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  • The History of RAF Millom
    John Nixon
    The History of RAF Millom Covering the airfields' wartime service from 1941 and brief reoccupation of the station in 1953, to its eventual conversion into HMP Haverigg. Extensively illustrated with over 260 photographs and including over 50 first-hand accounts of life at RAF Millom, Cumbria, England. This extremely accessible history will engage a broad readership and prov...
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    34,17 €

  • Flight Path
    Jonathan Scott Gration
    This memoir covers the following topics and more:  Secretary Clinton’s and Scott Gration’s use of email accounts while in the State department, international affairs, technology development, world history, military aviation, and Africa.  There is plenty in this book to keep you turning the pages.  Please visit the book’s website at:  www.scottgration.com.Former President Carter...
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    11,51 €

  • Northrop
    Fred Anderson / Fred R. Anderson
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    47,29 €

  • Without Precedent
    Owen Zupp
    An ordinary man. An extraordinary life.‘Without Precedent’ recounts the life of commando and fighter pilot, Phillip Zupp. One man who served in two very different wars.From humble rural beginnings, surrounded by drought and The Great Depression, he forged an incredible life with little more than courage and tenacity. During World War Two, he saw combat on the ground in New Guin...
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    27,11 €

  • Without Precedent
    Owen Zupp
    An ordinary man. An extraordinary life. ‘Without Precedent’ recounts the life of commando and fighter pilot, Phillip Zupp. One man who served in two very different wars. From humble rural beginnings, surrounded by drought and The Great Depression, he forged an incredible life with little more than courage and tenacity. During World War Two, he saw combat on the ground in New ...
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    29,14 €

  • TRW 1901-2001
    Timothy C Jacobson
    This Resource Publication edition of TRW 1901-2001: A Tradition of Innovation, by Timothy C. Jacobsen is a digital facsimile reprint of the 2001 edition published by Northrop Grumman Corp. ...
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    35,01 €

  • War With the R. F. C.
    George F. Campbell / George FCampbell / Pat O'Brien / Pat O’Brien
    Two outstanding accounts of high adventure by WWI fighter pilotsThis unique Leonaur edition offers two personal accounts by pilots with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. George Campbell came from a renowned Scottish military family and by the time he joined the R. F. C., following a bayonet wound received at Neuve Chapelle in 1915, while serving with the H. L. ...
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    37,50 €

  • War With the R. F. C.
    George F. Campbell / George FCampbell / Pat O'Brien / Pat O’Brien
    Two outstanding accounts of high adventure by WWI fighter pilotsThis unique Leonaur edition offers two personal accounts by pilots with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. George Campbell came from a renowned Scottish military family and by the time he joined the R. F. C., following a bayonet wound received at Neuve Chapelle in 1915, while serving with the H. L. ...
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    25,18 €

  • Measuring Military Power
    Joshua M. Epstein / Joshua MEpstein
    Joshua M. Epstein argues that prevailing assumptions about the East- West balance of power rest on erroneous measures of military strength. He develops a method for analyzing military capabilities and applies that general procedure to the Soviet tactical air threat to NATO.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to ag...
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    183,65 €

  • Flying the Knife Edge
    Matt McLaughlin
    Silver Medal Winner at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, NY, USA.Sometimes it’s not about the destination...it’s about the journey.‘Flying the Knife Edge’ is the story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a pilot in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s.After an untimely exit from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Matt McLaughlin took a leap into...
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    38,41 €

  • CREW CHIEF, 'be he ne’er so vile'
    William 'Buzz' Barron / William Buzz Barron
    'Buzz' Barron’s Crew Chief, be he ne’er so vile, provides more than a glimpse into what it took to maintain, service, launch, and recover the workhorse of the air war up North. His story is more than just what it was like to be a crew chief; it is about growing up, it is about life. He presents his story with great detail in the vernacular of his native language - Texan! His...
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    44,04 €

  • From POW to Blue Angel
    Jim Armstrong
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    30,80 €

  • My Life With The C-130 Hercules
    Ross Holdeman
    Ross Holdeman’s career with Lockheed’s aeronautical engineering division led him to adventures in over 100 countries supporting 'Herky Birds' and improving aviation safety by investigating what went wrong when they crashed. My Life with the C-130 Hercules chronicles those adventures from the early days of the C-130 Hercules development in 1951 though 1984.The Lockheed C-130 He...
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    26,55 €

  • Flight to Arras
    Antoine De Saint-Exupéry / Lewis Galantière
    2015 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. 'Flight to Arras' is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condense...
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    15,61 €

  • Northrop N-63 Convoy Fighter
    Jared A Zichek
    The Northrop N-63 was an unconventional VTOL turboprop tailsitter aircraft proposal submitted to the US Navy's convoy fighter competition of 1950, which ultimately produced the Convair XFY-1 Pogo and Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon. It was a single-seat high performance fighter designed to protect convoy vessels from attack by enemy aircraft, and for vertical unassisted takeoff from,...
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    24,75 €

  • Martin Model 262 Convoy Fighter
    Jared A Zichek
    The Martin Model 262 was an unconventional turboprop VTOL aircraft proposal submitted to the US Navy's convoy fighter competition of 1950, which ultimately produced the Convair XFY-1 Pogo and Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon. It was a swept-wing aircraft with triple vertical tails powered by an Allison XT-40-A-8 turboprop engine driving 16 ft contra-rotating propellers. The launch and...
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    18,05 €

  • THE LION AND THE CONDOR
    Yahoshuah Israel
    Col. John C. Robinson was the first African American aviator licensed in the US, the first African American aviation instructor in America. He taught the first African American women pilots in America and the first Ethiopia women pilots. It was his idea that gave birth to the famous Tuskegee Airmen of WWII fame. Known as the 'Brown Condor of Ethiopia,' he became an internation...
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    37,64 €

  • Nor Good Red Herring
    William G Morland
    Following a life-long interest in aviation and mid-20th century military history, and having being spurred on in recent years by the listening projects run by BBC radio and the personal histories recorded for archive at the Imperial War Museum, William Morland was keen to learn more about the details of his father's service history and his unlikely participation in the Korean W...
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    48,78 €

  • The 90th & 91st Aero Squadrons
    George C. Kenney / George CKenney / Horace Moss Guilbert / Leland M. Carver / Leland MCarver
    The U. S Army’s ’eyes in the sky’ on the Western FrontThe enormous loss of life among European populations in the First World War created a sense of national sacrifice which is memorialised in virtually every city, town and village. So it is understandable why Europeans have viewed the Great War as their conflict to the detriment of the contribution made by the United States of...
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    25,64 €

  • The 90th & 91st Aero Squadrons
    George C. Kenney / George CKenney / Horace Moss Guilbert / Leland M. Carver / Leland MCarver
    The U. S Army’s ’eyes in the sky’ on the Western FrontThe enormous loss of life among European populations in the First World War created a sense of national sacrifice which is memorialised in virtually every city, town and village. So it is understandable why Europeans have viewed the Great War as their conflict to the detriment of the contribution made by the United States of...
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    16,69 €

  • Goodyear GA-28A/B Convoy Fighter
    Jared A Zichek
    A detailed overview of the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation GA-28A/B, one of the submissions to the US Navy convoy fighter competition of 1950, which ultimately produced the Convair XFY-1 and Lockheed XFV-1 VTOL aircraft. The GA-28A was a three-quarter scale prototype of the convoy fighter, while the GA-28B was the full scale design armed with four 20 mm cannon. Both were VTOL tai...
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    24,20 €

  • Through the Eyes of a Tiger
    Susan Clotfelter Jimison
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    15,75 €

  • Vietnam War U. S. Army Helicopter Names, Volume 2
    John Brennan
    The Vietnam War spawned over 3,800 personalized helicopter names & artwork devised by Army crewmen and and pilots. Reference here are 630 of those helicopter names with supplemental data included: unit, serial #, crew, time period, photos, and info sources. 3 ...
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    26,55 €

  • The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964, Second Edition
    Alan L. Gropman / Alan LGropman
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    28,05 €

  • Korean American Pioneer Aviators
    Edward T Chang / Edward T. Chang / Edward TChang / Woo Sung Han
    Korean American Pioneer Aviators: The Willows Airmen is the untold story of the brave Korean men who took to the skies more than twenty years before the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II. The tale of the Willows Aviation School connects Korean, American, and Korean American aviation history. The book also correctly identifies the first Korean aviator and ties the origin of...
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    129,45 €

  • The Price They Paid
    Michael Putzel
    The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever-and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended. ...
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    27,97 €

  • Air Commodore M. Zafar Masud - A Pioneer of the Pakistan Air Force
    Nasim Yousaf
    'The late Air Commodore M. Zafar Masud helped to mould the Pakistan Air Force into an effective fighting machine. Pakistan will remember him as one who made a great contribution towards the development of the Pakistan Air Force...' - Air Marshal (Retd.) Asghar Khan 'An exceptional fighter pilot... Masud...was widely respected and regarded as a probable future air force chief....
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    32,25 €

  • Flight Lessons 1
    James A Albright
    Flight Lessons is a collection of hundreds of professional pilot procedures and techniques. Volume One, Basic Flight, includes the first 30 such lessons as they were learned by Eddie, the author’s alter ego, in story form. Each chapter concludes with the lesson on graph paper, updated for the aviation world of today.Lessons include: Aerodynamic force, air properties, angle of...
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    26,93 €

  • SMOKE FOR BREAKFAST
    Brian H. Settles / Brian HSettles
    Retired airline Captain and author, Brian H. Settles, gives readers of aviation sagas a true page-turner memoir in SMOKE FOR BREAKFAST: A Vietnam Combat Pilot’s Story. Readers will feel, smell and taste the nonstop adventure as if they are riding on the shoulders of this Nebraska orphan who became a fighter pilot to prove he was good enough. Steamy tales of failures at faithful...
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    23,61 €

  • The Lafayette Flying Corps-During the First World War
    Volume one of a two volume history of the famous American volunteer squadron of the First World WarThere can be few who have heard of the Lafayette Flying Corps who are unaware of its history. It was, of course, comprised of the American pilots who volunteered to fight for France in the air and it included the famous Lafayette Escadrille. More than 200 American pilots completed...
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    38,24 €