Tim McLelland (formerly Tim Laming; 8 August 1962, in Sheffield – 6 November 2015) was a

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aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...

author, photographer and journalist. Self-taught with no formal qualifications, he went on to create over 40 different titles, which covered many different subjects. He died in the Macmillan Palliative Care Unit of the

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, in 2015.

Selected publications

*Laming, Tim (1987) ''Modelling Aircraft'' Ian Allan; *Laming, Tim (1994) ''The Royal Air Force Manual'' London: Cassell; *McLelland, Tim (2013) ''Britain's Cold War Bombers'' Fonthill Media (2016 ed)

References

1962 births 2015 deaths Writers from Sheffield Photographers from Yorkshire British journalists {{UK-writer-stub