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VTOL Military Research Aircraft

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Britain's BAe Harrier, which has been in service for nearly twenty years, and the Soviet Union's Yak-38 Forger are the world's only successful operational Vertical Take-Off & Landing aircraft. These, together ...
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Fighters of The Fifties

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The beginning of the true jet age, the 1950s are already a decade which many aircraft enthusiasts can barely remember, if at all; and a decade of nostalgia for those who ...
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Flying the Frontiers

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When WW1 broke out in 1914, it was reported that France had 1,400 aircraft, Germany 1,000, Great Britain 400 and the United States 23. By establishing the National Advisory Committee for ...
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Belfast: The Story of Short's Big Lifter

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The Short SC.5 Belfast freighters were unique. Only ten aircraft were manufactured, and they were the only aircraft type wholly allotted to one squadron. They spent their ten years military service ...
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From Spitfire to Eurofighter

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Roy Boot is one of the most important figures in post-war aeronautical design, and the period he covers in this book is a long and varied one in the history of ...
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Combat Aircraft Prototypes Since 1945

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In 1965, amid much fury in the RAF and the British aerospace industry, TSR-2 - described as one of the most potent and advanced weapon systems in the world - was ...
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Supersonic Flight

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In 1947, a remarkable group of individuals achieved what many thought was impossible: breaking the 'sound barrier'. Because of their work, supersonic flight became a reality. Today, the military aircrews who ...
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