The Daily Telegraph Book of Airmen's Obituaries

Ranging from R. E. Bishop, who designed the de Havilland Mosquito, and Tom Sopwith, the pioneer plane maker, to Sir Frank Whittle, the jet engine pioneer, Bishop's obituaries reflect the glories and setbacks of aviation in peace and war.Amid a host of pilots profiled are Jeffrey Quill, Bob Stanford Tuck, Ginger Lacey, Adolf Galland, Johnnie Johnson, Peter Townsend and Monique Agazarian, an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot who on VE day...