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Published 2023, 192 pages, 150 color images, appendix, index, softcover, 10" x 10"
This book provides many fascinating insights into a part of the aviation industry which is not often in the spotlight, the world of international heavy lift aviation. It also tells the story of challenging journey the airline company has made...…..
Water Bombers softcover
Published August 2023, 160 pages, 230+ all colour photographs, hardcover, 9 3/4 inches x 7 inches
By 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 at
Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain's answer to the Boeing 707 and the Dougl
Drawn from the files of English, American, New Zealand, Australian and Canadian sources, as well as from veterans, this is the story of Lockheed's Lucky Star-the marvelous Ventura! Fashioned from the Lockheed Model 18 airliner, the Ventura went on to figh
Other books have charted the VC10 in airline life, but this book blends that story with a well-researched tale of corporate and political power play. It asks; just what lay behind the sales failure of the VC1O?
Politics played an important part of cours
Developed 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 i
Together We Fly: Voices From the DC-3 is the story of an aircraft like none other—a true legend, the icon of an industry and one of the most recognized aircraft in history. Today, over 75 years after her first flight, the DC-3 graces the skies of the 21st
This fascinating collection of airline tickets spans the history of air travel. From flagship megabrands like Pan Am and BOAC to some of the least known airlines flying to the most obscure corners of the world.
This book shows the development of the aircraft with a detailed look at the history of Douglas, the path through the DC-10 to the MD-11, it’s troubled entry into service, and its second wind as a reliable cargo hauler.
DC-3 pilots share their tales of a remarkable era of aviation and the early airlines, while flying for Frontier from 1946–1986.
This superbly illustrated book celebrates the long and rich history of Bahrain's involvement in military and civil aviation............
Soviet-Era Airliners: The Final Three Decades: Historic Commercial Aircraft Series: Volume 1 softcover
Published June 2022, 128 pages, (220+ all colour photographs), softcover, 9 3/4 inches x 6 3.4 inches
Published October 2006, 184 pages,30 black & white photographs, map, glossary, index, softcover, 6"x 9" inches
Published May 2023, 144 pages, 120 colour and black & white photographs, hardcover, 9" x 9"
Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Yet for that to be the case an enormous amount of testing is undertaken. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots, who fly the aircraft, but it is the men behin
Republic Airlines and its twelve predecessors formed one of the finest national airlines that ever spanned the nation............
A nostalgic, photographic look at some of the great classic propeller driven aircraft as they operate around the world. Covers 75 years of the Douglas DC 3 and its turboprop conversions through de Havilland Canada's ageless pair of Beaver and Twin Otter
In late 1941, President Roosevelt agonized over the rapid advances of the Japanese forces in Asia, they seemed unstoppable. He foresaw their intentions of taking India and linking up with the two other Axis Powers, Germany and Italy, in an attempt to conq
Proven tactics and PIC strategies for the professional aviator flying turbine aircraft—and those aspiring to do so.
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail brings us an extraordinarily intimate, engaging and all-encompassing chronicle of Canadian flight north of the 60th parallel. Metcalfe-Chenail proves herself a remarkable historian and writer,...........
For the first time, Astral Horizon Press have brought together the best of his work into an anthology Planely Schmitz.
For a world recovering from the Great Depression, the Pan American Airways Clipper symbolized luxury, adventure and a brighter future. Illustrated with rare period photographs, vintage travel posters, magazine ads and colorful company brochures, Pan Ameri