Company Histories

Price: £16.00

Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev was born in 1888, in north-west Russia, the sixth child of a family of seven. He was first a teacher of arithmetic and geometry, then entered university ...
Full Details.....

Price: £17.50

Following the success of the acclaimed OKB MiG, Midland Publishing and its Aerofax imprint are pleased to present OKB Sukhoi. Like its predecessor, this is a definitive history of one of ...
Full Details.....

Price: £40.00

Professor Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) was indisputably one of the most significant of Germany's aeronautical designer engineers, and the aviation world is indebted to him for a wide variety of forward-looking developments ...
Full Details.....

Price: £12.00

With historic names such as Hawker, de Havilland, Supermarine, Avro, Handley Page and Vickers at its core, the British aviation industry has a long history that stretches right back ...
Full Details.....

Price: £12.00

Out of the 'Thunder Factory' came some of the most adventurous and successful warplane designs in the history of flight. From the outstanding P-47 Thunderbolt of World War Two, through the ...
Full Details.....

Price: £30.00

After leaving school John Silvester had a brief spell in the hydraulic engineering industry before joining Percival Aircraft Ltd in 1937 as a draughtsman at their Luton factory. When the company ...
Full Details.....

Price: £16.00

This full story of de Havilland marks the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Geoffrey's first successful flight. It is probably the most complete history so far written of any organization in the ...
Full Details.....

Price: £15.00

This 1948 directory of the members and associate members of the SBAC gives a fascinating snapshot of the British aviation industry in the immediate post war years. All major aircraft constructors ...
Full Details.....

Price: £75.00

by Raymond H. Brandly Author published (USA) 2nd edn. 1988 213pp profusely illustrated. 22x28 card covers, lightly marked on front cover, bottom corner of rear cover turned, otherwise fine. ...
Full Details.....

Price: £11.00

The year 1985 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first flight on 30 July 1910 of a Bristol designed and Bristol built aeroplane — Bristol Biplane ("boxkite") No. 7 at Larkhill ...
Full Details.....

Price: £12.00

The story of A. V. Roe & Company Limited (Avro) started within a short time of man's conquest of the air when very few believed in the potential of the flying ...
Full Details.....

Price: £8.00

by Stephen Skinner Published by Tempus Publishing 2003 1st edition. 128pp profusely illustrated, appendix, bibliography. 16x23 card covers, slightly worn. A concise history of Marshall Aerospace.
Full Details.....

Price: £20.00

by Michael Donne Published by Short Bros/Good Books 1993 144pp profusely illustrated in b/w & col. 26x24 landscape, fine, including d/j. Well illustrated company history.
Full Details.....

Price: £14.00

by A. R. Adams Published by British Aircraft Corporation Ltd. 1976 1st edition. 220pp illustrated, index. 14x22 very good, including d/j. The story of the guided weapons division of British Aircraft ...
Full Details.....

Price: £20.00

by Michael Donne Published by Muller 1981 1st edition. 157pp profusely illustrated, some colour, index, bibliography. 28x22 landscape near fine, including d/j. Well illustrated history of Rolls Royce with obvious ...
Full Details.....

Price: £12.00

by Jay Miller Published by Aerofax/Midland Publishing 1995 revised edition, profusely illustrated, some colour, index. 23x31 softcover, mint. A history of the Skunk works and it's products.
Full Details.....

Price: £17.50

Author unknown Published by Streiffert and Co. (Sweden) no date C.1987 167pp profusely illustrated, some colour. 22x28 very good, including d/j. English language history of Saab-Scania, including aircraft, cars and trucks ...
Full Details.....

Price: £13.00

by M. J. Hardy Published by Arms and Armour Press 1987 1st edition. profusely illustrated, index, appendix, bibliography. 19x25 very good, including d/j. An illustrated history of Grumman aircraft. ...
Full Details.....