Aerospace & Aviation Technology

For all our nostalgia about the Golden Age of Air Travel, it was more mythical than we like to think.  As with other forms of transport then, until...

If you have ever wondered how it felt to be in the cockpit  of a BOAC passenger jet in the mid to late 20th century, then Philip Hogge's fact-based...

For all our nostalgia about the Golden Age of Air Travel, it was more mythical than we like to think.  As with other forms of transport then, until...

If the United States couldnt catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kenned...

Duncan Menzies flew with the RAF, the Aeroplane and Armament Evaluation Establishment, and Fairey Aviation in a twenty-five-year flying career, see...

George Errington was a well-known and popular test pilot from 1935 to 1955. His name appeared frequently in aviation magazines of the time and he r...

The Great War Display Team was founded in 1988 and has since gone on to become one of Britains premier display teams, with a wealth of talent...

In 1962, a unique transport aircraft was built from the parts of 27 Boeing B-377 airliners to provide NASA a means of transporting rocket booste...

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shutt...

Alarmstart South completes Patrick Erikssons Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Medit...

This book tells the story of Germany's strategic air offensive against Britain, and how it came to be neutralized. The first Zeppelin attack on Lon...

Designed between 1969 and 1972 and first flown into space in 1981, the NASA Shuttle will have flown almost 140 missions by the time it is retired i...

Following his first three successful books, describing his long career as a military pilot, Mike Brooke completes the story with more tales of test...

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

Mike Brookes successful RAF career had taken him from Cold War Canberra pilot to flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. For h...