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Douglas DC-3
80 Glorious Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Like the P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire, the Douglas DC-3 is an iconic aircraft design. It has endured more than any other with several hundred still in use worldwide in locations as far apart as Africa, Antarctica and the US. Many of the current operators use turbine conversions of the DC-3mainly...
by Christopher Orlebar
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
From her first commercial flight in 1976, and throughout 27 years of service, Concorde was hailed as a technological wonder. The only passenger airliner capable of maintaining speeds in excess of Mach 2 for more than two hours at a time, she became one of the most iconic aircraft ever built.
Drawing...
Mayday Over Wichita
The Worst Military Aviation Disaster in Kansas History
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
On the cold Saturday morning of January 16, 1965, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker carrying thirty-one thousand gallons of jet fuel crashed into a congested African American neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas. When the fire and destruction finally subsided, forty-seven people--mostly African American children--were...
Deadly Turbulence
The Air Safety Lessons of Braniff Flight 250 and Other Airliners, 1959-1966
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Jet airliner operations in the United States began in 1958, bringing, it was thought, a new era of fast, high, safe, smooth, sophisticated travel. But almost immediately, the new aircraft were involved in incidents and accidents that showed jets created new problems even as they solved old ones. This...
by Nicholas C. Selig
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Nick Selig excavates the highways to the sky that have been covered up by urban sprawl or dissolved by neglect. More than a guide to landing strips that have had startling second lives as shopping malls or retirement homes, he uncovers the excitement of the early days of air travel, when a man might...
From Lysander to Lightning
Teddy Petter, Aircraft Designer
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The Lysander, Canberra, Lightning, and Folland Gnat are massive names in the world of aviation, but not so their designer, "Teddy" Petter. Only three aspects bound together these top-class aircraft: they were each radical, all successful in Britain and overseas, and were all born of the...
Cleared for Take-Off
Structure and Strategy in the Low Fare Airline Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Competition in air transport has been transformed by industry liberalization initiatives, resulting in the emergence of a wide array of new airline start-ups. Restrictions on low fares have been removed, uniform control requirements have been established, and legislation has facilitated the proliferation...
Miles M.52
Gateway to Supersonic Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
From an aviation legend comes the only personal account of the development of the M.52 and the mystery behind its cancelationIn December 1943, a top-secret contract (E.24/43) was awarded to Miles Aircraft. The contract was to build the world's first supersonic jet capable of 1,000 mph. The only reliable...
by Craig Cabell
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
When Hitler unleashed his V1 and V2 rockets on Great Britain in 1944, it was the first military attack on the British civilian population without invasion. Innocent families were wiped out without mercy and terror gripped the nation. Churchill and the Crossbow Committee knew that widespread panic...
Night Fighter over Germany
Flying Beaufighters and Mosquitoes in World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
These are the highly evocative wartime memoirs of a young NCO pilot whose operational experience was with Beaufighters and Mosquitoes flying in the long-range night-fighter role. It is not a gung-ho account of daring-do, but a 'warts and all' story of what life was really like in that time of international...
Clash of The Carriers
The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
The incredible true story of the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history—World War II’s Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.
“Superb... the greatest naval air battle of all time finally receives the meticulous and comprehensive treatment it deserves.”—Richard Frank, author of...
Hammer from Above
Marine Air Combat Over Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps’ ground campaign up the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed and aggressiveness unparalleled in military history. Little has been written, however, of the air support that guaranteed the drive’s success. Paving the way for the rush to Baghdad...
by Tony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The legendary F-14 Tomcat was the weapon of choice to strike against the enemies of the United States in the wake of the September 11 attacks, with F-14s flying thousands of bombing missions on al-Qaeda and Taliban positions. Written by aviation expert Tony Holmes, this book explores the F-14 pilots...
Immediate Response
Original Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
2006 in Helmand saw British forces engaged in the most ferocious fighting since the Korean War. For much of the time they were hanging on by their fingertips, holed up in remote platoon houses, outnumbered, facing relentless assault and nearly overwhelmed. Only the Chinooks kept them in the game....