During the last century the British aircraft industry created and produced many outstanding airplanes. These aircraft were world leaders in advanced technology, utilizing inventions by British engineers and scientists such as radar, the jet engine, the ejector seat and vertical take-off and landing. This book describes the design-history, development and operational careers of twenty-two legendary military and civil airplanes. Each one has played a significant part in aviation history.
Israel Book Review
During the last century the British aircraft industry created and produced many outstanding airplanes. These aircraft were world leaders in advanced technology, utilizing inventions by British engineers and scientists such as radar, the jet engine, the ejector seat and vertical take-off and landing. This book describes the design-history, development and operational careers of twenty-two legendary military and civil airplanes. Each one has played a significant part in aviation history.
Israel Book Review
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Wargames Illustrated, May 2018
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Wargames Illustrated, May 2018
Reproducing the text of an unpublished report held in the National Archives at Kew (File AIR 41/11), a detailed history of the evolution, organization and operations of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) and in particular the key role it played in identifying and tracking approaching German enemy aircraft during the Second World War. The book complements the earlier ROC histories by T. E. Winslow Forewarned is Forearmed (William Hodge and Company Limited. 1948) and Derek Wood Attack Warning Red (Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Limited. 1976).
Royal Aeronautical Society
Reproducing the text of an unpublished report held in the National Archives at Kew (File AIR 41/11), a detailed history of the evolution, organization and operations of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) and in particular the key role it played in identifying and tracking approaching German enemy aircraft during the Second World War. The book complements the earlier ROC histories by T. E. Winslow Forewarned is Forearmed (William Hodge and Company Limited. 1948) and Derek Wood Attack Warning Red (Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Limited. 1976).
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On Spartan Wings
Rarely has an air force gone into combat as poorly prepared and outgunned as the Royal Hellenic Air Force had to when Mussolini’s Italy dragged Greece into war on 28 October 1940. Without warning, as Italian forces poured over the frontier from Albania, the RHAF’s paltry effective lineup of 128 battleworthy aircraft, most of them obsolete, were… Read more...
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Lifeline in Helmand: RAF Front-Line Air Supply in Afghanistan
Lifeline in Helmand tells the story of the Royal Air Force tactical transport force operating in one of the most dangerous regions in the Afghanistan campaign – Helmand province. The Chinook helicopters of 1310 Flight fly heavy-lift and trooping missions to remote Forward Operating Bases and in direct support of Deliberate Ground Operations. They… Read more...
