| Entry Text: | ROBERTSON, Don. The Urge to Fly: From Stick and String to Jet Age. viii, 199, [5]p., illus., index. London: Quiller, 1996.
The autobiography of a professional pilot. After a chequered youth, he joined the FAA in 1939 and by 1940 was in fighters. He joined the newly formed 807 Squadron and took a flight to join Pegasus in Belfast. She sailed as a kind of Q ship against Condors with several convoys in 1941 and with some success. He was soon back at Yeovilton but was posted to Duxford to join the Naval Air Fighter Development Unit. In December 1941 he joined 809 Squadron at Hatston and served with them on Victorious, covering Russian convoys. He returned to Vickers Armstrong to help in the development of the Seafire and after nine months there moved to Boscombe Down as a test pilot. The book finishes at the end of the war. A helpful but slightly vague account. First published in 1984 by Blandford as Those Magnificent Flying Machines |
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