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  • Pickle Barrel and Mushroom
    Robert Underhill
    America entered WWII with minimal air power: few fighter planes and less than three dozen four-engine bombers. Yet the nation had unmatchable advantages with its enormous industrial capacity, men and women ready to meet every need, and scientists at work on atomic theories. Armed forces swelled, the most remarkable growth being in the Army Air Corps.Allied strategists adopted a...
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    12,94 €

  • Jack Bell's War
    Marcus Fielding
    On 20 December 2017 John ‘Jack’ Bell will celebrate his 100th birthday; a great achievement for any person but very special when that person was seriously wounded in the Second World War and survived over three years in Italian and German Prisoner of War camps.Even at this senior age Jack maintains his parade ground posture, dresses smartly and has a razor sharp mind. He looks ...
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    31,82 €

  • Lockheed Model L-200 Convoy Fighter
    Jared A Zichek
    This book presents the original proposal for the Lockheed Model L-200 Convoy Fighter of 1950, which led to the XFV-1 Salmon turboprop tailsitter naval aircraft. It was one of five submissions to the US Navy's Convoy Fighter competition, which called for a high performance turboprop VTOL fighter to protect convoy vessels from attack by enemy aircraft. The original L-200 desi...
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    19,16 €

  • A Warrior’s Sky
    James Norman Hall / John MacGavock Grider
    The experiences of two American pilots in the Great WarWhen the First World War broke out, volunteers from many nations of the free world rushed to join the French in their struggle against the invading Hun. These were the first days of combat in the air, so a number of adventurous young Americans were eager to earn their wings and fight in the skies above the Western Front. Th...
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    28,50 €

  • A Warrior’s Sky
    James Norman Hall / John MacGavock Grider
    The experiences of two American pilots in the Great WarWhen the First World War broke out, volunteers from many nations of the free world rushed to join the French in their struggle against the invading Hun. These were the first days of combat in the air, so a number of adventurous young Americans were eager to earn their wings and fight in the skies above the Western Front. Th...
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    19,55 €

  • To So Few - The Verdict
    Cap Parlier
    The Verdict is the fifth book of Cap Parlier’s epic To So Few series of historical novels.The Battle of Britain has been raged in the skies above Southeast England for nearly two months, and the Germans sought air superiority in preparation for and in support of their planned cross-Channel invasion – code-named Operation SEALION.  They only obstacle to the continued success and...
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    15,13 €

  • The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told
    Col. Robert Barr Smith / Laurence J Yadon / Laurence J. Yadon / Laurence JYadon / Robert Barr Col. Smith / Robert Barr ColSmith
    In thirty-five chapters, The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told covers many of the leading American and British Commonwealth fighter aces of WW I and II, together with a few bomber crews whose gallantry made a substantial contribution to the end of WW II. Other nations had their aces, but this book concentrates on American and Commonwealth pilots. These aviators were chosen no...
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    16,24 €

  • Convair Class VF Convoy Fighter
    Jared A Zichek
    This book presents the original proposal for the Convair Class VF Convoy Fighter of 1950, which led to the XFY-1 Pogo turboprop tailsitter naval aircraft. It was one of five submissions to the US Navy's Convoy Fighter competition, which called for a single-seat high performance fighter designed to protect convoy vessels from attack by enemy aircraft, and for vertical unassi...
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    23,95 €

  • The Art of Peace
    Robert Moriarty
    Bob Moriarty's The Art of Peace is on one level an artfully composed autobiography recounting the coming of age of a young man who was to become the youngest Naval Aviator and Marine pilot in the Vietnam era. But it also accomplishes what perhaps no other book on the topic even considers - tackling how to avoid the same mistakes in the future. How can we look at things from...
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    19,14 €

  • Circle It, Aviation Facts, Large Print, Word Search, Puzzle Book
    Lowry Global Media LLC / Mark Schumacher
    Do you love Aviation, then your just found the right book!!!You already really like word searches, but most books are virtually the same with just lists of words. There must be something more, and now there is; in our books you can read interesting facts, the bold words within the text can be found in the puzzle on the opposite page. No more boring lists of words™. This book co...
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    17,13 €

  • SHOT DOWN
    Steve Snyder
    Winner of 20 national book awards, SHOT DOWN is set within the framework of World War II in Europe and recounts the dramatic experiences of each member of a ten man B-17 bomber crew after their plane, piloted by the author's father, was knocked out of the sky by German fighters over the French/Belgian border on February 8,1944.Some men died. Some were captured and became pr...
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    15,13 €

  • American Gripen
    David Archibald
    In place of the long-delayed, heavy and expensive F-35, the U. S. military has a better alternative, the Saab Gripen multi-role fighter aircraft. The F-35 is the world's largest weapons program, but it has attracted little in-depth analysis to date, apart from the Pentagon Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports which, year after year, point out the aircraft'...
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    20,03 €

  • D’Orcy’s Airship Manual
    Ladislas Emile D'Orcy / Ladislas Emile D’Orcy
    Baron Ladislas Emile D’Orcy was born in Gratz, Austria in 1887 and raised in Paris. His barony is part of the Austro-Hungarian aristocratic families. With such privilege comes a fine education, and Ladislas was educated in Hungary and Italy, after which he traveled extensively as a young man throughout Europe, the Balkans, India and the Far East.As a writer, D’Orcy was precise,...
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    20,01 €

  • Carrier Pilot
    Norman Hanson
    ‘It has everything a war memoir should have’ LEN DEIGHTON ‘OF ALL THE AIRCRAFT I HAD EVER SEEN, THESE WERE THE MOST WICKED-LOOKING BASTARDS. THE CORSAIR LOOKED TRULY VICIOUS …’ In 1942 Norman Hanson learnt to fly the Royal Navy’s newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young...
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    17,87 €

  • To So Few - Explosion
    Cap Parlier
    Explosion is the third book of Cap Parlier’s To So Few series of historical novels.  Cap weaves an intriguing story tapestry with the personal experiences of the young pilots of Fighter Command, Royal Air Force, as well as the vital decisions of His Majesty’s Government, as they walk a very fine line in their defense of Great Britain.  Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister a...
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    21,14 €

  • Allied Air War and Urban Memory
    Jörg Arnold
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    149,23 €

  • Warnings Unheeded
    Andy Brown
    Mass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not without warning.On 20 June 1994, a vengeance-seeking gunman opened fire in an Air Force hospital. Despite warnings from his roommates and co-workers. Despite the efforts of mental-health doctors. A sociopath had slipped through the cracks.Four da...
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    16,69 €

  • 3 Presidents, 2 Accidents
    Paul Blake Smith
    3 Presidents, 2 Acciidents picks up where MO41: The Bombshell Before Rowell left off, exploring the commonly held belief that the United States federall government engaged in a massive cover-up about outer space aliens visitng the Earth; a cover-up perpeterated by a series of United States presidents and other high ranking goverment officials at any cost, no matter who had to d...
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    15,31 €

  • The Shadow Tiger
    Barbara L Evenson / William C McDonald III
    Born to FlyChina’s wide-open skies were perfect… if you didn’t mind typhoons, sand storms,  blizzards, uncharted mountains and  Japanese Zeros hunting you.Billy McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama, had an adventurous and dangerous career as a pilot in the Golden Age of Flight, and into World War II. He jumped from military cadet to wingman in Chennault’s famed aerobatic flying grou...
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    59,92 €

  • To So Few -The Trial
    Cap Parlier
    The Trial is the fourth book of Cap Parlier’s To So Few series of historical novels.  Young, American, volunteer pilot Brian Drummond and his British buddy Jonathan Kensington had been with No.609 Squadron for only six months, when the Spitfire fighter squadron moved south to join the foreboding fight.  The Trial takes the young pilots of Fighter Command through August and Sept...
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    15,62 €

  • Fighters of the Sky
    Robert H. Reece / Robert HReece / William Muir Russel
    Life and death in the clouds above the Western Front This unique Leonaur edition brings together for the first time several associated accounts of interest to all students of aerial warfare during the First World War. The first concerns the activities of ‘the Bedouin Squadron’, a unit comprised of aviators brought together from all over the globe who joined the RFC. The squadro...
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    27,62 €

  • Fighters of the Sky
    Robert H. Reece / Robert HReece / William Muir Russel
    Life and death in the clouds above the Western Front This unique Leonaur edition brings together for the first time several associated accounts of interest to all students of aerial warfare during the First World War. The first concerns the activities of ‘the Bedouin Squadron’, a unit comprised of aviators brought together from all over the globe who joined the RFC. The squadro...
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    17,52 €

  • The Allied Air War and Urban Memory
    Jörg Arnold
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    43,60 €

  • Pilot of Fortune
    Ted Beaudoin
    NEW EDITION! REVISED AND EXPANDED! From barnstormer to bush flyer to airline pilot, wartime ferry pilot and airborne firefighter, no job was too big, too small or too hazardous for William Floyd Sheldon Luck. He ferried Gold Rush miners to distant claims in the Yukon, then carried hookers to visit the miners. He delivered unarmed aircraft across the Atlantic in World War II and...
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    29,98 €

  • Pilot of Fortune
    Ted Beaudoin
    NEW EDITION! REVISED AND EXPANDED! From barnstormer to bush flyer to airline pilot, wartime ferry pilot and airborne firefighter, no job was too big, too small or too hazardous for William Floyd Sheldon Luck. He ferried Gold Rush miners to distant claims in the Yukon, then carried hookers to visit the miners. He delivered unarmed aircraft across the Atlantic in World War II and...
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    15,66 €

  • Vietnam War U.S. Army Helicopter Names
    John Brennan
    The Vietnam War spawned over 4,000 personalized helicopter names and artwork devised by Army crewmen and pilots. Referenced here are 914 of those helicopter names, revised and updated, with supplemental data included: unit, serial #, crew, time period, 41 b/w photos, and info sources. ...
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    26,44 €

  • Flight Lessons 3
    James A Albright
    This is volume three of a five volume collection that chronicles the author's journey from novice pilot to professional pilot, while adding technical lessons learned along the way.  The author has a following through his website, www.code7700.com, which receives nearly 2 million hits every month.  The website is used by airline, business, corporate, and military pilots for ...
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    26,93 €

  • Planes on Film
    Colin M Barron
    One of the most durable genres in cinema, the aviation film has captivated audiences for decades with tales of heroism, bravery and overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds. Some of these movies have become national icons, achieving critical and commercial success when first released in cinemas and still attracting new audiences today.But what are the stories that lie behind th...
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    15,65 €

  • Flying and Other Stories from the Old and Bold
    John Daly
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    14,31 €

  • The Shadow Tiger
    Barbara L Evenson / William C McDonald III
    Billy McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama, had an adventurous and dangerous career as a pilot in the Golden Age of Flight, and into World War II.  He jumped from military cadet to wingman in Chennault’s famed aerobatic flying group Three Men on a Flying Trapeze. In China, he moved from instructor for the Chinese Air Force to combat pilot flying Chennault’s legendary Hawk 75 Special...
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    49,15 €


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