Of Comets and Queens: an autobiography

SMALLPIECE, Basil

Airlife Publishing

Physical description; 272 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm. Notes; Originally published: London : Chatto and Windus, 1971. Bibliography: p. 260-264. _ Includes index. Originally published, London , Chatto and Windus, 1971. Subjects; Schneider, Jacques. Coupe d'aviation maritime Jacques Schneider (Contest) - History. Schneider Trophy - History. Airplane racing. Seaplanes - Competitions - Coupe d'aviation maritime Jacques Schneider (Contest), to 1931. Genre; Illustrated.

Schneider Trophy Race

BARKER, Ralph

The Shuttleworth Collection: The Official Guide

OGILVY, David

Acclaimed worldwide as the most detailed and knowledgeable text about Aerobatics. This book takes the pilot from the basic maneuvers step by step through to the exacting standards required at World Championship level. Primarily for pilots, the book also makes light reading for enthusiasts and spectators.

Aerobatics

History

Williams, Neil

Military

Throughout the working day, a constant stream of airliners queue to land or depart from Europe's premier airport. This book offers the aircraft enthusiast a look into Heathrow's chaotic world, containing colour pictures of the planes, and specially commissioned ramp and operations photographs.

London Heathrow : The World's Busiest International Airport

Bullock, Freddy

Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press; 1St Edition edition (2000)

Korean atrocity! forgotten war crimes 1950-1953

Politics & Social Sciences

CHINNERY, Philip D.

Social Sciences

This collection of both well-known and previously unpublished World War II incidents highlights the truism, plans often go awry in war. The margin can be narrow between negligence, incompetence, and simple error that results in tragedy. While miscalculations by those involved in the international game of power politics can bring setbacks to nations, in war mistakes by generals and battlefield commanders cost lives. The author, a veteran of the British air force, recounts more than sixty cases of costly battle errors or blunders and asks the question: was the tragedy a matter of incompetence, bad planning, or simply bad luck? He tells the story of how nature conspired against a squadron of Stukas that dove into the earth after mistaking ground fog for clouds and how an unanticipated low tide at Tarawa left the U.S. Marine landing force exposed to prolonged and deadly enemy fire. The infamous sinking of the USS Indianapolis and Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess's bizarre 1941 defection are also included in this survey of futility and sacrifice.

Fatal Decisions: Errors and Blunders in World War II

Blandford, Edmund

This work gives an account of the actions involving men of the British and American Air Forces flying against their Axis counterparts. It highlights: when Britain and the Royal Air Force stood alone; Pearl Harbour; and the offensives of the American and British Air Forces in Europe and the Pacific.

Fight for the Air : Allied Air Battles in World War II

Turner, John Frayn

Take a journey through time and through the camera lens. This book is packed full of emotive color shots of many classic American aeroplanes designed and built between 1916 and 1982. From the Curtiss Jenny to the Cessna Skywagon, you will meet such delights as the Beech Staggerwing, the Grumman Goose, the Stearman PT-17 and the Lockheed Constellation. Thirty-seven different types are included and amazingly they are still flying - and that's where most are photographed, in their natural element - the air.

Vintage Aircraft over America

Engineering & Transportation

Geoff Jones

Chuck Stewart

Transportation

In Tempest over Europe Roland Beamont describes the introduction of the RAF's first dedicated fighter bomber, the Typhoon in 1942 and its successor the Tempest in 1944. As a former test pilot at Hawkers, he has firsthand accounts of the Typhoon test flights. He commanded the first Typhoon squadron to specialize in fighter ground attacks, and he led the Tempests in the D-Day operations and the flying bomb battle.

Tempest over Europe (Airlife Classics)

BEAMONT, Roland

Europe

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