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Boeing 707 Group: A History by Graham M. Simons 9781473861343
RRP: £29.99£21.94The Boeing 707 family - that includes the forerunner Model 367-80, the KC-135 series of military transports and the slightly smaller Model 720 - was the pioneer of the sweptback wing, incorporating podded engines borrowed from the B-47 military bomber... -
Filton and the Flying Machine: Images of England by Malcolm M. Hall 9780752401713
RRP: £12.99£9.37From trams and trains and buses to ... Concorde. This is a story in photographs of the erstwhile Victorian farming villages of Filton and Patchway in Gloucestershire, through their metamorphosis into the urban communities of the supersonic era. It... -
Apache by Ed Macy
RRP: £12.99£8.48Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world's deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. After a brutal accident forced him out of... -
International Space Station Owners' Workshop Manual: 1998-2011 (all stages) by David Baker
RRP: £30.00£21.35The International Space Station (ISS) is a permanently manned earth-orbiting complex where astronauts carry out research into a wide range of scientific activities. It comprises modules built in the USA, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada. Author David... -
Blohm & Voss Bv 155 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658320Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1941-1945 by Martin Robson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was... -
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of World War II by Paul E. Eden 9781782744733
RRP: £35.00£25.01The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII is an exhaustive survey of the aircraft flown by all the combatants in Europe and the Pacific, including such famous aircraft as the P-51 Mustang, Supermarine Spitfire, Yakovlev Yak-3, Messerschmitt Me 109 and Vought... -
Boeing in Photographs: A Century of Flight by Martin W. Bowman
RRP: £25.00£18.15Founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing, a wealthy timber merchant, the mighty Boeing Company's long history spans decades of rich achievement and technological development. Beginning with the manufacture of seaplanes, fighters and, from the 1930s onwards,... -
How to Build an Aircraft Carrier: The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain's Biggest Warship to Life by Chris Terrill
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever aircraft carrier and SUBJECT OF THE MAJOR NEW BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES THE WARSHIP'Fascinating, often funny and sometimes moving . . . Terrill takes us deep into the... -
Japanese Aircraft of World War II: 1937-1945 by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99£12.10Illustrated with detailed artworks of Japanese aircraft and their markings, Japanese Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Japanese military from the Second Sino-Japanese War to the surrender in the Pacific in... -
The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters by Christine Negroni
RRP: £12.99£9.09What happened to MH370? How did Amelia Earhart disappear? When have quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive? And what, if any, are the lessons we have learned from these accidents? Aviation journalist and air safety... -
When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship by John J. Geoghegan
RRP: £25.00£18.15Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to... -
The Wellington Bomber Story by Martin W. Bowman 9780752461939
RRP: £8.99£7.40The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber, universally known as the 'Wimpy'. The only bomber in construction throughout the Second World War, the Wellington played a pivotal role in training and combat from its conception... -
Cold War Boys: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED TALES OF DERRING-DO FROM LIGHTNING, PHANTOM AND HUNTER PILOTS by Richard Pike
RRP: £25.00£17.62When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over 40 years until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. In addition to nuclear and... -
Avro Lancaster (Icon) by Jarrod Cotter
RRP: £12.99£9.09During the Second World War, RAF Lancaster bombers took the conflict into the very heart of Hitler's Third Reich, and flew some of the most daring operations of the war. Surprisingly, of the 7,377 Lancasters built only two survive today, one in Britain... -
The Vickers Viscount: The World's First Turboprop Airliner by Nick Stroud
RRP: £16.99£12.28By some margin the most successful British medium-range airliner ever produced, the world-beating Viscount was a sublime combination of Vickers' state-of-the-art postwar design and Rolls-Royce's cutting-edge power-plant technology, both companies being... -
Bristol Brabazon by Graham Simons 9780752467337
RRP: £14.99£11.28The Brabazon - the name evokes the immediate post-war optimism of civil aviation. The giant airliner was built by Bristol Aircraft in 1949 to cross the Atlantic and serve the empire. However, the plane proved to be a commercial failure when airlines felt... -
Tupolev Tu - 144: The Soviet Supersonic Airliner by Yefim Gordon 9780764348945
RRP: £54.99£36.21Developed in the 1960s/1970s, the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union's only practical venture into supersonic commercial aviation. Though its career was all too brief, it was a major technological achievement for the Soviet aircraft industry. The book provides... -
Flight from the Croft by Bill Innes 9781849953979
RRP: £18.99£15.65As a barefoot lad in the Outer Hebrides, Bill Innes dreamed the impossible dream of becoming a pilot and this book tells how that dream came to pass. The author's career of over forty years spanned a period of incredible advances in the air - now... -
The Concorde Story: Seventh Edition by Christopher Orlebar
RRP: £25.00£18.62This fully revised edition of The Concorde Story, is a complete history of Concorde, seen through the eyes of former Concorde pilot Christopher Orlebar. This new edition includes the after-story of the aircraft, including a list of where surviving... -
Merlin: The Power Behind the Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster: The Story of the Engine That Won the Battle of Britain and WWII by Graham Hoyland
RRP: £9.99£6.64The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of... -
England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines by David Edgerton
RRP: £15.99£11.61The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War MachineThe history of England and the aeroplane is one tangled with myths - of 'the Few'... -
Fallschirmjager: German Paratroopers - 1942-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Francois Cochet
RRP: £14.99£10.95As elite troops, the German Fallschirmjager (paratroopers) were regularly engaged in front line combat during the Second World War. Their famed actions such as the fighting in Scandinavia, the taking of the Belgian fortress Eden-Emal in May 1940, and the... -
Airfields and Landing Grounds of Wales: West by Ivor Jones 9780752444185
RRP: £16.99£12.64Includes airfields and landing grounds such as RAF Fairwood Common, RAF Pembrey, Castle Martin, Ilford Haven fuel depot, RAF Dale, Picton Castle Camp cubstrip, RAF Havefordwest, RAF St David's and RAF Aberporth. This book covers the west and combines the... -
Royal Navy torpedo-bombers vs Axis warships: 1939-45 by Matthew Willis
RRP: £14.99£10.95Drawing on rare, historical photography and specially commissioned artwork, Matthew Willis explores the heroic feats of the few Royal Navy's obsolescent biplanes that stood between the state-of-the-art Axis warships and their objectives. Focusing on... -
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier
RRP: £10.99£7.00This is the gripping story of the Battle of Britain; of some of the most fateful weeks in history.Drawing on eyewitness accounts from both the RAF and the Luftwaffe, this is a compelling story of history in the making through an intensely fought battle,... -
Concorde by Christopher Orlebar
RRP: £7.99£5.79The story of one of greatest technological achievements of the 20th century told from a pilot's-eye view, which will appeal to all enthusiasts of modern aviation. From her first commercial flight in 1976, and throughout 27 years of service, Concorde... -
Howard's Whirlybirds: Howard Hughes's Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits by Donald J. Porter 9781781550892
RRP: £20.00£14.71Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Companies responsible for major technological leaps often become household names... -
Aces Falling: War Above The Trenches, 1918 by Peter Hart
RRP: £10.99£7.40How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontAt the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their... -
Hunters over Arabia: Hawker Hunter Operations in the Middle East by Ray Deacon
RRP: £30.00£21.95Based on official records held at the National Archives and other published sources, 'Hunters over Arabia' presents an in-depth account of the operations performed by the Hawker Hunter squadrons policing the desert wastelands and high mountain ranges of... -
A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story by Mary Ellis
RRP: £14.99£10.95We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft and that person was Mary Wilkins. ... -
RAF Airfields of World War 2 by Jonathan Falconer 9781857803495
RRP: £35.00£25.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857803495Author Jonathan FalconerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Supermarine Spitfire (Icon): 1936 onwards (all marks) by Blackah Price 9781785215742
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets and gift markets. The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the... -
Supermarine Southampton: The Flying Boat that Made R.J. Mitchell by Jo Hillman 9781526784940
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Spacecraft: 100 Iconic Rockets, Shuttles, and Satellites That Put Us in Space by Michael H. Gorn
RRP: £25.99£17.98Spacecraft takes a long look at humankind's attempts and advances in leaving Earth through incredible illustrations and authoritatively written profiles on Sputnik, the International Space Station, and beyond. In 1957, the world looked on with both... -
Scotland's Wings: Triumph and tragedy in the skies by Robert Jeffrey
RRP: £14.99£10.95Scotland has a worldwide reputation for launching some of the greatest ships ever built, but far less is known about our pioneering work on aviation. Yet in the great industrial cities and remote islands across the country, men and women risked their... -
Brian Trubshaw: Test Pilot by Brian Trubshaw
RRP: £12.99£9.37Here is the full and fascinating story of Brian Trubshaw's life as an experimental test pilot. Written from his own unique viewpoint on the flight deck, it covers a period of tremendous upheaval in the British aircraft industry.About the AuthorBRIAN... -
The Complete Dambusters: The 133 Men Who Flew on the Dams Raid by Charles Foster
RRP: £20.00£15.11On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAF's 617 Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart of Germany. Flying at a height of 60ft, they dropped a series of bombs which bounced across the water and destroyed two of... -
Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide by Chris Bishop
RRP: £19.99£13.74Illustrated with detailed artworks of World War II-era German aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: Identification Guide is the definitive study of the equipment and organisation of the... -
Brooklands: Cradle of British Motor Racing and Aviation by Nicholas H Lancaster 9780747807070
RRP: £8.99£6.87Before World War II, Brooklands was the most famous motor racing venue in the world, attracting large and glamorous crowds to its banked circuit to watch races being won and records being broken. Also an important centre for aviation, Brooklands saw the...