Tony Blackman: 16 books
by Tony Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Tony Blackman OBE, MA FRAeS was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics. He learnt to fly in the RAF, trained as a test pilot, and then joined A V Roe where he became chief test pilot.
As an expert in aviation electronics he was...
Nimrod Boys
True Tales from the Operators of the RAF’s Cold War Trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019
Nimrod Boys is a complementary book to Nimrod Rise and Fall from acclaimed author Tony Blackman. It is a collection of over twenty firsthand accounts of operating the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod – an aircraft which served at the forefront of the Cold War. As the first jet-powered maritime aircraft, it...
Vulcan Test Pilot My Experiences in the Cockpit of a Cold War Icon
My Experiences in the Cockpit of a Cold War Icon
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
In 2007 a restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2 XH558 took to the skies to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. To coincide with this the memoirs of one of its test pilots, Tony Blackman, was published to great acclaim. Now the first book about test flying this monumental delta-wing...
by Tony Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The scrapping of the Nimrod program has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year.
For most of its operational life, from 1969 to date, its contribution to the defense of the realm and its role in offensive duties was, of necessity, often shrouded...
Flight Testing to Win
An autobiograpghy of a test pilot
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
No aircraft is absolutely safe. This book is about Aviation, from learning to fly, becoming a test pilot, flight testing, demonstrating on some of the third world's worst airfields, then specializing in Avionics and finally joining the Board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, helping to formulate...
Blind Landing
Sydney to London Dead Stop
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Blind Landing is a detective mystery aviation thriller about the latest super jumbo aircraft that crashes at London Airport after a non-stop flight from Sydney. The story is woven around an aviation expert, Peter Talbert, his lawyer girl friend and the beautiful girl on the beach in Sydney who gives...
Now You See It
and now you don't
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
This book is the fifth in an aviation mystery series featuring Peter Talbert insurance investigator. Two aircraft crash in fog on opposite sides of the World, in New York and Hong Kong. Talbert discovers that things are lot more complicated and dangerous than they seem. Meanwhile he applies to be...
The Right Choice
An aviation story of deceit and disaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
The Right Choice describes a competition between two manufacturers trying to sell their latest aircraft to an airline in the Philippines, both firms desperate to win. In the real world many tales are told about how such competitions are won and lost using every trick available. The contest in this...
The Final Flight
A Bermuda Triangle Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
This book is a Bermuda Triangle Mystery. A modern airliner flying from the Caribbean to Bermuda carrying 10 priceless impressionist paintings disappears near Bermuda. Peter Talbert, aviation expert and working for the airline, investigates the loss of the aircraft. He meets an art insurance specialist...
by Tony Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Java Waters Run Deep, set a few years ahead, is an aviation mystery. An airliner flying from Singapore to Adelaide disappears off the Air Traffic Controllers’ screen 250 miles before crossing the Australian Coast. A bomb was suspected but Peter Talbert, aviation insurance expert, didn't believe...
V Force Boys
All New Reminiscences by Air and Ground Crews Operating the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant in the Cold War and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War. The Valiant was less aerodynamically advanced than the other two and went into service in 1955. The Vulcan...
Victor Boys
True Stories from Forty Memorable Years of the Last V Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Moreover, in 1982 it was only the Victor tanker fleet based on Ascension Island that made possible the Vulcan Black Buck...
Vulcan Boys
From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
An in-depth look at these Cold War–era bombers, in the words of those who flew them—includes photos.
The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the United Kingdom during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape as instantly recognizable...
Dire Strait
Murder, Mayhem and Skulduggery
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Tony Blackman, has written a very unusual story about a mystery submarine in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea. A Royal Australian Air Force aircraft is lost in the Torres Strait and the wreckage is found by a Royal Air Force aircraft on an exercise with the Australians....
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