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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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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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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

SMI Library, No. 12 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with USAAF - in the MTO

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437112, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 133 illus.

Not for sale in Europe! North American P-51 Mustang, famed for its service in the US Army Air Force as a long-rage escort fighter over western Europe, was no less successful in the other three major combat areas of World War Two: the Mediterranean,...

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Biography & Memoires

Stirling to Essen The Godmanchester Stirling: A Bomber Command Story of Courage and Tragedy

Leivers Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780993415289, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 illus.

On 11 April 1942, a stricken Short Stirling Royal Air Force bomber crashes into fields to the east of Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, England. Hours earlier the commitment and skill of the crew had been tested to the limit confronting the formidable...

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Aviation

Slybirds A Photographic Odyssey of the 353rd Fighter Group During the Second World War

Cross Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780993415265, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2017
208 pp., 21x27.5 cm, 450 illus.

The distinctive black and yellow chequered markings of the 353rd Fighter Group, the "Slybirds", made them one of the USAAF 'Mighty' 8th Air Force's most colourful fighter groups. Flying P-47D Thunderbolts and later P-51D Mustangs the 353rd's appearan...

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Technology & Engineering

Sailplane Design Example Design - Calculation Example - Structural Dimensioning

Pajno Vittorio

ISBN: PB: 9788875652579, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2016
316 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.

A book nearly all photographic with an English text, dealing with military fighting aircrafts this time, also analyzing the use of fighters in the immediate after war. Each photo has a technical and descriptional dossier. A review of 406 photos of ma...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Soviet Autogyros 1929-1942

Maslov Mikhail

ISBN: PB: 9781910294659, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 186 black&white and colour photos, profiles

The material presented in this book describes the history of the development, testing and limited operations of early Soviet autogyros. As in the rest of the world, autogyros appeared in the Soviet Union in a period of full exploration of the skies b...

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SMI Library, No. 11 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with the USAAF - European Theater of Operations

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596681, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 131 black&white photos, 14 colour photos, 11 colour profiles of the 12 throws

Not for sale in Poland! The North American P-51 Mustang powered by the British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin/Packard engine was, quite simply, the best long-range escort fighter of the World War Two era. Entering service in November 1943, it curtaile...

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SMI Library, No. 10 Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (Tomahawk/Kittyhawk)

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596315, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 115 black&white photos, 6 colour photos, 18 colour profiles of the 23 throws

Not for sale in Poland! Curtiss P-40, known to Americans as Warhawk, and to their allies of the British Commonwealth as Tomahawk and Kittyhawk, fought on nearly all fronts of the Second World War, serving with the American, British, Australian, New...

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SMI Library, No. 09 Grumman F6F Hellcat, Volume I

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596056, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
96 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 135 photos, 5 colour photos, 4 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Grumman F6F Hellcat was one of the best fighter aircraft of the World War Two era and the most effective fighter of the US Navy. There is no doubt that Hellcats won complete air superiority for the Americans over the vast ar...

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