It was to be created for one man and one airline but became one of the best and most elegant aircraft ever to grace the skies. Howard Hughes was one of the wealthiest people in the world. He bought control in TWA, the huge American airline, and wanted to make it special.
Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about them, past and present.
Developed by English Electric during the late 1940s – essentially as a successor to the wartime de Havilland Mosquito twin-engine, unarmed, fast bomber concept – the Canberra can lay claim to being the first British jet-powered medium bomber when it was introduced in to RAF service in May 1951.
Much has been written about the Unites States air forces during the Second World War, but little has been written about the early days of American military aviation either before or during the First...
The Crash of RAF Chinook Helicopter ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre
by Steuart Campbell
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526791993
Pub Date: 2024-08-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Aviation
272 Pages
It's an in-depth examination of the controversial 1994 Chinook crash in Mull of Kintyre, probing various theories and evidence to unravel its enduring mystery.The 1994 crash of Chinook with top Northern...
The RAF and Allied Air Forces in Malaya 1948 - 1960
by Air Ministry Personnel
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781526726124
Pub Date: 2024-07-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Air World
304 Pages
During World War II, the Malayan Communist Party was met with little support and started an insurgence that ended in Emergency Powers to restore law and order via local auxiliary and national air forces.As...
by Frances Louise Wilkinson and Squadron Leader Tony Freeman RAuxaF (Retd)
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781399062183
Pub Date: 2023-09-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Air World
264 Pages
Owing its origins to Lord Trenchard’s desire to establish an elite corps of civilians who would serve their country in flying squadrons during their spare time, the Auxiliary Air Force (AAF) was first...
Many books have been written about military parachuting, in particular about famous parachute operations like Crete and Arnhem in the Second World War and notable parachute units like the British Parachute Regiment and the US 101st Airborne Division, but no previous book has covered the entire history of the use of the parachute in warfare.
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