“Skywriting” by James Gilbert. 269 pp. 8 1\/2″ x 5 1\/2″. (Michael Joseph Ltd., 52, Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3EF. \u00a34.95.)<\/p>\n
This is a collection of extracts from some of the better books about Hying, including ballooning and other lighter-than-air machines, written by authors whose work ranks among the literature of aviation, edited by the Editor of Pilot. The idea has been tried before, with motoring and motor-racing quotations, and I am not particularly in favour of this type of presentation. But of writers whose books merit reading in their entirety, I am pleased to see that, among those favoured by Gilbert, are the everreadable Cecil Lewis, who was interviewed on 1313C TV recently, the equally-gifted aviationwriter Harold Penrose, and such names as the pioneer C. C. Turner, Nevil Shute of Airspeed memory, the amateur pilot Richard Garnett, and such famed RAF and record-breaking pilots as Lindburgh, Geoffrey de Havilland, Richthofen, Chichester, Hillary, the poet-minded Saint Exupery, etc., etc. So this is an enthralling “browsing” book and I also found the bibliography and acknowledgements an interesting section of this book! – W.B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,182,34861,35626,44309,39998,3029],"issue_decade":[121607],"issue_year":[121658],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/7197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270764,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/7197\/revisions\/270764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}