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Flying at the Edge
20 Years of Front-Line and Display Flying in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
This is the autobiography of an outstanding fighter pilot during his twenty year career with the Royal Air Force. Tony Doyle first flew when in the CCF where he complted a glider course and then a highly-prized Flying Scholarship. This opened the way to joining the RAF and becoming an all-weather...
by Kaplan, Philip
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. The accounts of the experiences of fighter pilots are based on archival research, diaries, letters, published and unpublished memoirs and personal interviews with veterans.
Bomber Command: Reflections of War
Volume 3 The Heavies Move In 1942 1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two. From the early wartime years when the RAFs first attempts to avenge Germanys onslaught were bedeviled by poor navigation and inaccurate bombing, to the final winning...
Bomber Command Reflections of War
Battles with the Nachtjagd 30/31 March- September 1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This, the fourth volume of a five part work that provides a comprehensive insight into all aspects of RAF Bomber Command in World War Two, begins in the spring of 1944 with a completely new insight on the catastrophic raid on Nuremburg on the night of 30/31 March and follows with the disastrous attack...
Men of the Bombers
Remarkable Incidents in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
This is a selection of ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two. It covers operations of varying natures, such as one of the first leaflet dropping raids during the 'Phoney War' when the elderly Whitley bomber proved to be a nightmare...
Flying into the Flames of Hell
Flying with Bomber Command in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
The book contains twenty-three stirring accounts of what life flying as air-crew in World War Two was really like. The writers are a mixed bunch of pilots, navigators and gunners who flew medium and heavy bombers or Mosquitoes. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target,...
Bomber Commander
Don Saville DSO, DFC - 'The Mad Australian
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Wing Commander Donald Teale Saville DSO, DFC joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1927. From 1932 until 1939 he flew and tested private aircraft, was a flying instructor and then a Captain-pilot with Australian National Airways. In 1936, at the age of 36 years, he volunteered for the RAF whilst...
100 Group (Bomber Support)
RAF Bomber Command in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Norfolk.
The growing importance of the 'electronic war' in the air in 1943 caused the creation of 100 Group to fly both defensive and offensive sorties employing highly secret...
1st Air Division 8th Air Force USAAF 1942-45
Flying Fortress Squadrons in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire.
Constituted as the lst Bombardment Division on 30 August 1943 the unit was activated at Brampton Grange, Huntingdon on 13...
Dinghy Drop
279 Squadron RAF 1941 - 46
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
September 1941 approval was given for the formation of two long-range Air-Sea Rescue squadrons. No 279 Squadron was formed at Bircham Newton in Norfolk. In the period leading up to the formation of the squadron there had been much work done in relation to air-dropped survival equipment such as the...
by Tony Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
American Eagles provides a photographic snapshot of the lives of the American fighter pilots who volunteered their services during World War II, as well as the Spitfires and Hurricanes they flew. Keen to help Britain stem the spread of Fascism, or perhaps seeking adventure in a foreign land, a number...
Wings Across Canada
An Illustrated History of Canadian Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
From the eccentric Fairey Battle to the lethal-looking CF-18, from modern airliners that have no defects (and no character) to the classic North Star (which had both), here is the ultimate line-up of the aircraft that have served Canadians in the last century. With over one hundred photographs of...
by Phil H. Listemann
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The purpose of this study is to provide aviation historians and enthusiasts with a range of information relative to each of the Commonwealth squadrons that saw combat during World War II. Each record will comprise a short history, complete with illustrations and artwork, and accompanied by the following...
by Paul F Crickmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
The SR-71 represents the very pinnacle of Cold War aircraft design and it has become an aviation icon. Together with its predecessor, the A-12, the Blackbird was a giant leap into the technical unknown and the design employed many forms of new technology made necessary by the excesses of speed, altitude...