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SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE WORKSHOP MANUAL 1936 ONWARDS £17.99 A unique perspective on what it takes to own, restore and operate a Spitfire, as well as a wonderful insight into the engineering and construction of this remarkable aeroplane. Presented mainly in colour, this highly detailed and attractively designed book is based around the restoration of the Spitfire Mk XVI at RAF Coningsby. Hardbound (Price & Blackah) 160 pages, 150 colour & 30 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: AVRO LANCASTER WORKSHOP MANUAL £17.99 An insight into restoring, servicing and flying Britain's legendary World War 2 bomber  - A unique perspective on what it takes to restore and operate a Lancaster, as well as a wonderful insight into the engineering and construction of this remarkable aeroplane. Presented mainly in colour, this highly detailed and attractively designed book is based primarily around the major overhaul of the Battle of Britain Flight Lancaster at RAF Coningsby. Hardbound (Cotter & Blackah) 160 pages, 150 colour & 30 b&w illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: DEVELOPMENT OF JET & TURBINE AERO ENGINES £12.99 4th Edition - Explains clearly and accessibly the differences between gas-turbine, jet, rocket, ramjet and helicopter turboshaft aero engines, and traces their histories from the early days to the complex units used in today's airliners and military jets. This new edition includes Boeing's 787 and Rolls-Royce's Trent 1000. Softbound (Gunston) 264 pages, 250 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: DEVELOPMENT OF PISTON AERO ENGINES £12.99 2nd Edition - The theory, history, development and application of piston aero engines, from those used by the Wright Brothers for their pioneering flights right up to the small engines fitted to microlights today.  Softbound (Gunston) 244 pages, 200 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: JOHN DERRY - BRITAINS FIRST SUPERSONIC PILOT £19.99 On 6 September 1948, John Derry became the first pilot in Britain to fly faster than the speed of sound. Exactly four years later he died tragically as his experimental prototype DH110 jet broke up in the air at the Farnborough Air Show, in full view of 120,000 spectators. In this authoritative biography the authors trace Derry's life story and the part he played in a thrilling era of aviation. They reveal how he became known for his brilliance as a test pilot, but was also loved and respected for his personal qualities. (Rivas and Bullen) Hardbound - 224 pages with 32 black and white illustrations  Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: RED ARROWS £19.00 In 2004, Britain's official aerobatic team flew its 40th display season, in 2005 it celebrated its 40th birthday and in 2006 the team flew its 4000th display. This book takes a lateral look at the team and how it works, from briefing and take off through aerobatic display to post-flight analysis; and from arduous winter training through the summer air show calendar.  Behind the scenes to see the pilots during their arduous training schedules and to meet the 'Blues' — the RAF's crack maintenance and technical team who keep the Arrows' BAE Hawk trainers in peak flying fitness. (Baker)  Hardbound - 260 pages with 159 colour photographs and some diagrams. Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: SCHNEIDER TROPHY TO SPITFIRE £25.00 A comprehensive account of the entire design career of legendary aircraft designer Reginald J Mitchell, renowned as the creator of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter he was also responsible for the sleek record-breaking seaplane aircraft that won outright the Schneider Trophy in 1931. (Shelton) Hardbound 256 pages with 100 black and white and 16 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: FASTER THAN SOUND - 2ND EDITION £25.00 The Story of Supersonic Flight - This is the thrilling story of how test pilots in the USA and UK first pierced the sound barrier in the late 1940s. Much has happened since then, and as recently as 2003 thousands of fare-paying passengers were routinely enjoying intercontinental air travel at speeds of up to Mach 2. The author describes in accessible style the rules and technologies of supersonic flight, ongoing developments in engine and airframe technology, the age of supersonic passenger transports like Concorde, and advances in supersonic fighter and bomber design. (Gunston) Hardbound 256 pages with 120 colour and 120 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CONCORDE - A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY £30.00 Concorde is the world's most famous passenger transport aircraft and an icon of 20th century design. When British Airways and Air France withdrew their Concordes from service in 2003 it marked the end of a unique era in supersonic air travel. For this large-format full-colour tribute to Concorde, Jonathan Falconer has scoured a wide range of private collections, company archives and media libraries in order to compile a stunning collection of colour photographs that portray Concorde from its first flights in 1969 to its swansong in 2003. Hardbound (Falconer) 256 pages with 200 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: YESTERDAY WE WERE IN AMERICA - ALCOCK & BROWN £19.99 Alcock and Brown - First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop - On 14 June 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown took off from Newfoundland in their open-cockpit Vickers Vimy converted bomber to attempt a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic. Some 16 hours later they landed at Derrygimla in Connemara, Ireland, to become national heroes. Navigating blind for most of the way, they had flown almost 1,900 miles, the longest distance ever flown by man. In researching one of the most significant flights in history, Brendan Lynch has drawn on the written records of Alcock and Brown, and interviewed the last surviving witness of their dramatic arrival in Ireland and the adventurer Steve Fossett, who recreated the flight in 2005. Hardbound (Lynch) 256 pages with 32 black and white illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: ALLISON ENGINE CATALOG 1915-2007 £29.99 Details all products from about 1915 up to 1945 and then the products from the aircraft engine/aerospace side of the company up to 2007. Engines developed and other work performed during the past 12 years were done as part of Rolls-Royce so the Allison name is no longer used except to denote the Roll-Royce Heritage Trust - Allson branch. 292 pages with 500 black and white images.  Softbound (Leonard) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: SPACE CONQUEST £25.00 The complete history of manned spaceflight - The greatest-ever feat of science and technology in the history of mankind occurred when the USA's Apollo 11 landed men on the surface of the moon. The great ideological struggle of the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union was defined by the space race - a race won by the Americans. This stunningly illustrated story of manned spaceflight covers the Soviet and American space programmes, Neil Armstrong's historic 'one small step for man' in July 1969, and continues into the era of space stations and reusable spacecraft like the Shuttle. Hardbound (Dreer) 208 pages with 309 colour and 84 black and white images Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: CLASSIC AIRCRAFT £8.99 Aircraft have revolutionized the way we live. Billions of passengers take to the air every year and around the world airlines operate almost 80,000 flights daily. Before the revolution, flying was, as often as not, a personal struggle in which a lone pilot and his single- engine aircraft tangled with the elements, the limits of his own endurance and the uncertainties of technology. Many of the endeavours of the early aviation pioneers ended in heroic failure. Hardbound (Havers) 128 pages with 120 colour illustrations Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL HANDBOOK £16.99 The complete guide for all aviation and air band enthusiasts - This is a reincarnation of the Air Band Radio Handbook, an essential reference book first published over 20 years ago and a stronger seller throughout its eight editions. The new title reflects not just the extent of overhaul and updating that has occurred for this new version, but also the fact that a larger proportion of the audience these days comprises air traffic controllers themselves (both trainees and fully qualified) as well as the traditional air band listening enthusiast. The expert author's accessible and comprehensive text explains the intricacies of air traffic control and its jargon, enabling the reader to locate and interpret what is actually going on in the airways overhead. 208 pages with 60 colour illustrations, hardbound (Smith) DUE JANUARY 2010 Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: AIRBUS - THE COMPLETE STORY £30.00 First published in 1988, Bill Gunston's book simply told the story of how the original Airbus A300B was conceived, how the international Airbus company was formed and how it finally grew to become an aerospace giant. This fully revised and updated second edition includes all the prolific single-aisle aircraft that have followed the A320, the great new wide-bodies (the A330 and four-engine A340), the enormous A380, the totally different A400M military air lifter and, not least, the extraordinary gestation of the A350. Top aviation author Bill Gunston's 'inside story' is a tale without parallel of Europe's 'Boeing-beater'. 288 pages with 200 colour illustrations, hardbound (Gunston)  Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: BOEING - THE COMPLETE STORY £25.00 Founded in 1916, Boeing Commercial Airplanes is the premier aircraft builder in the USA and one of the biggest aerospace constructors in the world. To the man in the street Boeing is inextricably linked with some of the greatest names in aircraft design and construction: the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, the 707 (the USA's first commercial jet airliner), the revolutionary 747 'jumbo jet' and the massive B-52 bomber. This comprehensive and handsomely illustrated history of the 'plane builder from Seattle' includes details of every aircraft it has ever built, together with data charts and informative text boxes. 256 pages with 260 colour and 250 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Pelletier) DUE MARCH 2010    Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: FLIGHTS OF TERROR (2nd Edition) £25.00 Aerial hijack and sabotage since 1930 - Terrorism is a real threat to aviation. The thought of a ticking bomb hidden in a suitcase, or a gun or knife-wielding assailant commandeering a commercial flight, is enough to scare even the most seasoned air traveller. Since the first edition of this ground-breaking book was published in 1997, much new evidence has come to light on a number of the hijackings described, and more have taken place since. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Gero includes the latest information on historic hijackings in all parts of the globe, and a new chapter on the cataclysmic events of 9/11. 192 pages with 20 colour and 90 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Gero) NEW Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: BOUNCING BOMB MAN-The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis £25.00 Barnes Wallis is best known as the 'boffin' behind the famous bouncing bomb used by 617 Squadron to breach the Ruhr dams in 1943, but his work covers a far wider canvas. It ranges from airships, through novel aircraft structures and special weapons, to long-range supersonic aircraft, and an extensive patent portfolio. This book describes the huge breadth of Wallis's work, showing how his genius brought totally new ideas into these various fields, and revealing the science and engineering expertise that he deployed to make them work. Extensive use of illustrations - both line artwork and photographs - demonstrates the concepts involved. 288 pages with 125 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Murray) NEW Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: DE HAVILLAND TIGER MOTH MANUAL 1931-1945 All Marks £17.99 The de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane is an iconic and instantly recognisable aircraft. It is also one of a handful of planes that attracts the widest possible recognition outside the specialist group. Of nearly 10,000 built, it is thought that more than 1,000 Tiger Moths still survive over six decades on, and over half remain airworthy. They are also affordable classic aircraft at £40-50,000 for an airworthy example. The author takes a close look at the construction of the Tiger Moth, acquiring and restoring an example, owning and flying one, and the engineer's view of keeping it all running and airworthy. 160 pages with 215 colour and 75 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Slater) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: MESSERSCHMITT BF109 MANUAL £17.99 The Luftwaffe's Messerschmitt Bf109 single-seat fighter was the main combat adversary of the RAF's Hurricanes and Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. This sister volume to the acclaimed Spitfire Manual covers the history of the Bf109, restoration to flight, the views of owners, pilots and engineers, and operating and servicing insights. Data boxes cover Bf109 facts and figures, plus interviews with Luftwaffe pilots and modern-day owner-pilots. Illustrated with a mix of specially commissioned colour and archive photographs, the Bf109 Manual also includes illustrations from Luftwaffe official wartime servicing manuals, and coverage of restoration projects in the UK and overseas. 160 pages with 150 colour and 100 black and white images, hardbound (Blackah & Lowe) NEW Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: NO NEED TO DIE-American Flyers in RAF Bomber Comma £19.99 This is the first book to be written about a group of remarkable men who left the wealth and comfort of America before the Second World War to volunteer for the most dangerous trade in the world. While the everlasting popularity of books and films about Bomber Command is self-evident, few people know there were any Americans flying with RAF Bomber Command. We follow the life stories and flying careers of 21 Americans who fought in the air war over Europe with the RAF's two premier Bomber Command squadrons - 9 and 617. Of these men of free will, 15 were killed in action. 272 pages with 40 black and white illustrations, hardbound (Thorburn) Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: THE WORLD'S TOP 500 AIRPORTS £30.00 Equally loved and loathed by the public and the media, airports are crucial to the operation of passenger and airfreight services worldwide. The World's Top 500 Airports is the leading guide on the subject. It contains a brief history of each airport, details of runways and terminals, annual passenger numbers and aircraft movements. For the 'Top 250' airports there is a map, details of the main user airlines, and details of whether traffic is scheduled, chartered, passenger or freight. Freight traffic figures and ranking for freight are also given. Data and world rankings are supplied by the US-based Airports Council International. 416 pages with 250 colour and 250 black and white images, hardbound (Wragg) NEW Quantity: 12345678910 Buy Now: