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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
Vickers Valiant: Warpaint #63 softcover
The Vickers Valiant is sometimes considered the forgotten member of the three V-Bombers, with the most popular and long-lived being the Avro Vulcan. The Valiant performed superbly during an excellent service career
Published 2013, Reprint, 36 pages, black & white and colour photographs, 40 colour profiles, colour multi views, 1:72 scale line drawing plans, production and unit lists, model kit decal and accessory list, softcover, A4 Format, 21 cm (8 1/4”) x 29.7 cm (
Vertical Take-Off Fighter Aircraft is an illustrated history of concepts, experimental, and operational military VTO & VTOL aircraft. The book starts with wartime German projects such as the Focke Wulf Treibflugel, Heinkel Wespe, and VTO rocket fighters.
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
Published 1998, 472 pages, over 400 b/w and color photographs, line drawings, charts, hardcover, 8 1/2" x 11" inches
The first ballistic missIle in its use during WWII.
Published 1997, 148 pages, 80 photographs, sofTcover, 11" X 8.3"
One of the true land-marks of flight, this book covers its limited yet devastating use during WWII.
Schiffer Military History Series
Published 1997, 48 pages, 80 black & white photographs, softcover, 11" x 8.3"
Photo study showing the post-World War II use, and redesign of the German V1 by the Allies. Also shows the air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles it helped develop.
Published 2000, 48 pages,80 B&W photographs, softcover, 8.5" x 11"
As with all the other books in the Flight Craft range, whilst published primarily with the scale aircraft modeller in mind, it is hoped that those readers who might perhaps describe themselves as 'occasional' modellers, or even simply aviation enthusiasts
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was the US Navy’s first battle-worthy, purpose-built aircraft carrier. Her crew, already accustomed to wartime conditions by maintaining Neutrality Patrols during 1941 in the Atlantic, quickly adapted to the Pacific Theater,...........
Published October 2022, 144 pages, 360 black & white photographs, hardcover, 9" x 9"
The nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Nimitz is the oldest carrier in the US fleet. Commissioned in 1975, CVN-68 is named after famed navy admiral Chester Nimitz and has been at the front line of many naval operations in its 40+ years of service.
USS Lexington (CV-16), a member of the famed Essex class of carriers that made up the backbone of the US Navy’s carrier force in WWII, served its nation from WWII into the 1990s. With almost a half-million arrested landings recorded, arguably more naval a
USS Intrepid, the "Fighting I," was one of America’s longest-serving aircraft carriers. Launched during WWII, Decommissioned after WWII, Intrepid was recommissioned in 1955 and designated as an attack carrier (CVA), and later an antisubmarine carrier.
USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle’s raiders in the first US strike on Japan in May 1942, was the third and last Yorktown-class aircraft carrier completed. Serving the US N
Though it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy's USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took part in every major action of the Pacific War, from the Doolittle Raid to the battles of Midway, Santa Cruz,
USAS 1st Pursuit Group: Osprey Aviation Elite Units #28 softcover ++SALE++ *NSI*
Published 2008, 128 pages, softcover, black & white photographs, 42 colour profiles / planform diagrams 6 1/4" x 9 3/4" (inches)
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This pictorial history of the USAF Weapons School based at Nellis AFB, Nevada, features over 200 color images of the aircraft flown by the eighteen squadrons of the Weapons School from 1992 to the present. The aircraft photos are organized by Weapons Scho
Presented here is the most complete photo collection of U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantoms and F-105 Thunderchiefs credited with aerial victories during the Vietnam era...………...
Compiled from official source documents this book covers the entire period of the USAAF, pre-war and post-war, and throughout World War II, up to the fomation of the independent U.S. Air Force in 1947. Described are many hitherto unknown facts about the U
The US Navy’s fleet of aircraft carriers are at the heart of global American military force. With nuclear-powered oceanic range, complements of nearly 5,000 crew, and typically carrying more than 70 combat aircraft, US carriers can remain on station for m
U.S. Navy Phantoms: Atlantic / Pacific Fleet Units: 1960-2004: Ultimate F-4 Phantom II Collection: Volume 3 hardcover
Published 2010, 160 pages, hardcover, colour photographs and profiles, A4 Format 8 1/4" x 11 3/4" inches
This is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber out of Dunkeswell and Upottery, England during World War II.