Key Books

Air Forces of Latin America: Colombia Colombian military aviation is one of the most powerful in Latin America and comprises aviation divisions fro...

Airliners of the 2000s Each decade in aviation’s history has brought important developments and changes. In the 2000s, the European Airbus consorti...

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...

B-25 Mitchell NOTE: This is a new edition of the much-loved Combat Machines No 2 B-25 Mitchell. If the North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell had on...

British Reconnaissance Aircraft of the 1970s and ’80s This book explores the reconnaissance aircraft used by the British armed forces in the 1970s ...

British Aircraft of the Falklands War The Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 ...

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

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...

British Aviation: The First Half-Century In Colour The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the aeroplane and its development as an inst...

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

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

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...

Britain’s Military Helicopters A key component in any armed force, helicopters operate in a range of roles. Thanks to their ability to go anywhere...

Avro 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...

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...

Hungarian Arms and Armour of WW2 Between the world wars, Hungary was a relatively small country aiming to recover territory lost because of World W...

Aircraft 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 ...

Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by the Ethiopian government with the assistance of western airlines. With a fleet of war-...

Fall of the Luftwaffe in Colour Meticulously researched over the course of 20 years, this colour rendition of the Luftwaffe’s Eagles in defeat accu...

Avro Vulcan: The Early Years, 1947–64 Advances in aerodynamics and jet engine technology after World War Two led to the RAF requesting a bomber tha...

Garuda Indonesia On 26 January 1949, Garuda Indonesia was officially established as Indonesia’s government-owned flag carrier. To begin with, the ...

Hawker Typhoon Although first designed as a fighter, during the fighting in and over Europe during 1944 and 1945, the Hawker Typhoon gained a trem...

Fairey Firefly A portrait of one of the Royal Navy’s most effective aircraft; the Fairey Firefly, two-seater, strike-fighter, emerged from a troub...

British Bombers of the 1970s and ’80s The mainstays of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) bomber force in the 1970s and ’80s were the distinctive Avro Vu...