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Aviation Quiz Book DO YOU KNOW… ·                     Which Russian aircraft has the NATO reporting name Hoplite? ·                     What the Lo...

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...

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...

Class 67s In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) ordered a large fleet of 250 Class 66 locomotives to replace a variety of ...

French Naval Aviation Over the last two decades, the Aéronautique Navale, French Naval Aviation, has grown into a powerful and battle-hardened forc...

Finnair Aero Oy, which was later rebranded as Finnair, is one of the oldest surviving airlines in the world. It was established in 1923 and started...

The Paras in Afghanistan In 2021, the British Army’s 20-year engagement in Afghanistan ended with chaotic scenes at Kabul International Airport. Th...

Railways of South and West Scotland The West Coast Main Line and the line from Kilmarnock south to Gretna were both built to ensure that passenger ...

British 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...

Lockheed C-141 Starlifter Loved by most associated personnel and enthusiasts alike, the C-141 Starlifter, quite simply, looked right and was right....

London Bus Routes One by One: 301–969 In times of old, the numbers 300–499 were restricted to the green buses of the London Transport Country Area,...

  Spanish Air Force Aircraft, 1939–2021 The Spanish Air Force was born after the Spanish Civil War, in October 1939. Starting life from the ashes o...

Water Bombers Combatting the world’s forest fires from the air is the remit of water bomber aircraft. This book reviews the past and the current se...

Turkish Airlines: The Istanbul Superconnector Turkish Airlines’ origins go back to 1933, when the Turkish government established the State Airlines...

Rail Freight: Scotland In the early 1980s, Ravenscraig steel works was the biggest source of rail freight north of the border. Wagonload freight st...

Railways of South West Scotland: Two Generations of Photography Two generations of railway photography of the southwest of Scotland from 1960–80 an...

US Air Forces in Europe: The 1980s The US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) rapidly expanded its presence in the 1980s, as it became the most dangerous ...

Military Jeeps In 2021, the Jeep celebrated its 80th anniversary. Without doubt it is one of the world’s most famous automobiles. The utility 4x4 m...

West Coast Main Line Locomotive Haulage The West Coast Main Line (WCML), which runs from London Euston to Glasgow Central with branches to Manchest...

Class 59s In the mid-1980s, one of British Rail’s major customers of heavy block trains, Foster Yeoman, suggested the unusual arrangement of runnin...

Low-Floor Double-Deckers In just under 25 years, double-deck buses in the UK have undergone a transformation. Every double-decker in standard servi...

British Midland Airways British Midland Airways existed under different identities for more than 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying ...

North Korean Aviation: An Eyewitness Account In 2016, North Korea hosted its first airshow and invited foreign visitors to watch. Unlike most airsh...

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