An Aviation Book Sale is to be held at the National Aerospace Library at Farnborough on Thursday May 24 2018, 10:30 – 4:30pm. Entry is free and available for purchase on the day will be many 100s of new / second-hand donated books and heaps of aviation magazines - a wide range of aviation history books, autobiographies, biographies, histories of individual aircraft types / aircraft companies, old journals, books on the history of RAF, technical textbooks etc. - a sheer abundance of aviation titles.
Most of the books will be sold between £1.00 and £5.00 and the magazines will be 25p each or 5 for a £1.00; the money raised from the sale of these donated books will be used towards the conservation of historic aviation material in the Library’s archives. This year we are continuing the funding for the archival conservation of a large collection of original Second World War aircraft identification posters.
Also on the day authors Peter Reese and Sharon Wright will be signing copies of their new books Transforming the Skies: Pilots, Planes and Politics in British Aviation, 1919-1940 and Balloonomania Belles which were primarily researched in the Library and which have just been published.
As this event attracted a number of visitors last year, arrangements for additional parking have been made with Farnborough Business Park so that on the day there will be signed parking areas available for people to use on the hard standing outside the Q121 and R133 wind tunnel buildings, which are near to the end of The Hub building where the National Aerospace Library is located. No parking vouchers will be required to be displayed by visitors to the Book Sale who park in these designated areas which will only be accessible via North Gate Road alongside the BMW site on Farnborough Road.
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The Aviators in the opposite corner of The Hub building in the which the National Aerospace Library is located serves a wide selection of hot and cold meals / refreshments.
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For more information, please contact the National Aerospace Library on (0)1252 701038/70106 nal@aerosociety.com