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e-journals join the RAeS e-library

Just some of the journals available.

Members from across the world can now read about the latest trends and developments in the world of aviation and aerospace by logging on to our new e-journals collection. This new service builds on our e-books collection, which is the perfect tool to brush-up your skills and boost your professional development.

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Benefits of using the e-library service

Included as part of your current membership at no additional cost
Contributes towards your continuous development and helps you to progress towards achieving your career goals
Save time by downloading chapters from our e-books to read on the go, make notes and bookmark key sections
Sign-up for an account and you can receive regular updates that tell you about the latest developments in your chosen field.

The latest trends and developments

Our new e-journals package, ProQuest’s Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database, contains articles and papers from over 2,250 full-text journals and magazines including:

News and insights from Flight International, Airline Business, Aircraft Maintenance Technology, Rotor & Wing, Defense & Aerospace Week and Flight Daily News.
Technical papers and articles from the International Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Space Science Reviews, together with a selection of material from the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the Society’s own The Aeronautical Journal.
Aviation historians can also enjoy articles and papers from Aviation History, Air Power History, Air Classics and Technology & Culture.

As an advanced technologies package, you can also find material relating to communications, computer and information technology, electronics, lasers, solid-state materials and devices, space sciences and telecommunications.

For a full list of resources, visit www.aerosociety.com/elibrary.

How to access the e-library

Just visit www.aerosociety.com/elibrary. You can then use your RAeS website login to access the e-journals and e-books packages.

Full text or abstracts?

The e-journals package is set up to show you fulltext articles available to you at the touch of a button. You can also expand your search into abstracts and items outside the e-library. If you find an article of interest, the NAL can help you to source a copy of the article.

Journals may be searched for key words (top) and alerts set up (below).

Boosting your professional development

If you need more detailed information designed to brush-up your skills and boost your professional development, try our e-books library.

This fully flexible online collection allows you to search for information and concepts across 200 books and, once you have found what you need, you can download separate chapters or even individual diagrams. Once you have created an account, you can then highlight text, add notes and electronically borrow the book for 24 hours.

The e-library covers topics including green aviation, air transport, aero engineering and maintenance, materials, powerplants and avionics, plus books aimed at helping new professionals and top-titles recommended by book reviewers.

Want to know some more tips or tricks?

The NAL will be producing short videos to show you how to get the best out of our e-books and e-journals packages. Visit www.aerosociety.com/elibrary to have a look.

Can’t find what you need?

The National Aerospace Library is there to help you find the aero information you need, whether for work, rest or play. Additional references can be found and items ordered via our main library catalogue at www.aerosciety.com/catalogue. You can also contact us via nal@aerosociety.com or +44 (0)1252 701038 to find out how we can help.

Prefer paper in your hands?

The NAL can provide paper copies by snail mail and lend physical books to members from our Farnborough reading rooms and through the post. Visit www.aerosociety.com/nal, email via nal@aerosociety.com or Tel +44 (0)1252 701038 to find out more.

Evolution of Naval Aviation in Japan

A new exhibition on the evolution of naval aviation in Japan has recently opened at the Kure City Naval History & Science Museum (Battleship Yamato Museum) at Kure, a major shipbuilding port northeast of Hiroshima.

A focal point of the exhibition is the 1921 British Aviation Mission to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) headed by Colonel The Master of Sempill (1893-1965) – later Lord Sempill – who compiled a detailed illustrated account of the British Aviation Mission published in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, September 1924, pp 553-584.

Colonel The Master of Sempill supervising the training of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service personnel, 1921. The Short-built Porte/Felixstowe F5 had been sent to Japan as part of the British Aviation Mission led by the Colonel The Master of Sempill. RAeS (NAL).

Sempill was Chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society from 1927-1930 and included in the extensive photographic archives of the National Aerospace Library are two wooden boxes containing Sempill’s photographic record of the Mission, a typescript index to the 227 3¼ inch glass lantern slides being found among the Sempill’s papers held at the Library in Farnborough.

In 2019 in response to an enquiry received from Yoshi Miki – Curatorial Consultant & Visiting Professor, National Museum of Japanese History – all the historic images from the original glass lantern slides were digitally scanned on behalf of the Library by volunteer Nick Isaacs FRAeS and can now be viewed via www.aerosociety.com/printsandposters by entering the search Sempill.

Views of the exhibition at the Kure City Naval History & Science Museum (Battleship Yamato Museum).

The Library also holds the photographic archive of one of the training pilots of the Mission – Air Commodore Herbert George Brackley CBE DSO DSC AFRAeS (1894-1948) – and the Battleship Yamato Museum exhibition includes a number of images from the Library’s archives.

One of the key companies involved in the Sempill Mission and the subsequent development of naval aviation in Japan was Short Brothers (Rochester and Bedford) Limited which sold several Felixstowe F5 flying boats to the Imperial Japanese Navy in the early 1920s, the aircraft being first flight-tested at Rochester before they were put into crates as components for assembly at the Shorts factory at Taura, a suburb of Yokosuka.

Views of the exhibition at the Kure City Naval History & Science Museum (Battleship Yamato Museum).

A detailed summary of the history of the company’s business transactions with the IJN was prepared by the Shorts historian Gordon Bruce in support of the exhibition.

For any enquiries regarding this material please contact the National Aerospace Library (E nal@aerosociety.com).

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