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I am very grateful for the assistance that I have been given by the Vulcan to the Sky team in the preparation of The Vulcan Story.
ln particular I would like to thank Robert Pleming for his willingness to answer so many questions and for the direct help he gave in checking the text, Felicity lrwin for her support and encouragement and Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Knight for his Foreword.
I have particularly drawn upon the writing of noted aviation historian Michael J.F. Bowyer and Paul Jackson, Editor of “Jane's All the World's Aircraft”, in researching the Vulcan's development story.
In addition I have been helped by Richard Clarkson and Dave Criffiths of the Vulcan Restoration Trust through the excellent publication Vulcan News.
I am indebted to Brian Strickland for his patient research and collation of information for the narrative and appendices.
As ever it has been a difficult task to select photographs to illustrate the story of this twentieth-century aviation icon from the large number made available by the photographers and collectors who searched their photo files for me.
I am particularly grateful to the following:
Cordon Bartley, Derek Bower,Michael J.F. Bowyer, Bill Bushell, Sue J. Bushell, Richard Clarkson, Peter J. Cooper, Graham Finch, Jeremy Flack/APl, Derek James, Andrew and Daniel March, Robbie Robinson, Kev Storer, Brian Strickland, Charles Toop and Richard L. Ward.
