"This is a profusely illustrated book, containing over 160 photographs, and is thoroughly recommended for reading and reference."

IPMS Magazine - Issue 1: 2024

Lee Chapman is an excellent photographer and writer who has taken it upon himself to document in photographs many of the historic aircraft
still surviving and flying in the UK.

This volume covers not only “the usual suspects”, that is the Spitfire and Hurricane, but also the trainers and support aircraft which enabled the front-line pilots to gain their skills in the first place. The Bristol Beaufighter is also included with the first example having been delivered in August 1940.

Those of us lucky enough to live in the UK and who are able to visit museums like Old Warden and Duxford will be familiar with many of these individual aircraft; indeed I have photographed
many of them myself; however I have to say that
unless you are as good a photographer as the late Alex Whittaker, the pictures in this book will be better than most of yours! Whilst the text is
necessarily brief, pride of place rightly being given to the superb photographs, it is very informative. Any aeromodeller interested in aircraft of this period should have this book.

Aeromodeller February 2023