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Pathfinders: The Definitive Story Pathfinders is a new history of Bomber Command’s corps d’elite and the men who led the greatest striking force ev...

Jet: The Engine that Changed the World The invention of the jet engine had a profound effect on the world. Commercial jet aircraft revolutionised t...

Bristol Beaufighter: Wartime Operations of the Mighty Twin; Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 22 Authored By: Graham Pitchfork; Pages: 128pp ...

Douglas DC-8; Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol 7 The Douglas DC-8, which began life in the 1950s as the Douglas Model 1881, became availabl...

All decades of aviation have important developments and changes. In the 2000s, the European Airbus consortium finally overtook Boeing as the major ...

BAC One-Eleven; Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol 9 Please note: this is a new book edition of Aeroplane Classic Airliner: BAC One-Eleven. O...

Britain has been at the forefront of weapons technology since the industrial revolution began and, with the Brennan wire-guided torpedo, pioneered ...

Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol 10 This book explores the reconnaissance aircraft used by the British armed forces in the 1970s and ’80s, na...

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol 17 The Lockheed Blackbird family – the A-12, YF-12, and SR-71 – were the most rem...

Airlines Series, Vol. 6 Founded in 1927 by German immigrant Otto Ernst Meyer, Varig was one of Brazil’s earliest airlines. Serving a domestic netwo...

Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol. 23 192 Pages Please note: This is a new book edition of Aeroplane Icons: Sunderland In the early 1900s, Sho...

Aircraft 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...

The first traces of Polish aviation can be found in 1910. However, one of the first fully domestic airlines, under the name of Aerolloyd, was forme...

Cubana: A Caribbean Survivor; Airlines Series, Vol. 10 Authored by: Barry Lloyd Pages: 96 In October 2022, Cubana de Aviación celebrated its 93rd b...

Lysander; Historic Military Aircraft Series, Vol 20 Please note: this is a new book edition of Aeroplane Icons: Lysander The Westland Lysander is o...

DO YOU KNOW… Which Russian aircraft has the NATO reporting name Hoplite? What the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is known as in Israeli Air For...

Finnair; Airlines Series, Volume 5 Aero Oy, which was later rebranded as Finnair, is one of the oldest surviving airlines in the world. The airline...

Lockheed Constellation; Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol. 8 Please note: This is a new edition of Aeroplane Classic Airliner Constellation ...

B-17G Flying Fortress The B-17 Flying Fortress was conceived by the well-known US aviation designer and manufacturer Boeing during the 1930s, princ...

125: The Jet Dragon that Roared; Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol 11 The 125 was originally conceived in the 1960s. Initially, the response...

Travis Air Force Base: The USAF’s Transport Superbase in Action Travis Air Force Base, situated in Fairfield, California, is the “Gateway to the Pa...

Flybe; Airlines Series, Vol 12 Authored by: Nigel Richardson 96 pages Established in 1979 as Jersey European Airways from the merger of Intra Airwa...

Iran Air: Flying the Homa -  Airlines Series, Vol 9 The first Iranian airline was started in 1924 by German Hugo Junkers. When the Junkers company ...

Concorde; Historic Commercial Aircraft Series, Vol 10 Please note: This is a new book edition of Aeroplane Classic Airliner: Concorde The desire fo...