The Ideals and Training of a Flying Officer : From the Letters and Journals of Flight Lieutenant RW Maclennan RFC Killed in France 23rd December 1917

Maclennan's beautifully nave writing vividly brings to life the spirit of the times when the world was opening up to these 'gentlemen' pilots, and reveals another aspect of the golden age of aviation and the glorious language of the times. Hidden in the archives of his Canadian University, these extracts from the letters of 2nd Lieutenant Maclennan, can finally be revealed in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the end of that Great War.