Air Forces & Warfare

This pocket manual focusing on the most famous aircraft of all time presents an accessible collection of fascinating historical documents which giv...

During the Second World War the need for an on-board technical expert to join the Bomber Crews evolved. The various systems on the latest 4-engined...

The Grumman J2F Duck formed the backbone of Americas over water utility squadrons from 1934 until beyond WWII, setting various aviation records dur...

When de Havilland proposed, in 1938, an unarmed bomber constructed almost entirely from wood, few would have thought it could become one of the mos...

The F/A-18 evolved from Northrops YF-17 in the late 1970s. Production aircraft reached the Navy in May 1980 and the Marine Corps two years later. M...

Incredibly, the first B-52 flew on 15 April 1952. During the Cold War Strategic Air Commands fleet of B-52s were at a moments readiness to make a o...

Designed to improve on the F-4 Phantoms air combat performance, the Tomcat entered service in 1974 with the US Navy, replacing the F-4 Phantom II. ...

On April 5, 1945, more than sixty black officers of the U.S. Army Air Forces were arrested for entering a whites-only club at Freeman Field, Indian...

More than 2000 women in the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union flew military airplanes in organized units during World War II, ye...

In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66 Squadrons commanding officer, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked ten of his pilots to r...

The F-104 Starfighter was one of the most fascinating aircraft of the Cold War era in Europe. Several European air forces operated the aircraft, wi...

Successful aircraft manufacturer de Havilland began design development of the Vampire in 1941, to assess the feasibility of jet propulsion as a mea...

This is the story of my experiences with the medium bomber designated by the Army as a B-26 and named by the British as the Marauder. The book incl...