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Aviation

Supersonic The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde

Azerrad Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9783791384092, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
192 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stylishly illustrated book looks back at the glamour of Concorde air travel and is as sleek and elegant as the aircraft it celebrates. When the first commercial Concordes zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s, crossing th...

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Aviation

Forgotten Heroes Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512684, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
464 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white and colour photos, 40 tables

Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces – including the Air Force – prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their oppone...

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Technology & Engineering

Sailplane Design A Guide for Students and Designers, from Drafting to Flight Test

Pajno Vittorio

ISBN: PB: 9788875650926, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
480 pp., 24x17 cm, 200 colour illus.

The book, enterely in English, gives constructors and designers all the necessary notions for building a sailplane. The volume starts with a project phase, passing then to aerodynamic and stability. The Author explains it all with a series of formula...

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Aviation

Biography & Memoires

After Germanwings The Life of an Airline Pilot

Chialastri Bartocci

ISBN: PB: 9788875654115, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
218 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.

The Germanwings airline disaster, on 24 March 2015, has shaken the public opinion worldwide, since the pilot deliberately crashed his aircraft full of passengers into the French Alps. An analysis of the Germanwings crash is the starting point for the...

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Aviation

Military

Chaco Air War 1932-35 The First Modern Air War in Latin America

Sapienza Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781911512967, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 illus.

The Chaco War was probably the first "modern" conflict in Latin America where military aviation was widely used in all roles. Bolivia, as the reader will find out, had a very powerful military air force, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Par...

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Military

101st Airborne in Normandy

Buffetaut Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781612005232, Casemate, February 2018
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 illus.

101st Airborne Division was activated in August 1942 in Louisiana, and its first combat mission was Operation Overlord. On D-Day – June 6, 1944 – 101st and 82nd Airborne dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the landings, tasked with captu...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

EMB-312 Tucano Brazil's Turboprop Success Story

Moralez Zeitoun, Paulo Joao

ISBN: PB: 9780997309232, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, February 2018
256 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Harpia Publishing is proud to announce the launch of a new title for 2017, EMB-312 Tucano: Brazil's turboprop success story, set to become the definitive English-language reference work on this revolutionary Latin American aerospace product. Written...

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Aviation

Military

Gerhard Fieseler The Man Behind the Storch

Holden Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9781911512745, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
324 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos

The Fieseler Storch is the most famous slow-speed aircraft of the Second World War. A remarkably versatile reconnaissance plane, as well as a Nazi showpiece and diplomatic gift – and even, in post-war British hands, a tool in helicopter design – it w...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Carrier Aviation in the 21st Century Aircraft Carriers and Their Units in Detail

Newdick Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780997309225, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, February 2018
256 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

The modern aircraft carrier is without doubt one of the most exciting and hazardous operating environments in the field of warfare. The "flattop" is a symbol of global military power without parallel, and it remains a capability beyond reach of all b...

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Military

Aviation

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 The Air War on 22 June 1941 - The Battle for Stalin's Baltic Region

Timin Mikhail

ISBN: HB: 9781911512561, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
528 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 500 black&white photos, 28 tables, 14 maps, 111 colour illus.

This unique work is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the condition of the air forces of the Red Army prior to the Nazi invasion of 22 June 1941. The author describes in detail the composition and the capabilities of the Soviet avi...

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