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Astonishing Stories Pilots Tell Pilots
Airplane pilots are notorious story tellers. As this collection of tales (mostly true) are revealed in this book, the reader, whether a pilot or not, can experience a sense of what it is like to be at the controls of everything from a puddle jumper to a Mach 3 jet.
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Battle Under the Moon
This is a gripping account of the ill-fated RAF raid on May 3, 1944, on the Panzer tank depot and military barracks at Mailly-le-Camp south of Rheims in northern France.
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Boulton Paul 1917-1961: Aircraft, Projects and Studies
This book sheds much new light on the activities of an often overlooked company which was in many respects at the forefront of aeronautical innovation in Britain for several decades.
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Britain's Aircraft Industry: Triumphs and Tragedies Since 1909
For the first time here is a readable, highly-illustrated, examination of the entire British aircraft industry, its heritage, and the changes it faces in the 21st century, both technical and political.
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Building the B-17 Flying Fortress: A Detailed Look at Manufacturing Boeing
This book features photos and manufacturing details of America's greatest multi-engine World War II combat aircraft and tells the compelling story of how more than 12,000 B-17s were built.
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Chinese Air Power
This book focuses on the current People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) and the Naval Aviation order of battle and describes the most advanced aircraft types currently in service or due to enter service.
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Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean
In this first of two volumes, the author traces the evolution and development of close air support, beginning during the final year of the Great War, via the doldrums of the inter-war years, to the point where the RAF was criticized heavily because of its apparent absence at Dunkirk.
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Dornier Do 217 1941-1945
Chris Goss, has documented the operational history of the Do 217 and offers the most comprehensive account so far published in the English language.
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Douglas DC-3/C-47 in Latin American Military Service
Richly illustrated, with tables describing the often extraordinary individual services lives of each-and-every known Douglas DC-3 and C-47, this is a testament to the men and women who, for three-quarters of a century, have sweated, cursed and yet loved these magnificent aircraft.
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Focke-Wulf Ta 154: Luftwaffe Reich Defence Day and Night Interceptor
This is a significantly revised and expanded version of a book originally published with a small print run in 2006 in the German language, so it will be new to Anglophone readers. It is an absorbing account remarkably sophisticated German World War II aircraft on which relatively little has hitherto been published. The author dispels myths associated with the construction methods of the Ta 154 and reveals much new and intriguing information about this fascinating aircraft.
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French Secret Projects 3: French & European Spaceplane Designs 1964-1994
This book relates the story of the remarkable concepts, crossovers between aircraft and spacecraft beginning with the 'antipodal bomber' of 1944 and continuing to Aerospatiale STS-2000 project through the Transporteur Aero-Spatial, VERAS, AW Pyramid, Bumerang, S nger II, HOTOL, Hermes, and Taranis. Non-European projects like Dyna-Soar, Hyperplane, HOPE, and MAKS are also be covered.
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If War Should Come: The Origins of the Second World War from The Times Archive
This is a pictorial look at aspects of life in Britain and in other parts of Europe in the run up to the start of WWII using press photographs from the era.
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McDonnell Douglas C-9A "Nightingale "C-9B "Skytrain II"
Learn the history of the McDonnell Douglas C-9 that was a military version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airliner. It was produced as the C-9A Nightingale for the United States Air Force, and the C-9B Skytrain II for the Marine Corps and U.S. Navy.
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Me 163: Rocket Interceptor
Along with hundreds of rare photographs, the book is enriched by specially commissioned color artwork and many detailed technical drawings, ensuring that this work stands as the principal reference source on fabled Me 163.
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Mistel: German Composite Aircraft and Operations 1942-1945
This is a revised and reworked edition of the author's long out of print 2001 study of the origins, development and operations of Germany's composite aircraft during World War II.
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Nachtjager: Luftwaffe Night Fighter Units 1939 - 1945
This is a compendium edition of the much regarded and long out-of-print Nachtj ger volumes in the acclaimed Classic Colours series on the aircraft, camouflage and markings of the Luftwaffe between 1933-1945.
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North American B-45 Tornado
This book is presented in 12 chapters detailing B-45A, B-45C and RB-45C design, production, performance, payload, endurance and operations as it served as a bomber, reconnaissance and flight test aircraft.
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Smokin' Tigers: A Pictorial History of Reconnaissance Attack Squadron ONE (RVAH-1)
A Pictorial History of Reconnaissance Attack Squadron ONE (RVAH-1)
$49.95 -
Soviet and Russian Special Mission Aircraft
This latest work from the acclaimed Russian authors Dmitriy Komissarov and Yefim Gordon includes intelligence gathering, early warning, counter-measures, and 'doomsday' aircraft with many previous highly-classified or little-known types and variants.
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Sukhoi Su-57: Famous Russian Aircraft
The book charts the development and trials history of the 1.44, Su-47 and Su-57, as well as other project versions that did not make it to the hardware stage. It is illustrated with numerous previously unpublished photos and drawings.
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Teach for the Sky: British Training Aircraft Since 1945
Drawing on research in company and government archives, Teach for the Sky describes the development of British training aircraft for basic, advanced, operational conversion and aircrew training from the late 1940s to the present day.
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The SAS Secret War in Italy: Special Forces, Partisans and Covert Operations 1943-1945
This new book covers a little known but absorbing aspect of the Italian campaign in World War II. Partisans, secret operations, Allied Special Forces and the last airborne operation of the war are all featured in the book.
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The Saturn I/IB Rocket: NASA's First Apollo Launch Vehicle
Illustrated throughout with NASA technical drawings and photographs, many previously unpublished, this absorbing book also includes a description of each mission flown by the Saturn I and IB.
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Wrecks & Relics - 28th Edition
This new book is renowned as the go-to source charting the highlights, changes and trends in the preservation of the aviation heritage of the British Isles.
$29.95