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  • Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A–G

    BMW-engined Series

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    Series series FlightCraft
    "… a book well worth picking up if you are a fan of the type. It reads well and has a lot of photos of the real deal." -ModelingMadness.Com The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was arguably the Luftwaffe's most outstanding piston-engine fighter of the Second World War, virtually dominating the skies over Europe for more than a year after its initial introduction into service in the summer of 1941. Continual ... Read more

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  • Avro Shackleton

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    Initially projected as a maritime reconnaissance version of the Lincoln bomber, itself a development of the famous wartime Lancaster which saw post-war service in a General/Maritime Reconnaissance role, (see Flight Craft No 4), the Avro Shackleton, (named after the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton) was a completely new design, powered by four Rolls Royce Griffon 57 engines driving six blade ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hawker Hurricane and Sea Hurricane

    by Martin Derry, Tony O'Toole, Neil Robinson ...
    Series series FlightCraft
    This fully illustrated volume examines the legendary RAF fighter with full details on its WWII service and design modifications.The Hawker Hurricane was aeronautical engineer Sidney Camm's masterpiece. The fighter entered Royal Air Force service in 1937 and quickly became one of the most important aircraft in Britain's military arsenal—especially in the first three years of the Second World War. ... Read more

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  • Avro Lancaster in Military Service, 1945–1965

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    The Avro Lancaster, such a stalwart of the skies during the Second World War, also enjoyed an interesting and surprisingly colourful post-war career. It is this era that the authors have chosen to focus on by profiling the type across its many variants.Split into three primary sections, this book offers a concise yet informative history of the Lancaster's post-war operational career (from 1945 ... Read more

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  • British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft

    The Golden Years 1945–1975

    by Malcolm V. Lowe, Neil Robinson, Martin Derry ...
    "An attractive book . . . chock full with photos and drawings of all the planes that have been drawn and built in these years in the UK." — AviationBookReviews.comIt could be argued that the heyday of British military aircraft flight testing began in the 1940s, and continued throughout the three decades that followed, during the so-called Cold War period. As such, the authors have purposely chosen ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • RAF Fighters Before the Storm

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    Series series FlightCraft
    "This is a truly excellent product; well written and excellently illustrated, it needs to find its way on to the shelves of any RAF 'silver wings' modeler." – IPMS/USA When the First World War ended the then recently established Royal Air Force was awash with aircraft of all descriptions. More surprising, perhaps, was the fact that despite an ongoing cull of obsolescing types, on the last day of ... Read more

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  • Prelude to War

    The RAF, 1934–1939

    by Martin Derry ...
    Series series Images of War
    Through the use of contemporary photographs and informative captions, Prelude To War: The RAF 1936-1939 chronicles many of the RAF's aircraft that continued to serve in the years immediately preceding the start of hostilities in 1939, a period of rapid technological change and mechanical innovation at a time when many European nations held their collective breath as, yet again, they witnessed the ... Read more

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  • Gloster Meteor in British Service

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    Series series FlightCraft
    The Gloster F.9/40 was Britains first jet fighter and as the Meteor F.I became the first jet-powered aircraft of any description to enter service with the Allies in World War II. Several early Meteors were dispatched to Europe in the hope that 1945 might witness the first ever jet-on-jet combats between it and the much-vaunted German jets a contest which, in the event, was never to occur.Postwar, ... Read more

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  • Junkers Ju87 Stuka

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    Series series FlightCraft
    The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka (a contraction of the German word Sturzkampfflugzeug, ie dive bomber) was arguably the Luftwaffes most recognizable airplane, with its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage.Designed by Hermann Pohlmann as a dedicated dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft, the prototype first flew in 1935, and made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion ... Read more

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  • Hawker Hunter in British Service

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    Series series FlightCraft
    "For any enthusiast and/or modeler of the Hawker Hunter this book will be like catnip . . . outstanding images of this classic post war aircraft." — Vintage AirfixInitially introduced in 1954 as a swept-wing, transonic, single-seat day interceptor, the Hawker Hunter rapidly succeeded the first-generation jet fighters in RAF service such as the Gloster Meteor and the de Havilland Venom. Powered by ... Read more

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  • English Electric Lightning

    by Martin Derry, Neil Robinson ...
    Series Book 11 - FlightCraft
    Developed to intercept increasingly capable Soviet bombers such as the Tupolev Tu-16, Tu-22 and Tu-95, the English Electric/BAC Lightning had a phenomenal rate of climb, a high ceiling, and a top speed of over 1,300mph at 36,000ft, and is a favourite of both aviation enthusiasts and aircraft modellers alike.This homage to the only all-British Mach 2 interceptor fighter, follows previous Flight ... Read more

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  • The Avro Vulcan

    A History

    by Peter G. Dancey ...
    The delta-wing design of the subsonic bomber Avro Vulcan was years ahead of its time in terms of design when the Ministry accepted the proposal in 1947. Based on top secret Luftwaffe material after the end of the Second World War, the first prototype flew on 18 May 1951 and it went on to serve in the RAF from 1952 to 1984. During this time it carried Britain s first nuclear weapon, the gravity ... Read more

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