Peter Dancey: 8 books

British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909 traces one hundred years of the British aviation industry, its history, origins, mergers and takeovers. It details the evolution of the British aviation industry and is an epitaph to household famous names such as Armstrong-Whitworth, de Havilland, Chadwick,...

In the late 1920sfighter contracts were obtained by Boeing for a navalized version of its P-12 Army Pursuit plane. Its F4B was for its day a superb fighter in terms of both performwance and agility

After many years gestatation the BAe 146 finally emergeded at BAe Commercial Aircraft Division at Hatfield in the late 1980's. As the "Whispering Jet' no one foresaw at the time that it would be Britain's last passenger jet aircraft

A complete history of the USAF 3rd AF in Britain post WW II. Units, bases, operations, the 'enmey' -- the Warpac, the LSK/LV and the Soviet 16th Air Army in East Germany. UK LOckheed U-2 spyplane and SR-71 Blackbird 'ops'. F-111's, the Libyan Raid, the48th FW. Soviet withdrawal and USAF drawdown....

This book is a history of Boeing 'Giants of the jet age'. It looks at the company and its secrets of success following the philosophy of its founder William Boeing. Its miraculous recovery on more than one occassion from bankruptcy. Its airplanes, WW I biplane trainers and fighters, piston and jet-engined...

This book provides a complete history of the clandestine WW II Luftwaffe and its origins under the patronage of Lufthansa, secret training of its personnel in Russia and Italy. Combat proving of its airplanes with the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War. Units, deployments, personel, airplanes...

Soviet aircraft industry was an essential part of the USSR’s campaign for global dominance in the twentieth century. Thanks to the thick fog of secrecy that enveloped it throughout the Cold War, it has long inspired the fascination of analysts and enthusiasts in the West; until the collapse of the...

The delta-wing design of the subsonic bomber Avro Vulcan was years ahead of its time in terms of design when the Ministry accepted the proposal in 1947. Based on top secret Luftwaffe material after the end of the Second World War, the first prototype flew on 18 May 1951 and it went on to serve in...