Changed: while the old seaplane tender and kite-ballon
    to: while the old seaplane tender and kite-balloon
  • pg 82 Changed: this fault immediately they would loose
    to: this fault immediately they would lose
  • pg 98 Changed: But aften Don had produced a masterpiece
    to: But after Don had produced a masterpiece
  • pg 103 Changed: make capital of it by pursuading
    to: make capital of it by persuading
  • pg 123 Changed: during tactical exercises, using Voughts to stimulate
    to: during tactical exercises, using Voughts to simulate
  • pg 155 Changed: To match Tom Hamilton’s propellor-design
    to: To match Tom Hamilton’s propeller-design
  • pg 159 Changed: professional slaves to every officier
    to: professional slaves to every officer
  • pg 184 Changed: When the final account is cast up, Igor Ivanovitch
    to: When the final account is cast up, Igor Ivanovich
  • pg 237 Changed: It would take some doing to pursuade
    to: It would take some doing to persuade
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