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Rocket Boys
David Baker
Rocket Boys is a tale of the generation of test pilots flying experimental aircraft powered by rocket motors during the period from 1945 to the mid-1970s. It is not a technical description of the aircraft they flew but the narrative of the men who built the machines and the pilots who took to the air to achieve unprecedented speeds and altitudes.
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V-Bombers (Paperback)
Dr Tony Redding
Much has been written about the V-bombers – the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan – but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain’s small force of subsonic bombers have retaliated following a Soviet attack? Would they have succeeded in visiting thermonuclear catastrophe on their Soviet targets? V-Bombers: Britain’s Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War is the first detailed account of the operational capability and credibility of Britain’s airborne nuclear deterrent during the peak years of the Cold War.
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Fleet Air Arm Boys Volume Two (Paperback)
Steve Bond
Following on from the success of volume one, this second volume covers every fixed-wing aircraft type flown from carriers in the strike, anti-submarine warfare and the vital airborne early warning roles; from Scimitars to Hunters, Buccaneers to Skyraiders and many more, plus an extensive fleet of land-based aircraft.
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The Spitfire with Nine Lives
Air Marshal G.A. 'Black' Robertson
Shortly after TE566 was delivered to the RAF, it was one of several Spitfires gifted to Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War. Sold to Israel in 1948, it was left to rot. After passing through several pairs of hands, the aircraft was rebuilt once again by Colin Wills and Tom Gilbert and converted to a two-seater to fly once more.
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Mastering the Cold War Jets
George Robertson and Alan Munro
These thought-provoking first-hand accounts come from two friends, George Robertson and Alan Munro, who joined the RAF together on the same day in 1963, went through basic and advanced flying training together and then followed two parallel but different careers, offering two different perspectives on the main RAF front-line roles in the Cold War.
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Storming with Norman
Jeremy John Witts
Les Hendry
This book concentrates on the air campaign that enabled the ‘100-Hour’ land campaign of the Gulf War and the Royal Air Force’s part in it. It is a gathering of personal recollections from one of the many unit commanders involved. Lacking the benefits of hindsight, it is an honest attempt to ‘tell it how it was’.
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RAF Boys in the Middle East
Steve Bond
RAF Boys in the Middle East will present the reader with a varied collection of stories from over 40 air and ground crew covering a number of the locations, aircraft types and units which served throughout the Middle East, supported by explanatory text and original photographs. A step back in time to honour those veterans.
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Hurricane R4118 Revisited (signed)
Peter Vacher
Twelve years since the amazing account of Peter Vacher’s discovery in India was originally published, Grub Street is thrilled to bring readers the updated story of Hurricane R4118.
Since the restoration of this magnificent aircraft to flight in 2004, Peter Vacher continued to research its history, and more stories of R4118’s origins are told, including the extraordinary tale of how this aircraft shot down a friendly Whitley bomber before it was assigned to a RAF squadron.
With brand new photography and sources, including wartime letters from Bunny Currant, this book is essential reading for all Hurricane enthusiasts.
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