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...

Boeing 737 The Boeing 737 was developed following the success of the 707 and 727, offering airlines an alternative to the larger models – ideal for...

HSTs: Around Britain: From 1990 to the Present Day For almost 50 years, High Speed Trains (HSTs) have been the mainstay for express services for ma...

Douglas C-124 Globemaster II: Long Beach’s Long Reach The C-124 served the United States Air Force for 25 years, delivering cargo and passengers to...

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

Airborne Early Warning Aircraft Airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft have become crucial to all air force air operations whenever they are engaged...

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...

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...

Air Traffic Control in the UK: Controlling the Skies Non Series; Air traffic controllers ensure the safe passage of aircraft in the skies over the ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Greater Manchester Transport: A Darker Shade of Orange Great change was afoot for Manchester’s buses in the 1970s. The region’s long-established mu...

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...

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 McDonnell Douglas was formed in 1967 when the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, the company that produced the F-4 Phantom sup...

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

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...

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....

125: The Jet Dragon That Roared The 125 was originally conceived in the 1960s. Initially, the response in Europe to a business jet was lukewarm, bu...

707: Boeing’s First Jetliner The first widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 707, brought America into the ‘Jet Age’ of the late 1950s and created...

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...

Iran Air: Flying the Homa The first Iranian airline was started in 1924 by German Hugo Junkers. When the Junkers company closed in 1936, Iranian mi...

Russian Air Power Russia has an extensive history of domestic military aircraft manufacture and a vast array of air power at its disposal. Despite ...