Towards an Integrated Approach to Recording Military Aircraft Crash Sites

The forensic investigation of military aircraft crash sites has become in recent times part of mainstream traditional archaeology. Mostly amateur aircraft enthusiasts have undertaken the recovery of military aircraft crash sites without methodically recording the remains. The sites covered in this paper have been approached based on recording the in-situ remains methodically using traditional and scientific methods used in the field of archaeology from fieldwalking, metal detecting and geophysics. The strategy and methodology used in this investigation showed how effective and important it is to recover as much of the remains as possible to place it into a meaningful context in order to understand the reasoning for why these aircraft came to a devasting end by crashing into the ground at great speed. The excavations have involved Operation Nightingale—an MOD based recovery programme that specializes in archaeology. This paper will demonstrate the importance of using such an integrated approach to the recovery of military aircraft crash sites from the Second World War by referring to specific case studies.

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The International Institute of Administrative Sciences: main stages of its history

International Review of Administrative Sciences ◽

10.1177/0020852305053880 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 71 (2) ◽

pp. 197-215

Author(s):

Denis Moschopoulos

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

International Institute ◽

World War ◽

Permanent Commission ◽

Scientific Methods ◽

The World ◽

Methods And Techniques ◽

History Of ◽

In The Beginning ◽

Second World

The article reviews the major moments in the history of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences from the year of its establishment (1930) to the present. Additionally, it provides information on the 1910-30 period during which the Permanent Commission for International Congresses in Administrative Sciences operated. More specifically, the article presents the main themes addressed by the international congresses, round tables and conferences organized by the previously mentioned Commission in the beginning, and by the Institute after 1930. Attention is given to the Institutés ‘internationalization’ during the post Second World War period. The Institutés international vocation was demonstrated by the participation of member states and national sections from all over the world, as well as by the development of cooperation with international and supranational organizations. Finally, the Institutés scientific methods and techniques during the 20th century are presented.

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Advantages of a Brake Parachute Compared with Thrust Reversal for Landing Civil Aircraft

Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society ◽

10.1017/s0001924000060334 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 69 (650) ◽

pp. 80-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. B. Jackson

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

Military Aircraft ◽

World War ◽

Considerable Time ◽

Fighter Aircraft ◽

Time Experience ◽

Civil Aircraft ◽

Wear And Tear ◽

The Subject ◽

Second World

For some considerable time, experience has been accumulated on the retardation of military aircraft on landing by means of a brake parachute. A patent for such a device, for example, was granted to Captain, now Colonel, Prospero Freri, in Italy in 1930. The first useful applications were towards the end of the Second World War on gliders and fighter aircraft, but systematic use of this type of decelerator on American aircraft began just before 1950. The first postwar British service aircraft fitted with a brake parachute was the Vulcan, followed closely by the Lightning and the Victor. These three aircraft use brake parachutes to reduce the landing run and also to reduce wear and tear on the aircraft brakes and tyres. The Lightning in particular has been the subject of extensive application of the brake parachute.

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A High Temperature Decompression Chamber for Developing Aircraft Environmental Control Systems

Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society ◽

10.1017/s0368393100074228 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 65 (602) ◽

pp. 111-126

Author(s):

O. D. Furlong

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

High Temperature ◽

Control Systems ◽

Environmental Control ◽

Well Being ◽

Second World War ◽

Military Aircraft ◽

World War ◽

Humidity Control ◽

Second World

The greatly increased performance of both civil and military aircraft since the Second World War has raised problems undreamt of at an earlier period and, from the simple measures originally introduced to improve pilot’s well-being, have sprung the complex installations which are now essential for human survival and comfort and to ensure the proper functioning of vital equipment carried in present day machines.The term “Environmental Control System” is used for convenience to cover collectively the various cabin and equipment bay, pressure, temperature and humidity control systems that are fitted.

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The materiality of conflict memory: Reflections from contemporary Italy

Journal of Material Culture ◽

10.1177/1359183520954506 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 447-461

Author(s):

Sarah De Nardi

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Physical Object ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Object A ◽

Post Conflict ◽

The Moment ◽

Second World ◽

Opening Up

The process and project of rememory (after Toni Morrison’s Beloved, 1987) may be linked with a politics of hope – to exorcise, to move on, to empower; rememories are emergent ‘sites of feeling’ capable of triggering bodily reactions and emotional responses. This article takes stock of some emergent traces of post-conflict materialities that can be explored through storytelling, in this case, of the civil war between fascists and anti-fascists in Italy during the Second World War (1943–1945). The author reflects on the cathartic capacity of rememory through two wartime storytelling ‘experiments’. In a town square, the Surviving Thing is the handed-down memory of two executions, one on each side, haunting the place but without physical in situ traces of those acts. In 2014, veteran fascists and anti-fascists and their descendants re-enacted violent episodes on both sides that had left no visible or tangible traces. They used spatial clues in archival photographs, triangulating the traces to conjure up spectral geographies of death on both political sides, to ‘get closure’. In another example, a Surviving Thing is present as a physical object (a letter) without mnemonic trace. In 2012, an ex-partisan paid tribute to unsung heroes of the local resistance by writing an open letter that commemorated their bravery. While also looking for closure (or perhaps an opening up?), she wrote to dispel the oblivion to which history banished the boys’ actions – to fill an absence with an affectual presence. The well-thumbed sheet is thus animated in the moment of witnessing through a loving act of rememory. The two post-conflict sites reveal something of the affectual and cathartic capacity of traces that survive and those that do not. Overall, rememories perform intangible affects that frame the nuanced social legacies of conflict, while the ‘experiments’ embody the centrality of storytelling to the material culture of post-conflict societies.

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Recent Work at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society ◽

10.1017/s0079497x00027092 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 78 ◽

pp. 35-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

John McNabb ◽

Robert Hosfield ◽

Kevin Dearling ◽

Dominic Barker ◽

Kristian Strutt ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Fluvial Terrace ◽

Geological Interpretation ◽

History Of ◽

To Come ◽

Marine Embayment ◽

Second World ◽

Geological Research

Changes in the geological interpretation of the history of the ancient Solent river basin have focused attention on the handaxes discovered in the Corfe Mullen area during quarrying before the Second World War. Recent geological research suggests that the fluvial terrace the handaxes are associated with may pre-date the Anglian glaciation. This is important because it contributes to the question of just when the Solent basin was first occupied by hominins, and how this relates to other areas of possible contemporary pre-Anglian occupation such as the Boxgrove Marine embayment. However, the artefacts were believed to come from the bluff of the river terrace and were thus not in situ. This paper explores that question and re-examines the context from which the handaxes at Corfe Mullen were discovered.

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The Price of Air Power: Technological Change, Industrial Policy, and Military Aircraft Contracts in the Era of British Rearmament, 1935–39

The Business History Review ◽

10.2307/3116330 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 71 (1) ◽

pp. 82-111

Author(s):

Sebastian Ritchie

Keyword(s):

The United States ◽

Second World War ◽

Efficient Production ◽

Military Aircraft ◽

World War ◽

Air Power ◽

Fixed Price ◽

The Government ◽

Second World ◽

Official Records

During the Second World War leading belligerents such as Britain, the United States, and Germany, favored the use of fixed-price contracts for purchasing military aircraft. These contracts were believed to encourage economical and efficient production. Yet only Britain succeeded in developing contractual procedures based primarily upon the fixed price. This article examines the evolution of British contractual policy in the later 1930s, drawing upon both corporate and official records to explain why Britain succeeded where both America and Germany failed. Efforts to develop the fixed-price system in Britain were initially frustrated by the technological revolution which transformed aviation during the 1930s. Moreover, divided opinions within both the government and the aircraft industry helped prevent the emergence of a coherent contractual policy. By 1939, however, British aircraft manufacturers were unanimous in their support for fixed-price contracts.

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