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Aviation Quiz Book
Key Publishing LtdAviation Quiz Book DO YOU KNOW… · Which Russian aircraft has the NATO reporting name Hoplite? · What the Lo...
View full detailsClass 67s
Key Publishing LtdClass 67s In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) ordered a large fleet of 250 Class 66 locomotives to replace a variety of ...
View full detailsFrench Naval Aviation
Key Publishing LtdFrench Naval Aviation Over the last two decades, the Aéronautique Navale, French Naval Aviation, has grown into a powerful and battle-hardened forc...
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 detailsClass 59s
Key Publishing LtdClass 59s In the mid-1980s, one of British Rail’s major customers of heavy block trains, Foster Yeoman, suggested the unusual arrangement of runnin...
View full detailsBritish Midland Airways
Key Publishing LtdBritish Midland Airways British Midland Airways existed under different identities for more than 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying ...
View full detailsAMARG:Americas Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve
Key Publishing LtdThe US military stores more than 3,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at AMARG, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group facility. Ho...
View full detailsBoeing 707
Key Publishing Ltd707: 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...
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 442: The Wessex Electrics First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had been seen before in terms of Southern...
View full detailsCLASS 47s: From Inverness to Penzance 1982-85
Key Publishing LtdClass 47s: From Inverness to Penzance 1982–85 The Class 47 diesel locomotives were a mainstay of British Rail with 512 built in the 1960s. They wer...
View full detailsCornish Railways: St Austell to Penzance
Key Publishing LtdCornish Rail: St Austell to Penzance This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the beautiful ...
View full detailsBristol Lodekka Book
Key Publishing LtdBristol Lodekka NOTE: This book is a re-issue of the much-loved title Bristol Lodekka in colour. Lodekka buses first appeared in service in the l...
View full detailsBritain's Military Helicopters
Key Publishing LtdBritain’s Military Helicopters A key component in any armed force, helicopters operate in a range of roles. Thanks to their ability to go anywhere...
View full detailsAvro 748
Key Publishing LtdAvro 748 The 748 was a highly successful commercial airliner, and since the 1960s had been the go-to aircraft to open new air routes in many corner...
View full detailsClassic British Motorcycles: Illustrated History
Key Publishing LtdClassic British Motorcycles: An Illustrated History From its origins at the turn of the 20th century, British motorcycle manufacturing developed to...
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 detailsClass 70s
Key Publishing LtdClass 70s In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and fuel-efficient locomotives. The new...
View full detailsCzech and Slovak Railways
Key Publishing LtdCzech and Slovak Railways: Three Decades of Change, 1990–2020s The Czech Republic and Slovakia emerged as independent countries in 1993, as joint ...
View full detailsHungarian Arms and Armour of WW2
Key Publishing LtdHungarian Arms and Armour of WW2 Between the world wars, Hungary was a relatively small country aiming to recover territory lost because of World W...
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 Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by the Ethiopian government with the assistance of western airlines. With a fleet of war-...
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 Meticulously researched over the course of 20 years, this colour rendition of the Luftwaffe’s Eagles in defeat accu...
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