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Books about the Irish Viscount owner and operator Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus V.707 Viscount c/n 30 EI-AFV
Doesn't Time Fly?:
Aer Lingus - Its History
by Mike Cronin
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It is 75 years since Aer Lingus, Ireland's national airline, took to the sky.
This book not only charts the history of the airline, but also focuses on those who have worked for it and have flown with it.
It draws heavily on the company's extensive archive of photographs, posters and advertisements, as well as the ephemera and
memories of its staff.
A social history of an airline, it chronicles the innovative ways in which Aer Lingus has met a plethora of challenges since
1936, and how it has always been able to adapt and transform itself.
This is an indispensable book for anyone who has ever been connected with Aer Lingus, has boarded one of their planes, or is
fascinated about how this most modern and revolutionary technology transported Irishness, as symbolised by the tail-fin shamrock,
across the seas.
Tragedy at Tuskar Rock
by Mike Reynolds
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An Irish government report was published two years after the disaster. It speculated on possible causes for the crash but
produced no definitive conclusions.
A blizzard of rumour surrounded the incident for many years, of which the most popular was that the plane had been blown out of
the sky during a British military training exercise and that the whole thing had subsequently been hushed up to spare the
blushes of the London government.
More than thirty years after the crash, the Irish government delegated a new study to three independent experts, two French and
one Australian.
Mike Reynolds was their Irish-based assistant, gathering information, interviewing surviving witnesses and performing
other relevant tasks. He made a crucial contribution which suggested that the initial upset to the aircraft had occurred much
earlier in the flight than had always been assumed.
The final report concluded that all of the evidence is consistent with some initial damage to the left tail-plane, shortly after
take-off from Cork. No other aircraft or missile was involved.
'Tragedy at Tuskar Rock' is based on Mike Reynolds' work on the report. It is a detective tale of how the clues were assembled
and how the mystery was unravelled. It also reveals a dramatic twist in the story. Everything was not as it seemed.
The real story of the crash, presented here for the first time in book form, is far more interesting than the conspiracy
theories - and just as sensational.
Aer Lingus Flight 712
by Jesse Russell
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Flight 712, operated by Aer Lingus crashed en route from Cork to London on 24 March 1968 killing 61 passengers and crew. The
plane, a Vickers Viscount V.803 named 'St. Phelim', crashed into the sea off Tuskar Rock, County Wexford.
Although the investigation into the crash lasted two years, a cause was never determined. There has long been popular
speculation that the aircraft was shot down by a British experimental missile. Aberporth in West Wales was at the time the
most advanced British missile testing station.
Pioneers in Flight:
Aer Lingus and the Story of Aviation in Ireland
by Niall G Weldon
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Aer Lingus (German)
by Ronald Cohn and Jesse Russell
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The Flight of the 'Iolar':
Aer Lingus Experience, 1936-86
by Bernard Share
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Vintage Aer Lingus New York travel poster
A3 print
by VPS
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