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Air Forces of Latin America: Colombia
Key Publishing LtdColombian military aviation is one of the most powerful in Latin America and comprises aviation divisions from four branches: the Fuerza Aérea Colo...
View full detailsAirliners of the 2000s
Key Publishing LtdAll decades of aviation have important developments and changes. In the 2000s, the European Airbus consortium finally overtook Boeing as the major ...
View full detailsAircraft Engine Test Beds
Key Publishing LtdAircraft Engine Test Beds: British Jet Fighters and Bombers During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a number of British jet fighter and bomber ai...
View full detailsClass 66/0
Key Publishing LtdBritain’s Railways Series, Vol. 32 In the late 1990s, most of the current locomotives in use on the national network were becoming very tired and ...
View full detailsBritain's Preserved Railways
Key Publishing LtdThe preserved heritage museum railways of Britain are thriving. Not only is there continuing nostalgia for the steam locomotives of a bygone era, b...
View full detailsB-25 Mitchell
Key Publishing LtdIf the North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell had only participated in the Doolittle Raid, it would have cemented its place in history – but it did ...
View full detailsBritish Reconnaissance Aircraft of the 1970s and '80s
Key Publishing LtdHistoric Military Aircraft Series, Vol 10 This book explores the reconnaissance aircraft used by the British armed forces in the 1970s and ’80s, na...
View full detailsBritish Aircraft of the Falklands War
Key Publishing LtdBritish Aircraft of the Falklands War The Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 ...
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Key Publishing LtdBritain’s Railways Series, Vol 31 Grand Central is an innovative and pioneering railway open-access operator with a relatively short, but varied hi...
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Key Publishing LtdClass 67sBritain’s Railways Series, Vol 30; In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) ordered a large fleet of 250 Class 66 lo...
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Key Publishing LtdFrench Naval Aviation Modern Military Aircraft Series, Vol 7Over the last two decades, the Aéronautique Navale, French Naval Aviation, has grown in...
View full detailsBritish Interwar Aircraft
Key Publishing LtdBritish Interwar Aircraft When the RAF was formed in 1918, Great Britain boasted the largest air force in the world, but it was not to last. As soo...
View full detailsBritish Aviation: The First Half Century
Key PublishingBritish Aviation: The First Half-Century (In Colour)The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the aeroplane and its development as an ins...
View full detailsClass 59s
Key Publishing LtdClass 59sIn the mid-1980s, one of British Rail’s major customers of heavy block trains, Foster Yeoman, suggested the unusual arrangement of running...
View full detailsBritish Midland Airways
Key Publishing LtdBritish Midland AirwaysAirlines Series, Vol 3British Midland Airways existed under different identities for over 70 years, during which time it gre...
View full detailsAMARG:Americas Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve
Key Publishing LtdAMARG: America’s Strategic Military Aircraft ReserveThe US military stores more than 3,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at AMARG, the 309th Aeros...
View full detailsBoeing 707
Key Publishing LtdBoeing 707: Boeing’s First Jetliner; Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Volume 2The first widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 707, brought Ame...
View full detailsHornby Magazine Yearbook No.14 Hardback
Key Publishing LtdHornby Magazine Yearbook No. 14 - 2022 Hardback Collector s EditionThe fourteenth edition of the Hornby Magazine Yearbook features 128 pages of mod...
View full detailsClass 442: The Wessex Electrics
Key Publishing LtdClass 442s: The Wessex Electrics Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 27First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had bee...
View full detailsCLASS 47s: From Inverness to Penzance 1982-85
Key Publishing LtdClass 47s: From Inverness to Penzance, 1982 -85 Book Britain's Railways Series: Volume 5 The Class 47 diesel locomotives were a mainstay of British...
View full detailsCornish Railways: St Austell to Penzance
Key Publishing LtdCornish Railways: St Austell to Penzance Britain's Railways Series: Volume 6 This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, fol...
View full detailsBristol Lodekka Book
Key Publishing LtdBristol Lodekka Book Britain's Buses Series: Volume 3 PLEASE NOTE: This book is a re-issue of the much-loved title, Bristol Lodekka: In colour. Lod...
View full detailsBritain's Military Helicopters
Key Publishing LtdBritain's Military Helicopters Modern Military Aircraft Series, Volume 4 A key component in any armed force, helicopters operate in a range of role...
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Key Publishing LtdAvro 748: Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol 3 The 748 was a highly successful commercial airliner, that since the 1960s had been responsible...
View full detailsClassic British Motorcycles: Illustrated History
Key Publishing LtdClassic British Motorcycles: An Illustrated History Classic Vehicles Series, Volume 4 Classic British motorcycles were more than simple machines, t...
View full detailsCanadian Pacific in the Rockies
Key Publishing LtdCanadian Pacific in the Rockies The Canadian Pacific Railway was built to unite all the Canadian Provinces with a transcontinental line running fro...
View full detailsB-17G Flying Fortress
Key Publishing LtdB-17G Flying Fortress The B-17 Flying Fortress was conceived by the well-known US aviation designer and manufacturer Boeing during the 1930s, princ...
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Key Publishing LtdClass 70s Britain s Railways Series, Volume 16 In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and...
View full detailsCzech and Slovak Railways
Key Publishing LtdCzech and Slovak Railways: Three Decades of Change, 1990 2020s World Railways Series, Volume 2 The Czech Republic and Slovakia emerged as independe...
View full detailsHungarian Arms and Armour of WW2
Key Publishing LtdHungarian Arms and Armour of World War Two Modern Wars Series; Volume 3 Between the world wars, Hungary was a relatively small country aiming to re...
View full detailsAircraft of Red Flag: Air-to-Air Exercises
Key Publishing LtdAircraft of Red Flag: The Ultimate Air-to-Air Combat Exercises Red Flag is the world s premier air-to-air combat exercise. Run by the US Air Force ...
View full detailsEthiopian Airlines
Key Publishing LtdEthiopian Airlines: The African Aviation Powerhouse; Airlines Series, Volume 2 Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by the Ethiopian government w...
View full detailsMustang: The Untold Story
Key Publishing LtdMustang: The Untold Story The North American Mustang is one of the most well-studied aircraft. However, much of what is commonly understood about i...
View full detailsFall of the Luftwaffe in Colour
Key Publishing LtdFall of the Luftwaffe in colour Book Meticulously researched over the course of 20 years, this colour rendition of the Luftwaffe's Eagles in defeat...
View full detailsHSTs: The Western Region
Key Publishing LtdHSTs: The Western Region Britain s Railways Series: Volume 12 Although in the late 1970s they were frowned upon by many for replacing a number of l...
View full detailsAvro Vulcan The Early Years 1947-64
Key Publishing LtdAvro Vulcan: The Early Years, 1947 - 64 Historic Military Aircraft Series, Volume 7 Advances in aerodynamics and jet engine technology after World ...
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