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Evening all,


What we on this forum call BSP4 is actually (to give it its Sunday name) British Secret Projects - Hypersonics, Ramjets and Missiles. It was only ever called BSP4 as a shorthand that sounded better than BSPHRM as it came after Tony's three BSP books. I don't recall who started calling it that or when, a decade ago probably. Wasn't me. I liked it and used it.


There's no question of Tony trespassing on my manor, my subject matter is highly varied, qv the Project Tech Profiles, so I don't really have a manor as my interests are wide. Take it back in history and we all trespass on Derek Wood's manor. Any information Tony has used was already published and since Tony and I discuss such things - and with other writers - no apology required. In fact I find the idea quite disturbing.


As Tony says the BSPn series numbers are new, Crecy have updated and appended the originals (effectively new books if BSP2 is anything to go by) and the new BSPn series benefits from modern production techniques such as full colour printing. Vulcan's Hammer and Battle Flight are expansions and updates of the AAMs, SAMs and ASMs chapters in BSP4. The Air Staff and the Helicopter (ASATH) grew from a chapter deleted from On Atlas' Shoulders and the deleted chapter on ATGWs from BSP4 might see the light of day some day.


At the end of the day, it's the publishers who decide what gets produced and what it's called.


Chris


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