Aviation & Space

The writing of this book, the first in-depth and fully detailed research about the early years of the Chel Ha'avir - from the light-plane days to the supersonic fighters received roughly ten years later - is the culmination of a long research period by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982128210Author Douglas WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903630211Author Hugh HarkinsFormat PaperbackImprint Centurion PublishingPublisher Centurion Publishing

German long-range anti-shipping aircraft was also used as Hitler's personal aircraft.Book InformationISBN 9780887402357Author Paul ReinertFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 0g

The development of non-rigid, semi-rigid and rigid airships from pre-WWI to WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887401992Author Heinz J. NowarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 408g

Over 6000 made for a variety of uses including assault and night-fighter.Book InformationISBN 9780887402869Author Werner HeldFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Schiffer MilitaryPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1315g

This book covers both in photographs and text the various rocket launchers used by Germany in WWII.About the AuthorWolfgang Schneider has written widely on the development and history of armored vehicles. He was a tank officer in the German Army.Book...

This book is a concise, illustrated history of the legendary McDonnell Douglas F-4C and RF-4C Phantom II. Covered are its technical developments, markings, and use by Spanish forces.Book InformationISBN 9780764343711Author Gonzalo AvilaFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467106436Author Lt Col George a Larson Usaf (Ret )Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467104807Author Mark LardasFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977404985Author Kathleen ReedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft. These were based on land. But now there is talk of weapons in space-instant-kill beams like lasers. President Reagan has offered a vision of new inventions that could stop...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in response to terrorist attacks that were carried out against the United States on September 11, 2001. Its agencies were tasked with analyzing threats and intelligence, guarding borders and...

Since the Wright brothers made their famed flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, aviation has emerged as the indispensable arm of American military power. In this detailed and well-illustrated history, Charles J. Gross traces its development from the...

American volunteers Don Gentile and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based at Debden near Cambridge. At the end of their missions with the 4th the two of them had accounted for over 58 enemy...

Compared to armies and navies, which have existed as professional fighting services for centuries, the technology that makes air forces possible is much newer. As a result, these services have had to quickly develop methods of preparing aviators to...

A compilation of 4-view colour profiles, 1/72 scale plans and photographic details of the single variant of the most famous and instantly recognised American warplane of World War II.Book InformationISBN 9788366549807Author Dariusz KarnasFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989165Author Donald S. LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few Seventy-five years on the unforgettable words of Winston Churchill ring as powerfully as they did in August 1940 when the young men of the RAF stood as the last line of defence...

Used in combat in WWII, the Ar 234 was a major development in aircraft design.Book InformationISBN 9780887402036Author Franz KobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 363g

On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon...

This new book is the third of a multi-volume series covering the complete history of Germany's legendary World War II jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262. Featured here are the Me 262 "A" series types from the A-1a jabo through the A-5 and...

In 1936 the D-513 fighter designed by Emil Dewoitine made its first flight. It was supposed to be the successor of the slightly outdated D-500 and D-510 models, and built according to modern trends: with a closed cabin and a retractable undercarriage...

Travis Air Force Base, situated in Fairfield, California, is the 'Gateway to the Pacific', handling more cargo and passengers than any other American military air terminal, and is the transportation hub for the West Coast. Flying the KC-10 Extender, C-17...

Merton Naydler joined the RAF at the age of nineteen and served for the next six years until May 1946. He flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during a tour of duty that took him to North Africa, Burma and Malaya. This well written and extremely entertaining...

Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camoes (c. 1524- 1580) remains perhaps the least known outside his native Portugal, and his influence on literature in English has not been fully recognized. In this major work of comparative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639077Author Aviation HistorianPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588345059Author Ed RasimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

For most, and particularly the injured and the wounded, being shot down over Occupied Europe during the Second World War meant that capture was immediate, that imprisonment was almost inevitable. For some, evasion was possible, but rarely for long. For a...

This book explores the reconnaissance aircraft used by the British armed forces in the 1970s and '80s, namely the Avro Shackleton, Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, Fairey Gannet and English Electric Canberra. The maritime patrol and airborne early warning (AEW)...

McCook Field was a small air base in Dayton, Ohio, that was active only from 1917 to 1927. McCook was exceptional because it was designated by the US Signal Corps / Army Air Corps as an aeronautical research facility. As the center of prototype testing...

This is the history of Air Intercept (AI) radar and its use in night-fighters in defence of the UK and in the protection of RAF bomber forces. It is set against the political, military, economic and technological background of world events. Beginning in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198477689Author Ognjan PetrovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Canfora Grafisk FormPublisher Canfora Grafisk Form

Nikolai Vasil'evich Sutiagin, the top-scoring Soviet air ace of the Korean War, flew his MiG-15 in lethal dogfights against American Sabres and Australian Meteors throughout the conflict. He is credited with at 22 'kills'. Yet the full story of his...

Aleksander Siewierski, originally from Georgia, was in the United States in 1917 and was there when the revolution in Russia broke out. As Alexander Seversky, he founded the Seversky Aero Corporation. Alexander Kartvelli (also a Georgian) became his main...

Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation - a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above the South China Sea during the outset of the Vietnam War...

Volume II on the Me 262 with emphasis on the units that flew it.Book InformationISBN 9780887404108Author Manfred GriehlFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 0g

This book examines the security dynamics of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific, concentrating upon an analysis and evaluation of the air power capabilities of the various powers active in the two regions.The volume is designed to help improve...

Scale plans for aero modellers in 1/72 scale of the Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter aircraft, featuring twelve A3 size scale plans of the different versions.Book InformationISBN 9788366549173Author Dariusz KarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint...

The year was 1941, and the flames of world war were threatening America's shores. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for an "Arsenal of Democracy" and demanded fabrication of 50,000 warplanes per year. But first, sprawling new airplane factories were...