Aviation - General

The first mass-produced Soviet turbojet-powered fighter of the second-generation.

Author: Lechoslaw Musialkowski.

Publisher: Stratus.

Paperback. 104pp. 21cm by 29cm.

ISBN: 9788366549920

Weight: 411g

Original Price: £19/00

A Pictorial Display of Low Flying in Cumbria and Beyond.

Author: Scott Rathbone

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 24.5cm by 17.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399092784

Weight: 920g

Original Price: £35.00

Developed in the early 1950s to meet a Soviet Army requirement and first flown in June 1957, the Mi-6 was the largest-yet helicopter created in the Soviet Union. Its notable features included a power-plant consisting of two turbo-shaft engines (for the first time on a Soviet helicopter) and stub wings offloading the main rotor in forward flight; the cabin was big enough to accommodate artillery systems and tactical ballistic missiles.

Author: Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Komissarov

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 96pp. 21cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9781473823891

Weight: 0.424Kg

Original Price: £16.99

On 20 April 1941, a group of distinguished Americans headed by the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, John Winant, and which included Major General Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold, Chief of the US Army Air Corps, visited the de Havilland Aircraft Company’s airfield at Hatfield, England.

Author: Tony Fairbairn

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399017336

Weight. 0.831kg

Original Price: £25.00

Naval aviation arrived early in the last century in the form of balloons and airships employed by the British Royal Navy for reconnaissance, and interest was stirring in naval circles in a greater aeronautical capacity for the service.

Author: Philip Kaplan.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 15.6x23.3x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781399075053

Weight: 350g

Original Price: £14.99

The Authorised Operational History of the Army Air Corps, 1957-2017

Author: John Greenacre, Mike Peters

Publisher: Helion

Hardback. 384pp. 17.5cm by 26cm.

ISBN: 9781804515341

Weight: 1.28kg

Original Price: £35.00

This intriguing look at the early days of British aviation, which includes the first ever aircraft factory in Britain in the railway arches at Battersea; Larkhill on Salisbury Plain which became the British Army’s first airfield, and Barking Creek where Frederick Handley Page established his first factory.

Author: Bruce Hales-Dutton.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526750150

Weight: 580

Original Price: £19.99

In July 2018, the nation looked skyward over Buckingham Palace in awe as the Royal Air Force celebrated its first 100 years with a spectacular parade and flypast over London. This event demonstrated a very different perspective of the RAF; well away from its operational commitments.

Author: Keith Wilson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 472pp. 22x28x3.2cm.

ISBN: 9781526752185

Weight: 2kg

Original Price: £50.00

The RAF's first night fighter airfield WWII to the Cold War.

Author: Anthony J. Moor.

Publisher: Air World.

Hardback. 444pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526753236

Original Price: £25.00

Supermarine's last fighter.

Author: Richard A Franks.

Publisher: Dalrymple & Verdun Publishing.

Paperback. 120pp. 21cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781905414109

Original Price: £19.95

Willy Messerschmitt and the Development of History's First Operational Jet Fighter.

Author: James Neal Harvey.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 402pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781612008929

Weight: 698

Original Price: £18.99

The inside story behind the best aviation archeology TV documentaries.

Author: Simon Parry.

Publisher: Red Kite.

Paperback. 128pp. 17cm by 21cm.

ISBN 9780955473555

Original Price: £19.95