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OKB Sukhoi

OKB Sukhoi

£17.50









A history of the sukhoi design bureau and it's aircraft.
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The History of German Aviation: Willy Messerschmitt, Pioneer of Aviation Design

The History of German Aviation: Willy Messerschmitt, Pioneer of Aviation Design

£40.00








Definitive work on the man, his company and it's aircraft
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Sky Guardians

Sky Guardians

£14.00








Britain's air defences from 1918, through World War Two and into the Cold War and the mid nineties.
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Komet: The Messerschmitt 163

Komet: The Messerschmitt 163

£14.00








The story of the Komet rocket fighter told using eye witness accounts, official records and over 200 photographs.
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Aces High: The War in The Air over The Western Front 1914-18

Aces High: The War in The Air over The Western Front 1914-18

£8.50









The men and machines of the first air war. Well illustrated.
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Jets

Aviation Books | Military | 1939 to 1945 | Aircraft Types |  Jets

Komet The Messerschmitt 163

Price: £14.00


The concept of the flying wing has been around since man first dreamed of duplicating the flight of birds. The Komet was the fruition of these dreams. Reaction-powered, capable of reaching ...
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The Jet Pioneers

Price: £9.00


It is fifty years since the first jet aircraft flew, and in that half century it has shrunk the world to an extent inconceivable in the 1930s and 1940s. The Jet ...
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Rocket Fighter

Price: £9.00


The flight testing of the world's first operational rocket-powered interceptor. the Me163, is one of the most dramatic chapters of aviation history. The story is told by Mano Ziegler, one of ...
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Top Secret Bird

Price: £13.00


Watching the space shuttle's return from orbit today, few realise that the first steps for its mission were taken in Germany over 45 years ago. The only basic difference between the ...
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Messerschmitt Me262

Price: £20.00


The Messerschmitt Me 262 was the World's first turbojet combat aircraft, entering service in 1944. Its origins lay in a technical requirement issued by the German Air Ministry in 1938. German ...
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Me262 Stormbird Rising

Price: £20.00


In wartime Germany, Stormbird or Silver were the official code-names given to the legendary Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational turbojet fighter. Fifty years on, the anniversary of the first ...
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Me262 Volume 1

Price: £26.00


Early on the morning of 18 July 1942, a twenty seven year old test pilot took off from a rain-dampened airfield at Leipheim in southern Germany at the controls of the ...
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World War Two Fighting Jets

Price: £12.50


During the desperate closing stages of the Second World War, the Germans brought into action several new aircraft types - the jet-propelled Messerschmitt Me262 Sturmvogel and Arado Ar234 Blitz and the ...
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