Aircraft

Moscow and Back by Tiger Moth, with Photographs by Herbie Knott, very numerous illustrations from colour and b&w photographs, cartoons, maps and diagrams, 160 pp, green cloth in d/w, edges of d/w slightly creased, inscription on front endpaper, otherwise very good, Quiller Press 1990

24.8 x 30.5, 1130g, ISBN 1 87094 847 5

One of those nutty expeditions the British are renowned for.  The gargantuan task of obtaining approval for low-level flights in Russian airspace (remember what happened to Mathias Rust!) was eased by the brilliant decision to take along navigators from the Russian Air Force.