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100 Years of the RAF Air Display: 1920-2020

100 Years of the RAF Air Display: 1920-2020

Author: Ian Smith Watson

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 320pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781558430

Weight: 1.035kg

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £12.99 

20th Century Passenger Flying Boats

20th Century Passenger Flying Boats

A fast-moving journey from the first pioneers to the very last use of such craft in regions still reliant on waterborne communication with the outside world.

Author: Leslie Dawson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 128pp. 17.8cm by 25.4cm.

ISBN: 9781526744203

Weight: 479g

Original Price: £19.99

Price:    £6.99 

Apollo 11 - The Moon Landing in Real Time

Apollo 11 - The Moon Landing in Real Time

Half a century has passed since arguably the greatest feat of the twentieth century: when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11: The Moon Landing In Real Time brings the mission back to life as never before in a thrilling day-by-day account, exploring everything from the historic flight itself to how the $24billion space programme divided a nation.

Author: Ian Passingham

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 266pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781526748560

Weight: 800g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £6.99 

Archaeology of the Royal Flying Corps, The

Archaeology of the Royal Flying Corps, The

Trench Art, Souvenirs and Lucky Mascots (Modern Conflict Archaeology).

Author: Melanie Winterton

Publisher: Pen &Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399097260

Weight: 566g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £6.99 

Berlin Airlift, The

Berlin Airlift, The

The World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation

Author: John Grehan

Publisher: Air World

Paperback. 144pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526758262

Weight: 620g

Original Price: £15.99

Price:    £7.99 

Best of Breed.

Best of Breed.

The Hunter in fighter reconnaissance.

Author: Group Captain Nigel Wlpole OBE BA FRAeS Raf (Ret'd).

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback.240 pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526784322

Weight: 554

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £6.99 

Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Flight Craft 29

Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Flight Craft 29

The B-29 Superfortress was the definitive expression in piston-powered offensive air power.

Author: Ben Skipper

Publisher: Air World

Paperback. 96pp. 21cm by 29.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399040648

Weight: 500g

Original Price: £18.99

Price:    £6.99 

Boulton Paul 1917-1961: Aircraft, Projects and Studies

Boulton Paul 1917-1961: Aircraft, Projects and Studies

A prolific output of proposals, trials and inventions. From biplane fighters through the novel turret fighters and into the supersonic age with VTOL lift-fan jets, Boulton Paul were always at the forefront of development.

Author: Les Whitehouse

Publisher: Crecy

Hardback. pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781910809488

Weight: 1.48kg

Original Price: £27.95

Price:    £12.99 

Boulton Paul Aircraft Since 1915

Boulton Paul Aircraft Since 1915

The ancient Norwich firm of Boulton & Paul were brought into aircraft construction in 1915, and quickly became one of the great innovators.

Author: Alec Brew

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 448pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781557518

Weight: 1.167kg

Original Price: £45.00

Price:    £18.99 

Early Jet Fighters - British and American 1944-1954

Early Jet Fighters - British and American 1944-1954

In almost 200 archive photographs Leo Marriott traces the course of the development of British and American jet fighters during the first pioneering decade of their production. In many ways the period from 1944 to 1954 was one of the most exciting and innovative in the history of military aviation. 

Author:

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 134pp. 19x24.5x1cm.

ISBN: 9781526727770

Weight: 400g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £4.99 

Early Jet Fighters: European and Soviet, 1944-1954

Early Jet Fighters: European and Soviet, 1944-1954

Author: Leo Marriott

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 160pp. 18.4cm by 24.1cm.

ISBN: 9781526753939

Weight: 416g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £4.99 

Echoes from Dawn Skies - Early Aviators

Echoes from Dawn Skies - Early Aviators

A Lost Manuscript Rediscovered.

No one could doubt that Frederick Warren Merriam was one of the earliest and most important of Britain's aviation pioneers. For more than sixty years his manuscript lay hidden away, all but forgotten, until it was rediscovered in 2013.

Author: Frederick Warren Merriam

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526726209

Weight: 732g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £7.99 

Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research Flying

Experimental Test Pilot: Military Aircraft Research Flying

This book is Chris' account of his ten years' service as an experimental test pilot, from 1994 until 2004, at MoD Boscombe Down.

Author: Chris Taylor

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 274pp.16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399048859

Weight: 869g

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £9.99 

Flying Light Helicopters with the Royal Marines.

Flying Light Helicopters with the Royal Marines.

This is a vivid first-hand account of military rotary wing flying which will appeal to aircrew both civil and military, aviation enthusiasts and military historians.

Author: Col Robert Wilsey.

Publisher: Air World.

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399002509

Weight: 677

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £7.99 

From Lightnings to MiGs

From Lightnings to MiGs

From Cold War to Air Speed Records

Author: Squadron Leader Russell Peart AFC WKhM

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 272pp. 16.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399007474

Weight: 800g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office

From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office

The Memoirs of Air Commodore J F 'Johnny' Langer CBE AFC DL.

Author: J F Langer

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 288pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074889

Weight: 670g

Original Price: £15.99

Price:    £6.99 

Gloster Javelin, History of the

Gloster Javelin, History of the

The First All Weather British Fighter.

Author: Ian Smith Watson

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 240pp. 18.5cm by 26cm.

ISBN: 9781781553749

Weight: .768g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £11.99 

Goldstar Century - 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015.

Goldstar Century - 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015.

A complete history, relayed in a style that is both celebratory and objective.

Author: Ian Hall.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 348pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781783400584

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £6.99 

Hawker Hunter: A Classic British Jet Fighter

Hawker Hunter: A Classic British Jet Fighter

The Hawker Hunter was Britain's first swept-wing jet fighter capable of exceeding the speed of sound. It was a simple, rugged design that was easy to maintain in service.

Author: Philip Birtles

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 320pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781558935

Weight: 957g

Original Price: £35.00

Price:    £14.99 

High Hulls: Flying Boats of the 1930s and 1940s

High Hulls: Flying Boats of the 1930s and 1940s

Delving deeply into a long-vanished part of aviation's golden age.

Author: Charles Bain

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 336pp. 17.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781556917

Weight: 997g

Original Price: £40.00

Price:    £15.99 

Howard's Whirlybirds

Howard's Whirlybirds

Howard Hughes' Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits

Author: Donald J. Porter

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781781554197

Weight: 392g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £8.99 

Ilyushin Il-2, Spotlight on

Ilyushin Il-2, Spotlight on

Author: Viktor Povinsky

Publisher: MMP

Hardback. 41pp. 21.5cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9788365958686

Weight: 464g

Original Price: £19.00

Price:    £6.99 

Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning, The

Men Who Flew the English Electric Lightning, The

A fine record of the last truly great all-British fighter.

Author: Martin W Bowman

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526705648

Weight: 626g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Military Low-Level Flying From F-4 Phantom to F-35 Lightning II

Military Low-Level Flying From F-4 Phantom to F-35 Lightning II

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

Price:    £14.99 

Mosquito in the USAAF, The.

Mosquito in the USAAF, The.

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

Price:    £9.99 

Mystery of Missing Flight F-BELV

Mystery of Missing Flight F-BELV

This book examines all aspects of the Vietnam War, particularly the events of 1965, and how tensions in the region heightened as the first American combat troops arrived in Vietnam.

Author: Stephen Wynn

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473845954

Weight: 430g

Original Price: £19.99

Price:    £7.99 

NAA P-51 Mustang: The Cadillac of the Skies, Spotlight On, 26

NAA P-51 Mustang: The Cadillac of the Skies, Spotlight On, 26

Spotlight On, 26. The book contains 20 color plates showing 20 famous P-51 Mustang fighters depicted in the air.

Author: Tomasz Kaca

Publisher: MMP Books

Hardback. 44pp. 21.5cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9788367227025

Weight: 497g

Original Price: £19.00

Price:    £6.99 

Ops Normal - Volume 1

Ops Normal - Volume 1

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

Price:    £16.99 

Pioneering Places of British Aviation.

Pioneering Places of British Aviation.

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

Price:    £6.99 

RAF Manston 1916-1930, A Detailed History of

RAF Manston 1916-1930, A Detailed History of

Author: Joe Bamford, John Williams

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 192pp. 15.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781781550946

Weight: 381g

Original Price: £18.99

Price:    £8.99 

RAF Manston 1945-1999, A Detailed History of

RAF Manston 1945-1999, A Detailed History of

Author: Joe Bamford, John Williams, Peter Gallagher

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 192pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781781557648

Weight: 369g

Original Price: £20.00

Price:    £8.99 

RAF Tanker Navigator

RAF Tanker Navigator

This book gives a rare insight into the life inside the tanker squadrons of the Royal Air Force, viewed through the eyes of Tony Golds, one of the RAF tanker fleet's longest serving Navigator/Plotters.

Author: Peter Bodle, Tony Golds

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399074971

Weight: 350g

Original Price: £14.99

Price:    £6.99 

Royal Aircraft Factory, The

Royal Aircraft Factory, The

The story of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, forerunner of the World’s premier aeronautical research establishment.

Author: Paul R. Hare

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 384pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781558416

Weight: 1.104kg

Original Price: £35.00

Price:    £14.99 

Royal Auxiliary Air Force, The

Royal Auxiliary Air Force, The

Commemorating 100 Years of Service.

Author: Frances Louise Wilkinson, Squadron Leader Tony Freeman RAuxaF (Retd)

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399062183

Weight: 600g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Safety is No Accident

Safety is No Accident

From 'V' Bombers to Concorde: A Flight Test Engineer's Story

Author: John R W Smith

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 288pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526769442

Weight: 1.023kg

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Scimitar.

Scimitar.

Supermarine's last fighter.

Author: Richard A Franks.

Publisher: Dalrymple & Verdun Publishing.

Paperback. 120pp. 21cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781905414109

Original Price: £19.95

Price:    £7.99 

Soviet Aircraft Industry

Soviet Aircraft Industry

Author: Peter G. Dancey

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781781552896

Weight: 627g

Original Price: £35.00

Price:    £14.99 

Supermarine Southampton.

Supermarine Southampton.

The flying boat that made RJ Mitchell.

Author: Jo Hillman & Colin Higgs.

Publisher: Air World.

Hardback. 232pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526784940

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £7.99 

Supersonic BONE, The

Supersonic BONE, The

A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber

Author: Kenneth Katz

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 384pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399020299

Weight: 1.3kg

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £9.99 

Test Pilots of the Jet Age

Test Pilots of the Jet Age

Men Who Heralded a New Era in Aviation

Author: Colin Higgs, Bruce Vigar

Publisher: Air World

Hardback. 256pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526747754

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £19.99

Price:    £7.99 

Thunder Through the Valleys

Thunder Through the Valleys

Low Level Flying-Low Level Photography

Author: Philip Stevens

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 192pp. 24.5cm by 22.5cm.

ISBN: 9781781557372

Weight: 461g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £11.99 

Tupolev Tu-2, Sukhoi UTB-2, Shcherbakov Shche-2.

Tupolev Tu-2, Sukhoi UTB-2, Shcherbakov Shche-2.

Polish Wings number 28.

Author: Lechoslaw Musialkowski.

Publisher: Stratus.

Paperback. 80pp. 21cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9788365958877

Original Price: £15.00

Price:    £6.99 

Turbojet, The Early History and Development of the

Turbojet, The Early History and Development of the

History and Development 1930-1960 - Volume 2.

USSR, USA, Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy & Hungary.

Author: Antony L. Kay

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Hardback. 269pp. 22.5cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781861269393

Weight: 1.22kg

Original Price: £40.00

Price:    £9.99 

US Naval Aviation, 1945-2003

US Naval Aviation, 1945-2003

Rare Photographs from Naval Archives

Author: Leo Marriott

Publisher: Air World

Paperback. 192pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399062572

Weight: 530g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £6.99 

U.S. Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4, The

U.S. Navy-Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4, The

An Account of the First Transatlantic Flight

Author: Richard V. Simpson

Publisher: Fonthill

Paperback. 128pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781625450098

Weight: 336g

Original Price: £18.99

Price:    £8.99 

Vickers Viscount, The: The World's First Turboprop Airliner

Vickers Viscount, The: The World's First Turboprop Airliner

By some margin the most successful British medium-range airliner ever produced.

Author: Nick Stroud

Publisher: Air World

Paperback. 120pp. 18.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526701954

Weight: 350g

Original Price: £16.99

Price:    £8.99 

Vickers Wellington

Vickers Wellington

This book covers the design, development, production and operational service of the Vickers Wellington from before the Second World War through to the 1950s.

Author: Philip Birtles

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 256pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781781558683

Weight: 760g

Original Price: £30.00

Price:    £12.99 

Zeppelin: The Story of Lighter-Than-Air Craft

Zeppelin: The Story of Lighter-Than-Air Craft

The author of this book was close to the Zeppelin story from its early days. It is sadly ironic that this talented man and strong advocate of the Zeppelin should die in Hindenburg disaster shortly after he had produced the draft for this book.

Author: Ernst A. Lehmann

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 352pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781781550120

Weight: 933g

Original Price: £25.00

Price:    £12.99 

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