Air Forces & Warfare

Seven minutes past midnight on 9 March 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited ...

In 1955, the Vulcan B.Mk2 was proposed and a new wing modification was designed to take advantage of the more powerful Olympus engines and a new st...

As the war began to turn against Germany, the Luftwaffe was forced to defend the Reich against increasingly overwhelming numbers of Allied fighters...

The General Dynamics F-111 was one of aviation history's most promising planes when it came out in the early 1960s. Despite a rocky service career,...

This second of two volumes continues the P-38 story by focusing on the later, mass-produced models of this historic fighterP-38J through P-38M. Eac...

The Douglas Dauntless was the US Navy's frontline dive-bomber in the early days of WWII. Even after the larger and more powerful Helldiver joined t...

The Avro Lancaster was the Royal Air Force's main four-engine bomber in World War II. Its superb design, overall performance, and load-carrying cap...

For 100 years, the world's oldest independent air force, the RAF, forged a distinguished record in military air operations from the First World War...

Air Commodore John Langer's career has been eventful to say the least. During the Second World War he flew gliders in India in preparation for airb...

At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay ...

Vulcan: God of Fire is a historical account of Britains nuclear deterrent force, the development of atomic/thermonuclear weapons and the bombers. I...

At the time of its introduction into service, the F-111 was a revolutionary aircraft and was, without doubt, extremely popular. Capable of deliveri...

Design work on the Skyraider began at the behest of the US Navy late in WWII. Production began in 1946, and the type made its combat debut in the h...