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Time Flies
Reflections of a Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
An insight into the daily exploits of a fighter pilot during the Cold War and beyond, both from the cockpit and in command
Reflections on high level staff meetings, including briefing the Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Heseltine, during the formative years of the Eurofighter project
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The Icarus Syndrome
The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
At the end of the Reagan era, many in the U.S. Air Force began to express their concerns about the health of their institution. They questioned whether the Air Force had lost its sense of direction, its confidence, its values, even its future. For some, these concerns reflected nothing more than the...
Tiger Cub
The Story of John Freeborn DFC*
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Acting Pilot Officer John Freeborn reported to RAF Hornchurch on 29 October, 1938. John was posted from Flying Training School to join the already acclaimed 74 ‘Tiger’ Squadron at eighteen years of age. One of the first people John met when he arrived at the station was Bob Stanford Tuck of 65...
Air Battle for Burma
Allied Pilots' Fight for Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fight back and victory in Burma was achieved as a result of the exercise of unprecedented combined services cooperation and operations. Crucial to this was the Allies’ supremacy in...
by Sean Feast
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
What sort of men were the Pathfinders, the corps d’élite of Bomber Command? What did they do? What risks did they face? And what contribution did they make to the air war and the ultimate defeat of Germany?
By drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving veterans – many speaking...
Ton-Up Lancs
A Photographic History of the Thirty-Five RAF Lancasters that Each Completed One Hundred Sorties
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
An updated and expanded photographic history of the famed military aircraft—and the men who flew them.
Aviation historian Norman Franks updates his classic book, The Lancaster, with new information and photos. The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine heavy bomber that played a crucial role in World...
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
50 Years of Flying
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The history of the Flight began with the formation of the Historic Aircraft Flight in July 1957, it was later to become known as The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Countless displays and fly-pasts have enthralled audiences and enthusiasts all over Britain and in many parts of Europe, when the...
The Royal Navy Lynx
An Operational History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book tells the story of an incredibly capable naval aircraft, based primarily on the words of those who flew and maintained it. Beginning with the Lynx's entry into service in 1976, it goes on to discuss its remarkable performance in the Falklands War. Here it was used in both its primary roles...
The Last of the 39-ers
The Extraordinary Wartime Experiences of Squadron Leader Alfie Fripp
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
In some ways, Alfie Fripp’s war ended when he was shot down on a reconnaissance sortie over Germany in October 1939. In many others, it was only just beginning. Squadron Leader Alfie Fripp (RAF Retd) was the oldest surviving and longest-serving British prisoner of war (PoW) until his death in 2012...
by Anthony Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well-known to most Australians, although not perhaps to the rest of the world. What happened afterwards, however, remains unknown to many. This publication attempts to illuminate this little-known period of war history, charting the exploits,...
Eyes of the Night
Air Defence of North-western England 1940 - 41
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
In the early years of WW2 two of Britain's most important industrial cities, Liverpool and Manchester were woefully unprotected from enemy bombing raids. Once the capitulation of France had occurred after Dunkirk, the Luftwaffe was able to base its vast bomber fleet at forward airfields that brought...
Bomber Squadron No 7
The World War II Record
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This is the story of one of the RAF's oldest and most distinguished heavy bomber squadrons in WW2, although an outline history of the unit since it was formed in WW1 and its post-war history are included. It was the first operational Stirling Squadron, the RAF's first four engine heavy bomber, and...
Taking Flight
Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a...
by Michael Bleriot
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
"There are two ways to land a plane safely on a jungle airstrip and Rufus McGee didn’t know either of them, which is why he crashed and strew airplane parts across half a mile of the only open patch of dirt within two hundred miles..."And that's just the START of the book! Aviation adventure in the...