SAS. Say the name quietly. Formed at the height of World War Two, the Special Air Service has come to define the idea of the super soldier. Held in...

Space Shuttles In the aftermath of six Moon landings, and in a giant leap of faith with a largely reusable launch system, NASA pinned all its hopes...

Lines of the West Highlands The lines to the West Highlands start their journey in the heart of Central Scotland and were built to link up with por...

De Havilland Canada Whether in the snow, desert, jungle, on the water or at any regular airport, de Havilland Canada’s legendary transport aircraft...

Cold War Warriors (Warplanes On The Brink Of Global Conflict) - (Reissue 2014) The era from the Berlin Airlift of the late 1940s to 1989 when the p...

Since its foundation in the late 1930s, more than 55,000 aircraft of over 400 sub-types have been produced by the MiG Design Bureau. From Artem Mi...

Originally published in 2014, this popular special examines the Luftwaffe of World War Two right from the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Th...

The Secret Life of an Airport: Airside Showcasing many of the jobs often performed out of sight of the passengers, this book is an up close and per...

Class 50s During the mid-1960s, British Rail (BR) was looking to introduce a high-powered diesel locomotive to improve services on the West Coast M...

Lockheed Constellation NOTE: This is a new edition of Aeroplane Classic Airliner Constellation Prompted by a request from business magnate Howard ...

London Bus Routes One by One: 1 100 Though they seem as immutable and traditional as the city they serve, London’s bus routes are always changing....

Land Rover Series III The Series III Land Rover, an updated Series IIA, was launched in 1971 and offered an amalgamation of cosmetic and engineeri...

British Rail Shunters: From Corporate Blue to Sectorisation The role of British Rail’s (BR) diesel shunters was increasingly threatened by the la...

Soviet-Era Airliners When the Soviet Union fell in December 1991, there were close to 3,500 assorted Soviet-built airliners that could be deemed o...

Britain's Buses Volume 5 Focuses on the Leyland Olympian, a classic design from the 1980s and early 1990s and the last double-decker produced in vo...

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...

The US military stores more than 3,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at AMARG, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group facility. Ho...

Seattle Stratotanker Veterans: Boeing KC-135 Variants The first KC-135A was rolled out on July 18, 1956 – nearly 70 years ago – and, amazingly, hal...