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by Rafael A López Permuy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
At the start of the Spanish Civil War, most young fighter pilot officers joined the rebels, while the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals remained loyal to the government. Mostly flying the obsolete Nieuport Ni.52s these loyalists were soon...
Kings of the Air
French Aces and Airmen of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In comparison to their British and German counterparts, the French airmen of the Great War are not well known. Yet their aerial exploits were just as remarkable, and their contribution to the war effort on the Western Front was equally important. That is why Ian Sumner's vivid history of the men of...
Allied Bombing Raids: Hittiing Back at the Heart of Germany
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The pilots and combined bombing forces of the Second World War are revered for a host of reasons. Their bravery when cast against the odds, their resilience and determination under fire, and the startling extent of their combined achievements towards the collective end of Allied victory have all been...
Caribbean Volunteers at War
The Forgotten Story of the RAF's 'Tuskegee Airmen'
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
All of a sudden there was the rush of an immense shadow coming towards him at terrific speed. It was the ground reaching up to gather him. The date was 26 June, 1943 and Cy Grant was the rarest of things - a black West Indian RAF crew member, blown out of his exploding Lancaster bomber.
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by Nancy E. Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
In March 1921, Major John G. Thornell and his crew were detailed to Italy to procure a new experimental airship for the United States Army Air Service. Stationed at Langley Field in Hampton, the ROMA never lived up to expectations despite being heralded as the future of military innovation. Tragically,...
To Caress the Air
Augustus Herring and the Dawn of Flight. Book One
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Most people accept the view that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. “Not so!” according to American aviation pioneer Augustus Moore Herring. “The aeroplane has a good many daddies.” Herring should know; he was there.
To Caress the Air is a biographical novel based on Herring’s...
Air Vagabonds
Oceans, Airmen, and a Quest for Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Air Vagabonds is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations.
In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed anything seen before or since. This created the need for a small air...
TSR2
Britain's lost Cold War strike jet
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans. It was a magnificent, cutting-edge aircraft, one of the most striking of the Cold War, but fell victim to cost overruns, overambitious requirements, and...
In the Cockpit
Inside 50 History-Making Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum holds the country's premier collection of historic aircrafts, but visitors must view these impressive structures at a distance.
In the Cockpit captures the feeling of helming these historic craft with big, gorgeous four–color photographs that...
by E. Packer Wilbur
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Juliet and Zulu are both Master Flight Instructors. They will guide you through this book which is an essential reference summarizing the basic knowledge used by Private Pilots to fly under visual flight rules (VFR) worldwide. It is written not only for Private Pilots, Sport Pilots and flight students,...
Dogfight
The Supermarine Spitfire and The Messerschmitt BF 109
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Innumerable books have been published on the two most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf109. But books setting out to tell the story of both aircraft are very much rarer - probably fewer than the fingers of one hand. Yet their joint story is one...
Trials and Errors
Experimental UK Test Flying in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Following his success as a Cold War Canberra pilot, Mike Brooke was dispatched to become a flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. After this interesting career spell, he moved on to undertake the demanding training regime at the UK's Empire Test Pilots' School in order for him...
From Hitler's U-Boats to Kruschev's Spyflights
Twenty Five Years with Flight Lieutenant Thomas Buchanan Clark, RAF
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This book tells the tale of the illustrious Royal Air Force career of Tom Clark, a World War Two gunner and post-war signaller in action during some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. Lovingly penned by his son, it provides an authentic insight into this dynamic period of world history.
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by John Deans
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
All across America, people are learning to fly. Drones are taking to the skies to help in search-and-rescue, industry, journalism and hobbies. While drones look like toys, they are anything but. They require the discipline of a pilot and the legal support of a license. But how do you get approved...