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9781802823172

B-25 Mitchell

Author: Cleaver, Tom Code: 62626 Price: AU $39.95 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING LTD Published date: 15/03/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

If the North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell had only participated in the Doolittle Raid, it would have cemented its place in history - but it did so much more. Whether flying dangerous low-level strafing missions across the south Pacific from New Guinea to the shores of the Japanese Home Islands or battling nature and deadly German flak over ......

9781802823677

BAC One-Eleven

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62593 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 15/03/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

On 20 August 1963, the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) One-Eleven flew for the first time. There was a lot riding on this new aircraft. For BAC, which was a result of the consolidation of the nations aircraft industry that turned 27 companies into just three major airframe builders, the new jet promised salvation. The One-Eleven was the ......

9781802823783

De Havilland Comet

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62596 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 15/03/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

In the latter half of World War Two, the War Cabinet sanctioned the formation of a committee to consider a post-war world of air transport. The committee, headed by John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, the first man in Britain to hold a private pilots licence, had the foresight to embrace an emerging method of propulsion: gas-turbine or jet ......

9781911658566

F-16 Fighting Falcon

American All-Purpose Combat Machine Author: Simmonds, Bertie Code: 60492 Price: AU $34.95 Format: Hardback / 144 pages Publisher: MORTONS MEDIA GROUP Published date: 01/03/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

Sleek, futuristic and deadly - the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon was born from the crucible of the air war over Vietnam and the need for cheaper, simpler, and more maneuverable fighter aircraft with which to combat the many thousands of Soviet-bloc supplied aircraft sold around the world.

Back in the early 1970s the F-16 ......

9781922800046

Road Trips Australia

Backroads and Byways Author: Fuchs, Don Code: 62660 Price: AU $44.99 Format: Paperback / 280 pages Publisher: WOODSLANE PRESS Published date: 01/03/2023 Availability: In Stock, usually dispatched same day

Australia is the ideal country for adventurous road trips. All you need is a sturdy vehicle, the right gear and a dose of common sense. Sometimes the unknown and fascinating is just around the corner. There is no better way to shake off the hectic lifestyle of everyday life in suburbia than on an adventurous trip down the roads less travelled

9781636242057

Nightstalkers

The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War 11 Author: Lawless, Richard, Phillip Code: 62621 Price: AU $99.00 Format: Hardback / 432 pages Publisher: CASEMATE BOOKS Published date: 27/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

The untold story of the 868th Bomb Squadron, the Nightstalkers, who paired cutting-edge technology with daring - launching single-aircraft night-time missions stalking the Japanese in the Pacific. In August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the "Wright Project," departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South ......

9781802823134

B-17G Flying Fortress

1955-2015 Author: Lowe, Malcolm Code: 62556 Price: AU $39.95 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 25/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

The B-17 Flying Fortress was conceived by the well-known US aviation designer and manufacturer Boeing during the 1930s, principally as a defensive weapon. Owing to the high levels of publicity it received during its service, it duly became a symbol of the Allied war effort. Indeed, the B-17 became one of the most important US aircraft of the ......

9781802823745

Lockheed Constellation

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62594 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 25/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

While many airliners from the Second World War have either disappeared completely or only survived as remnants in a museum, approximately 55 Constellations out of the 856 built still survive today, and two of them, both C-121s, are airworthy. A real head turner, the Connie raised the bar in both performance, economy and passenger comfort and ......

9781802823806

Avro Military 1910-63

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62557 Price: AU $39.95 Format: Paperback / 128 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 25/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

Founded in 1910 by Alliott Verdon Roe, A.V. Roe and Company Limited built its first military aircraft two years later. By 1914, the company was literally flying when it designed the first of many iconic aircraft in the shape of the Avro 504, which sold in colossal numbers and was the key factor in keeping the company in the aviation industry ......

9781472852946

Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin

The Glider Pilots of World War II Author: McGaugh, Scott Code: 62618 Price: AU $49.95 Format: Hardback / 288 pages Publisher: OSPREY Published date: 20/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 3-7 business days

The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by New York Times bestselling author Scott McGaugh. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the ......

9780764364846

Douglas DC-9

A Legends of Flight Illustrated History Author: Borgman, Wolfgang Code: 61715 Price: AU $64.95 Format: Hardback / 144 pages Publisher: SCHIFFER PUBLISHING Published date: 19/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

With their unmistakable silhouette, the Douglas DC-9 family of twin-engine passenger jets was a familiar sight on many of the worlds airfields well into the 1990s. Douglas initiated development of the DC-9 at the beginning of the 1960s and, in doing so, developed an entirely new market-the short-range jet airliner. The DC-9 became an instant ......

9781802823752

Concorde

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62595 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 18/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

The desire for airliners that could fly faster and higher than all that had gone before them was ingrained into the commercial aviation world from the end of World War Two. As early as 1954, with the Comet program already floundering, talks began in Britain regarding the feasibility of a Supersonic Transport (SST), which resulted, in October ......

9781802822397

RAF Helicopters of the 70s and 80s

Author: Goss, Chris Code: 62570 Price: AU $49.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING LTD Published date: 17/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

During the 1970s and 80s, the RAFs helicopters went from strength to strength, playing a significant role in the RAFs endeavours both at home and abroad. The Westland Whirlwind was used in the search and rescue (SAR) role before being replaced by the Westland Sea King. Highly visible in their bright yellow liveries, both these aircraft were ......

9781802823035

American Aviation

The First Half Century Author: Willis and Molloy Code: 62588 Price: AU $59.95 Format: Hardback / 192 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 17/02/2023 Availability: In Stock, usually dispatched same day

The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to take to the air had given way to jet-powered aircraft, a rate of technological advance unparalleled in any other field. With carefully colorized images, this book chronicles ......

9781802823707

Douglas DC-3

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62553 Price: AU $39.95 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 17/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

It is fair to say that the DC-3 was the very first true airliner, and it paved the way for the hundreds of increasingly advanced commercial aircraft that have emerged over the eighty years since Douglas design was developed. The story of the C-47 is of course well known, but the history of the civil DC-3 (which directly led to the creation of ......

9781399077361

Flying the Buccaneer

Britain's Cold War Warrior Author: Caygill, Peter Code: 62615 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 160 pages Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD Published date: 12/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

Originally conceived as a carrier-born maritime attack aircraft, the Blackburn design included many original features such as Boundary Layer Control, a system which blew hot air over the flying surfaces to increase lift when landing. The rotating bomb bay was also new and enabled easier maintenance, accessibility and reduced drag. The first ......

9781803991177

Boeing in Photographs

A Century of Flight Author: Bowman, Martin W. Code: 62599 Price: AU $56.50 Format: Paperback / 224 pages Publisher: HISTORY PRESS Published date: 11/02/2023 Availability: In Stock, usually dispatched same day

Founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing, a wealthy timber merchant, the mighty Boeing Companys 100-year history spans decades of rich achievement and technological development. Beginning with the manufacture of seaplanes, fighters and, from the 1930s onwards, huge bombers, Boeing pioneered innovative transports gigantic airliners, missiles, ......

9781472852502

H6K "Mavis"/H8K "Emily" vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer

Pacific Theater 1943-45 Author: Young, Edward Code: 62563 Price: AU $39.95 Format: Paperback / 80 pages Publisher: OSPREY Published date: 06/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 3-7 business days

An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navys long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War. Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics deployed by both US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force and analyzing the ......

9781472854568

F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units in Combat

Author: Davies, Peter E. Code: 62619 Price: AU $34.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: OSPREY Published date: 06/02/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 3-7 business days

With first-hand insight into the into the key role of the US Air Forces fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this book is an unmissable account of some of the most dangerous and demanding missions in the two ......

9781802821956

French Naval Aviation

Author: Grolleau, Henri-Pierre Code: 62559 Price: AU $49.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 30/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

Over the last two decades, the Aeronautique Navale, French Naval Aviation, has grown into a powerful and battle-hardened force equipped with a large inventory of Rafale Marine naval strike fighters, E-2C Hawkeye early-warning aircraft, Falcon 50, Gardian and Atlantique 2 maritime surveillance/maritime patrol aircraft, Dauphin, Panther, Alouette ......

9781802822083

Airfix Model World Basic Guide to Modelling

Author: Fone, Stu Code: 61996 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING LTD Published date: 30/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. No longer available

Whether you are just entering the hobby or re-acquainting yourself with it, this book provides simple step-by-step advice on how to get started on a build regardless of whether it is a ship, tank, aircraft or spaceship along with guidance on tools and equipment. The wealth of handy tips on basic modelling techniques includes eliminating seams, ......

9781802822410

Lloyd Aereo Boliviano

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62591 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 30/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

Even in aviation circles, the name Lloyd Aereo Boliviano is not a name that quickly comes to mind, but its story is one which deserves to be told. Its aircraft were not seen as regularly as those of other South American airlines, perhaps because its routes were mainly domestic, with an international network only to some of the larger South ......

9781802822564

Airliners of the 2000s

Author: Manning, Gerry Code: 61997 Price: AU $56.95 Format: Paperback / 160 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING LTD Published date: 30/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

All decades of aviation have important developments and changes. In the 2000s, the European Airbus consortium finally overtook Boeing as the major producer of airliners, with a full range from the smallest, the A318, to the largest of all passenger aircraft, the A380. It saw the early jets either disappear or get converted to haul freight. The ......

9781802822632

Lockheed SR-71

Author: Archer, Bob Code: 62120 Price: AU $49.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING LTD Published date: 30/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

One of two Lockheed reconnaissance "black" jets that emerged during the 1950s and 1960s, the SR-71 was operated by the USAF and NASA. Produced in tremendous secrecy, and initially flown from areas away from public gaze, the SR-71 is renowned for its high speed and distinctive design. The Lockheed Blackbird family the A-12, YF-12, and SR-71 were ......

9781802823141

Junkers Ju 88

Author: Lowe, Malcolm Code: 62122 Price: AU $49.99 Format: Paperback / 128 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING LTD Published date: 30/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

This fully illustrated book looks at the German Luftwaffes famous bomber, the Ju 88, in all its variants. Chapters on bombers, heavy fighters, night fighters and reconnaissance sub-types are included, along with a look at foreign operators. The Junkers Ju 88 was one of the most important tactical bombers of the World War Two era. Its beginnings ......

9781802823714

Supermarine 1913-63

Author: Key Publishing Code: 62590 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 128 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 30/01/2023 Availability: In Stock, usually dispatched same day

Great Britain was once filled with a plethora of aircraft manufacturers. The seeds of many of them were sown as the demand for aircraft gained pace following the outbreak of World War One. However, not all survived after the war, and while Supermarine managed to keep going by the skin of its teeth, it certainly did not settle into a profitable ......

9781684513635

The Bridgebusters

The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Wing Author: Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey Code: 62623 Price: AU $34.95 Format: Paperback / 288 pages Publisher: REGNERY PUBLISHING INC Published date: 29/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

Will resonate with readers of the The Forgotten 500 and Code Talker. The exploits, trials, disappointments, and victories of members of the American 57th Bomb Wing in WW II, including one young bombardier who would go on to write legendary WW II novel, Catch-22.

"He had decided to ......

9781802822489

Aircraft Engine Test Beds

British Jet Fighters and Bombers Author: Buttler, Tony Code: 62592 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 29/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a number of British jet fighter and bomber aircraft were fitted with new, different or additional engines, both jet and rocket, to enable them to serve as test beds for those specific powerplants. These aircraft types included fighters such as the de Havilland Vampire, Gloster Meteor and Javelin, and ......

9781802823011

P-51 Mustang Warbirds

Author: Veronica, Dunne and Leininger Code: 62569 Price: AU $56.99 Format: Paperback / 128 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING LTD Published date: 29/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

This fascinating story begins with post-World War Two sales of surplus Mustangs to various foreign governments and a few civilian customers. More than a decade later, in 1957 and 1958, the US Air Force auctioned off its remaining inventory of P-51s. These Mustangs became high-speed executive transports in the days before the introduction of the ......

9781802824322

Douglas DC-8

Author: Mak, Ron Code: 62598 Price: AU $39.99 Format: Paperback / 96 pages Publisher: KEY PUBLISHING Published date: 29/01/2023 Availability: In Stock, usually dispatched same day

The Douglas DC-8, which began life in the 1950s as the Douglas Model 1881, became available to airliners about a year after the first Boeing 707s. However, from the outset, Douglas regarded this time lag as an advantage. In particular, it determined that safety and performance standards should be maintained without loss of flying qualities and, ......

9780750995160

Female Few

Spitfire Heroines Author: Hyams, Jacky Code: 60586 Price: AU $35.00 Format: Paperback Publisher: HISTORY PRESS Published date: 28/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days
Spitfire Heroines. Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous civilian women risked their lives as aerial courier pilots, flying Lancaster bombers, Spitfires and many other powerful war machines in thousands of perilous missions. In 'The Female Few', five of these astonishingly brave women tell their ......
9781526781208

Dornier Do 17 in the Battle of Britain

The 'Flying Pencil' in the Spitfire Summer Author: Goss, Chris Code: 60489 Price: AU $75.00 Format: Hardback / 232 pages Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD Published date: 15/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days
For the first three years of the Second World War, the Dornier Do 17 was the Luftwaffe's principal light bomber and this book explores its role in the Battle of Britain.
9781612519104

Tomcats and Eagles

The Development of the F-14 and F-15 in the Cold War Author: Tovy, Tal Code: 62064 Price: AU $164.00 Format: Hardback / 312 pages Publisher: NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS Published date: 15/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

During the first half of the 1970s, two new fighter aircraft entered operational service in the United States: The Navys Grumman F-14 Tomcat and the Air Forces McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. These two aircraft were part of the backbone of the tactical air power of the United States; their introduction was accompanied by comprehensive reforms in ......

9781472850515

Me 262

Northwest Europe 1944-45 Author: Forsyth, Robert Code: 62571 Price: AU $94.00 Format: Paperback / 80 pages Publisher: OSPREY Published date: 11/01/2023 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 3-7 business days

Using rare first-hand accounts from Me 262 pilots, Robert Forsyth examines what it was like to fly the worlds most advanced interceptor in the deadly skies over Germany in 1944-45. Right from its operational debut in the summer of 1944, the Me 262 outclassed anything the Allies had in terms of speed and firepower ratio, ......

9781682477625

U.S. Aircraft Carriers

An Illustrated Design History Author: Friedman, Norman Code: 61879 Price: AU $420.00 Format: Hardback / 512 pages Publisher: NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS Published date: 28/12/2022 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achievement, the Naval Institute Press is proud to make these books available once more. Digitally remastered for enhanced photo resolution and ......

9780764363559

Turbulent Journey

The Jumo Engine, Operation Paperclip and the American Dream Author: Decher, Reiner Code: 61695 Price: AU $56.99 Format: Hardback / 192 pages Publisher: SCHIFFER PUBLISHING Published date: 26/12/2022 Availability: In stock at supplier. Usually dispatched 7-15 business days

This untold story of early jet development, surviving the collapse of the Reich, and starting over in America is recounted by Reiner Decher, whos father Siegfried was an engineer on the team that designed the engine for the Me 262. Germany built the first operational jet aircraft during World War II, the Messerschmitt Me 262. Siegfried Decher ......

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