Air Forces & Warfare

It was supposed to be just a training flight. The two Soviet-manufactured MiG 21s, each with two practice bombs and four air-to-ground rockets, wer...

All of a sudden there was the rush of an immense shadow coming towards him at terrific speed. It was the ground reaching up to gather him. The date...

''A military adventure, written with expertise...a tale of initiative,skill and courage, of pushing beyond the rules.'' The SpectatorApril 1982. Ar...

Dancing the Skies charts the flying career of Group Captain David Roome, who joined the Royal Air Force aged 18 as a pilot and flew the supersonic ...

Rendezvous with history, treading the land of France again... On 6 June 1944 there were nearly 500 French pilots and ground crew taking part in one...

Aerial warfare which has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of beco...

A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von St...

'Stay low, stay on track, and stay alive' was the motto of the RAF's most secret Station, Tempsford. That's exactly what Geoffrey Rothwell did DFC...

No one could doubt that Frederick Warren Merriam was one of the earliest and most important of Britain's aviation pioneers. Indeed, he taught many ...

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSE...

The aim of those who created the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) was clear to provide a world-class facility to serve as a point for re...

Stanisaw Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace and the first Allied fighter ace of World War II. His combat career began on the wars very first da...

Although seen as a replacement for the A6M Zero-sen carrier-based fighter, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden was actually designed as a land-based naval in...

Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? The Pointblank Directive answers this question using extensive new research that creates a portrait of perhaps th...