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Heritage DMUs: The Final Years At the beginning of the privatisation era of Britain’s railways, there was a pause in new rolling stock deliveries. ...

Air Forces of Latin America: Chile Chilean military aviation has a long history, but in the past 25 years it has experienced unprecedented growth, ...

Canals and Railways of Wiltshire A network of inland waterways criss-cross the length and breadth of the country. Constructed in the late 18th cent...

London Buses: Review of 1998 A quarter of a century ago, the red bus fleets of the former London Buses Ltd (LBL) were privatised. By 1998, the resu...

Roaring Texans The History of Texan Closed Course Pylon Racing, 1946–2023 Roaring Texans is a complete history of North American Aviation’s famous ...

Meteor: First-Generation Jet Fighter NOTE: This is a new book edition of Aeroplane Icons: Meteor. The story of the Gloster Meteor is one of the gre...

Class 159s: 30 Years’ Service By the late 1980s, the Class 50 and Class 47 locomotives working Network SouthEast’s West of England line from London...

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

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...

British Military Biplanes: 1920–40 Following the Great War, the fledgling aircraft industry was silenced as orders from the military disappeared an...

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...

Railways of Central Scotland: 40 Years of Change The last 40 years have witnessed wholesale upheaval in terms of motive power, rolling stock and in...

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 ...

Making the Range Rover Legend: The 1971–72 British Trans-Americas Expedition In 1971, a British Army team undertook the challenge of driving the Pa...

AC Electrics: 86, 87, 90 and DVTs Built in 1965–66, the 100 Class 86 electric locomotives worked passenger and freight trains on the newly electrif...

Republic F-105 Thunderchief Peacetime Operations The F-105 Thunderchief was primarily designed for tactical nuclear operations. For this reason, it...

Restoring Glory World War Two spawned the evolution of many different aircraft, as air forces fought to control the skies and to destroy their enem...

Dassault Super Etendard The Dassault Super Etendard had a remarkable career. It was a humble aircraft that was often faced with thankless and diff...

  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...

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 ...

Luftwaffe Bombers of World War Two A handful of German manufacturers dominated the market to design and build bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe of ...

Cornish Rail: St Austell to Penzance This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the beautiful ...

Boeing 727   Two years before the introduction of the Boeing 707 into service in 1958, designers at Boeing began to work on a short-/medium-range a...

Wellington: The Backbone of Bomber Command NOTE: This is a new book edition of Aeroplane Icons: Vickers Wellington In 1932, the British Air Ministr...