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Adapted from the 55th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series held in 2021, Flight Culture and the Human Experience sheds new light on the myriad ways aviation has transformed ideas, cultures, an……続きを見る

He was a legend in the cockpit and an iconoclast in the halls of power. John Boyd, a fighter pilot who never saw combat, waged a relentless intellectual war against the military establishment he ser……続きを見る

An illustrated study of the oft-overlooked engagements between the iconic F4F Wildcat and Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's 6M2-N 'Rufe' floatplane during the Solomon Islands campaign. A number of……続きを見る

Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable swing-winged Tornado GR1 provided Britains strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 198……続きを見る

Fully illustrated, this study explores the technology, roles, and combat performance of Coalition airpower in the biggest air campaign of the early 21st century. In 2003, a US-led Coalition invaded ……続きを見る

An illustrated account of the development and action-packed service history of the Jaguar attack jet, featuring first-hand accounts from the pilots that flew it into combat. Developed as a joint ven……続きを見る

First one-volume history covering Australian airmen in World War II 続きを見る

From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start of WW2, monoplane fighters were replacing bi-planes ……続きを見る

Michael Napier describes the naval air power deployed by NATO, Warsaw Pact and neutral countries throughout the Cold War. In 1949, an Iron Curtain was drawn across Europe, and the Cold War that ensu……続きを見る

Winner of the Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award Flying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the ……続きを見る

Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021. US a……続きを見る

The Vickers Wellington was one of very few aircraft types to have been in production and frontline service throughout World War II, and more than 10,000 Wellingtons were built in the period. They to……続きを見る

Trenchard Brat. Flying Spanner. Left Hand Seat. Nicknames abound in aviation. But not many get to be called them all, especially when theyve started life with an aversion to school and a stammer thr……続きを見る

A fully illustrated history of the Royal Air Force while on operations, publishing to mark the centenary of its foundation in World War I. The world's first independent air force, the Royal Air Forc……続きを見る

Former RAF Tornado pilot Michael Napier chronicles the action-packed history of the Harrier GR 7/9, and its missions in West Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan over a 14-year perio……続きを見る

When the Gulf Crisis of 1990 was triggered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the RAF responded by sending Tornado F 3 fighters to Saudi Arabia to help defend the country against further aggression. T……続きを見る

"...a praiseworthy examination of the evolution of the Soviet air force throughout the Cold War." ー Journal of Military History At the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s the Soviet Union possessed s……続きを見る

Lock your shoulder harness and hang on tight to Wings of Blue, four hair-raising stories of jungle aviation from the author of Memories of an Emerald World! Based on the author's years as a counterd……続きを見る

This book examines the evolution of airpower and specifically the growth and proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs). While most existing literature examines either the law or ethics of RP……続きを見る

From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives ……続きを見る

The helicopter came on the scene too late to play other than a minor role in the Second World War but by the Korean conflict the Bell H-13 Sioux, OH-23 Raven, and Sikorsky H–19 Chickasaw were in ser……続きを見る

This volume focuses on the little known official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944. The detailed document chronicled the experiences ……続きを見る

With one hundred and sixty photographs, maps, and illustrations, Michael E. Haskew's The Airborne in World War II is an accessible account of remarkable men and the battles that they fought. D-Day, ……続きを見る

A thrilling, funny, poignant memoir of the author's first year as a U.S. Air Force pilot stationed in Panama in the early 1990s. From his introduction to the C-27 Spartan and the mischievous charact……続きを見る

Although New Guinea's Thunderbolt pilots faced several different types of enemy aircraft in capricious tropical conditions, by far their most common adversary was the Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa, cod……続きを見る

After the huge advances made in the early months of the Pacific war, it was in remote New Guinea where the advance of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) A6M Zero-sen fighters was first halted……続きを見る

Blue Moon over Cuba is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Most books on the Cuban Missile Crisis tell the story using t……続きを見る

From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War. The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented pea……続きを見る

From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the air war over Korea. The Korean War holds a unique place in aviation history. It saw the first large-scale……続きを見る

The magical, lyrical, hysterical flying adventure from the author of Memories of an Emerald World and The Jungle Express! When a sleep-deprived American Air Force pilot in Panama has a vision of tro……続きを見る