Aerospace & Air Transport Industries

With over two million YouTube subscribers, Sam Chui is one of the world's best-known travel and aviation personalities, known for his million-hit v...

Jeff Gray won the Distinguished Flying Medal in command of a Lancaster bomber. After the war he flew the York, Hermes, Stratocruiser, Comet 4, and ...

Conspiracy theories of sabotage, murder and even UFOs flourish around the greatest unsolved mysteries of aviation from the twentieth century. This ...

In a similar style to Comet!: The World's First Jet Airliner and Boeing Group: A History, Graham Simons presents us with a colourful, thoroughly en...

The Olympic Airways story has fascinated Graham M. Simons for many years. This new book represents the culmination of decades spent researching the...

Founded in 1961 as Euravia by British businessman Ted Langton and aviation consultant J.E.D. Walker, at a time of considerable turmoil for the inde...

Seek and Strike - RAF Br ggen in War and Peace is an anecdotal history of the largest RAF station in Germany. Optimised for a new breed of aircraft...

Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represe...

Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond. They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did t...

Scotland has a worldwide reputation for launching some of the greatest ships ever built, but far less is known about our pioneering work on aviatio...

It burst into flames! Its burning, bursting into flames and its and its falling on the mooring mast and this is terrible. This is one of the wor...

The industry known as general aviation--encompassing all flying outside of the military and commercial airlines--dates from the early days of po...

The moon landing remains the most astonishing and impressive accomplishment of manned space travel to this day. In July 1969, just eight years afte...

Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of todays ai...

Norfolk and Suffolk are bursting with aviation heritage, having played key roles in military aviation through the two world wars and beyond. The ob...

The Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce: record-breaking racing motorist; speedboat racer; pioneering aviator and businesswoman remarkable achievements fo...

In the spirit of books like Waiter Rant and Kitchen Confidential, blogger and flight attendant Heather Poole gives the inside scoop on how to be th...

Airwork Ltd/Airwork Services, now owned by VT group plc, has a long and distinguished history. It played an important role in defence support servi...

Tony Ryan was one of the greatest Irishmen of the twentieth century. Ingenious, driven and sometimes reckless, his sheer spirit and adventurousne...

Silver City Airways rose from obscure beginnings to pioneer and become world famous for its cross-Channel car ferry service. When the only alternat...

Former FAA chief counsel and senior aviation policy official Mark Gerchick unravels the unseen forces and little-known facts that have reshaped our...

Its hard to imagine a history of British engineering without Rolls-Royce: there would be no Silver Ghost, no Merlin for the Spitfire, no Alcock and...

English for Cabin Crew is an essential course for those preparing for a career as a cabin crew member. It is equally suitable for those already wor...

In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense. If current...

Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain. ...

Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship progra...

The story of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, forerunner of the Worlds premier aeronautical research establishment wherein were designed ...

The third in Guy Halford-MacLeods series on the history of independent airlines in Britain after the Second World War, battling against ever-changi...

In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense. If current...

Short Brothers was established in 1908, the first British aircraft manufacturer, with the company moving to Rochester during the early years of the...

In this poignant narrative of her life and career as an air traveler, the author states: The first victims of `aerotoxic syndrome' are crews, maint...

It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill' Armstrong. Autair itse...

Sky Tales the much anticipated follow up to Captain Lim Khoy Hings first bestseller Life in the Skies is a new fascinating collection of tips, ad...

The British & Colonial Aeroplane Company was established in 1910 at Filton on a site that is now an Airbus design and engineering centre. BAE S...

What happened to MH370? How did Amelia Earhart disappear? When have quick-thinking pilots averted catastrophe and kept hundreds of people alive? An...

Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite gr...